The quality and habits of eating directly affect a person's health. Only by abandoning the following bad habits can you avoid damaging your health, prepare a good physique for the future, and enjoy the pleasures of your later years.
Don't read:
Don't read or watch TV while eating. The body's "distribution" of blood also follows the principle of "more work, more reward." When you read, your brain is in a "working" state, so more blood is allocated to the brain to ensure its "work." During meals, to allow the gastrointestinal system to digest and absorb food better and more fully, blood flows to the gastrointestinal system more than at other times, for 30 to 40 minutes after the meal. This is why many people feel drowsy and want to sleep after eating. Eating while reading or starting to study immediately after a meal is not good for studying and may also lead to insufficient blood supply to the gastrointestinal system due to reading and studying, affecting digestion. Over time, this can lead to gastrointestinal diseases. Similarly, starting to study immediately after a meal is a fruitless endeavor.
Don't talk:
When eating, talk less, and especially avoid discussing unpleasant things. Many parents often ask their children about their studies and exams while eating. When the child answers that their test scores were not good, it often leads to a scolding or criticism from the parents. As a result, the mood of every family member will plummet, their appetite will greatly decrease, leading to a reduction in food intake and gastric juice secretion. Over time, this may cause indigestion and affect the child's normal growth and development.
Don't soak:
Many people like to take a bite of food and then a sip of water (soup), or simply soak the rice in soup. This way of eating is unscientific and not good for your health. Because often eating soaked rice or drinking water (soup) while eating, the food you eat is often swallowed whole, not chewed and digested in the mouth, which greatly increases the burden on the stomach. At the same time, water (soup) can also dilute saliva and digestive juices in the stomach, affecting the digestion of food by the gastrointestinal tract. Over time, this can lead to indigestion and make one prone to stomach diseases. In addition, due to insufficient digestion, the absorption of nutrients from food by the gastrointestinal tract will also be reduced, thus affecting health.
Don't swallow:
After food enters the mouth, it is first mixed with saliva and preliminarily digested, and chewed by the teeth. Large pieces of food become small pieces. Starchy foods such as rice, steamed buns, and noodles are hydrolyzed into dextrin or maltose by the action of salivary enzymes, preparing them to be easily digested and absorbed by the body after entering the gastrointestinal tract. If you wolf down your food during a meal, the time the food stays in the mouth will inevitably be shortened, and it cannot be fully mixed and digested with saliva, nor will large pieces of food receive careful mechanical processing. This not only affects the digestion of food by saliva but also increases the burden on the stomach. In the long run, in addition to the possibility of developing gastrointestinal diseases, it may also affect health due to poor digestion and absorption.