What should I do if I can't sit for a long time, sleep or exercise after eating?

You can sit still and remain relatively still 10- 15 minutes. Because the stomach is digesting at this time, even a slight movement will bring serious vibration to the stomach and affect the digestive process. If you are bored, you can kill time by watching TV and newspapers.

After food enters the gastrointestinal tract, it reaches the absorption peak within about 1-2 hours after meals, and can be completely emptied in 4-5 hours. After a person has just had enough to eat, it should be a period when the gastrointestinal function needs to be vigorous. Lying down at this time will slow down the blood circulation, and there are still many undigested foods in the stomach. The spleen and stomach can't get enough energy to work, and the spleen and stomach can't get rest. Over time, stomach diseases will form. In the long run, it is easy to cause the disorder of human digestive function and malnutrition. For some people, it will also cause nutrient accumulation and lead to obesity.

Things you can't do after dinner?

Eating fruit after meals has always been considered to be beneficial to clearing the mouth. But in fact, if you eat fruit immediately after a meal, it will not only affect your digestive function, but also get fat!

Drinking strong tea after meals contains a lot of tannic acid, which is easy to combine with protein in the body to form a precipitate, which affects the absorption of protein by the human body. The special substances contained in tea will also hinder the absorption of iron by human body.

Drinking water after meals, if a small amount of water, has little effect on the gastrointestinal tract. If you drink plenty of water immediately, it will definitely weaken the digestive ability of gastric juice over time and cause gastrointestinal diseases. At the same time, Qingcaijun does not recommend drinking soda after meals, because the carbon dioxide produced in soda enters the stomach, increasing the intragastric pressure, which may lead to acute gastric dilatation.

Lying down after meals is a topic of great concern. The doctor suggested that it is best not to lie down for 2 hours after meals, which is easy to cause gastroesophageal reflux, difficult to digest food and gain weight!

Drinking yogurt after meals is not helpful for digestion. We often say that yogurt helps digestion, and that drinking yogurt can promote the secretion of gastric acid, and the probiotics contained in it can help promote intestinal peristalsis. But yogurt itself has no digestive enzymes and can't really help digestion. Therefore, drinking yogurt after meals will not only fill your stomach, but also be more difficult to digest.