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"After a meal, a hundred paces can lead to ninety-nine lives" was said to be unreliable
"After dinner, walk a hundred steps and you will live to be ninety-nine," a popular health saying among people of all ages, was also confirmed in the Song of Ten Old People and Longevity by Ye Tianshi, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, but this view has been overthrown by experts in digestion.
In fact, there are really a few things after dinner, not good for the body.
Let's see if one of them hits you!
Comments: Wu Jie, Director of Gastroenterology Department of Wuhan Central Hospital, Guo Qiuhui, geriatric expert of Wuhan Sixth Hospital
Take a walk after dinner
People often say, "After a meal, walk a hundred paces, can live ninety-nine."
In modern society, working pressure is great during the day, and taking a walk after dinner has become a "standard" in many people's lives.
Expert comment: after a meal to walk slowly is beneficial to health, fast walk easy to harm digestive function.
Suffers from especially the old people of the disease such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, do not go hastily after the meal, can increase cardiac load otherwise, make heart, brain supply blood insufficiency, appear dizzy, giddy, lack of power, limb hemp etc.
Top2 fruit after meals
A lot of restaurants will be at the end of the guest meal, the end of the fruit, but the net after the fruit is not conducive to health.
The expert comments on: have certain reason.
By eating fruit on an empty stomach, the sugar in the fruit will be absorbed quickly and you will feel less hungry, thus keeping your portions in check.
On the contrary, when the meal just finished eating, eat extra fruit, can increase the burden of the stomach.
It's better to wait two hours after meals.
Drink tea after dinner
A lot of people have the habit of a cup of tea after dinner, do not know when to rise nevertheless, have the argument that the meal before dinner should not drink tea
The expert comments on: drink tea after dinner, also do not hinder health.
Light tea does not contain salt, 2 do not contain sugar, neither will raise blood pressure, also won't cause obesity.
As long as it is not a patient with gastric ptosis, the tea is not too strong and the amount should not be too large.
Take a shower after dinner
There is a popular saying that "don't take a bath after dinner, don't brainwash after wine".
Do not take a bath or wash your hair immediately after eating or drinking to avoid being stimulated and causing disease or danger.
Expert comment: just after the meal, the human digestive system began to work, a lot of blood gathered in the stomach.
If you take a sauna or a bath for a long time at this time, the body is easy to lose water, easy to make blood pressure surge instantly.
Especially in elderly patients, such sudden changes are most likely to increase the likelihood of heart attack and cerebral hemorrhage.
Lie down after meals
As the saying goes, "lie down after a meal, not long half a catty long 42."
Expert comments: people's blood pressure has been reduced after meals, then if immediately sleep, for the general population will affect the digestive function, also easy to gain weight.
For the elderly with vascular sclerosis, it is more likely to cause local insufficiency of blood supply to the brain, or even to induce stroke, which is life-threatening when serious.
Smoking after meals
"A cigarette after a meal is better than a living immortal" is the mantra of smokers. Smoking after a meal would have increased gastrointestinal peristalsis at this time, accelerated blood circulation and the strongest ability to absorb smoke, so harmful substances will enter the blood more easily than usual, and will also increase the risk of tumors.
Expert comment: First choice to quit smoking.
Smoking at any time is not good for your health, it will only overdraw your life.
The tips of 100 steps after dinner, the following small methods, might as well choose a suitable for you to try --
1. General walking method: 60 ~ 90 steps per minute is appropriate, 20 ~ 30 minutes each time, suitable for the elderly suffering from coronary heart disease, hypertension, sequela of cerebral hemorrhage or respiratory diseases.
2. Walk fast: Walk with your head held high and your chest held high. Walk 90 to 120 steps per minute for 30 to 40 minutes each time.
It is suitable for the people who need to reduce fat and the elderly patients in the convalescent stage of gastrointestinal diseases.
3. Abdominal walking method: when walking, two palms rotate to massage the abdomen, massage each step for a week, positive and negative direction alternately.
40 to 60 steps per minute, 5 to 10 minutes each time.
Chronic gastrointestinal disease, kidney disease is especially suitable for the elderly.
4. Easy walking method: after a meal, slowly walk slowly, 5 ~ 10 minutes each time, can relax muscles and bones, level the blood, is beneficial to regulate mood, wake up the brain, enhance memory.
5. Quantitative walking method: that is, according to a specific route, speed and time, to complete the prescribed distance.
When taking a walk, undertake alternately with flat road surface and climbing hill, accomplish combination of speed and slowness, have great benefit to the cardiopulmonary function of exercising old people.
6. Walk backwards: Walk with hands akimbo and knees straight.
First back, then forward to walk 100 steps each, so repeated many times, in order to feel tired is appropriate, helps prevent and cure the elderly lumbago and leg pain, gastrointestinal dysfunction and other diseases.
7. Wing-arm walking method: when walking, both arms with pace rhythm to do a large swing, 60 ~ 90 steps per minute, can enhance the bone joint and chest function, prevention and treatment of scapulohumeral periarthritis, emphysema, chest tightness and chronic bronchitis in the elderly.
