As the pace of life quickens, dinner has almost become the main meal for office workers. Many families have developed a "lifestyle habit" of having a rushed breakfast, a simple or improvised lunch, and a lavish dinner. Some people rarely eat at home after work, starting their daily "social engagements" of eating and drinking for several hours; or, after working late and staying up, they combine dinner with a late-night snack and go to sleep immediately after. These habits are extremely detrimental to health. Medical research shows that our "problematic dinners" pose many potential health risks and are the "main culprit" behind various diseases, and their dangers cannot be ignored...
Around 6 p.m., and preferably no later than 9 p.m. It is best not to eat any solid food after 9 p.m. Additionally, do not go to sleep within four hours after dinner, which allows the food eaten at night to be fully digested.
Points to note when eating dried shrimp for dinner:
Everyone knows that taking calcium supplements before bed is effective, for example, drinking a glass of milk before bed can both promote sleep and supplement calcium.
Everyone also knows that dried shrimp is very rich in calcium. Therefore, some people think that eating dried shrimp before dinner and sleep to supplement calcium must be more effective than milk. In fact, this view is completely wrong. It not only fails to achieve the goal of supplementing calcium but also increases the risk of developing urinary tract stones.
Dried shrimp is nutritious, with a calcium content as high as 991 mg/100g (the recommended daily calcium intake for adults is 800 mg), and is known as the "warehouse of calcium." Dried shrimp also has the effects of stimulating appetite and resolving phlegm. However, it should be noted that precisely because dried shrimp is high in calcium, it should not be eaten at night to avoid causing urinary tract stones. The main component of urinary stones is calcium. The calcium in food, after a portion is absorbed and utilized by the intestinal wall, the excess is excreted entirely through urine. The peak time for calcium excretion in the human body is generally 4 to 5 hours after a meal. If the dinner is too high in calcium, or the dinner time is too late, or even eating dried shrimp before bed, when the peak of calcium excretion arrives, people are already in bed. The urine will then be retained entirely in the urinary tract and cannot be excreted in a timely manner. This way, the calcium content in the urine in the urinary tract continuously increases and deposits, and over time, it is very easy to form urinary stones. Matsushita Hospital in Japan once surveyed 270 urinary stone patients, and 97 of them mostly had dinner after 9 p.m., and 25 had the habit of going to bed right after a late-night snack.
Therefore, calcium supplementation at night should not be too late or in excessive amounts. When choosing calcium-rich foods, try to select those that are easy to digest and absorb. Drinking a glass of milk 1-2 hours before bed is a very good choice.