6 Bad Habits after Meals

Bad Habit One: Having Fruit after Meals

Many People love having fruits after meals, which is a wrong living habit. It needs 1 to 2 hours to digest the food you eat, and if you have the fruit after a meal, the food you eat previously will be blocked and also will make the fruit indigest normally.

Bad Habit Two: Smoking after Meals

The harm of smoking after meals is bigger than that in normal time. This is because blood circulation of the digestive tract that goes through the food increases, and resulting in a substantial absorption of harmful ingredients in cigarettes, and then damaging the liver, brain and heart blood vessels, causing these diseases.

Bad Habit Three: Bathing after Meals

Bathing after a Meal is also a bad habit. In this case, body surface will increase blood flow, gastrointestinal blood flow will be reduced, so that the stomach’s digestive function diminished, and cause indigestion.

Bad Habit Four: Loosening Belt after Meals

Many people feel so full after eating too much that they often loosening their belt, as a matter of fact, this would cause a decline in intra-abdominal pressure and force stomach sag. In a long time, it will suffer from stomach sag.

Bad Habit Five: Walking after Meals

The increase in physical activity affects the gastrointestinal absorption of nutrients. Especially for the elderly, heart dysfunction, atherosclerosis, postprandial decrease in blood pressure occurs more than walking and so on.

Bad Habit Six: Having Strong Tea after Meals

Having strong tea after meals will dilute gastric juice and impact on food digestion. In addition, tea contains large amounts of tannic acid, when having tea after a meal; it will make the stomach form the tannic acid precipitate together with the protein ingestible and impact on protein absorption. Tea also hinder the absorption of iron, this can even lead to long-term iron deficiency anemia.