Is it correct to sit or take a walk after a meal?🏃🏃🏃

Some people say that taking a walk after a meal is a good way to keep your body healthy. However, there are also someone said that exercise should not be carried out after a meal, and it is best to sit or lie down to rest. So which one is the right thing to do after a meal?

Suggested practice:

It is generally believed that in the 20 minutes after a meal, it is best to maintain an upright posture (standing upright, sitting upright). It can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and help digestion.

Why not recommend taking a walk after a meal?

In fact, taking a proper walk after a meal can indeed help relieve the mood and promote digestion. It can be good for the body. But this walk after a meal is not to make you take a walk as soon as possible after having a meal. It is let you to take a walk 20-30 minutes after having a meal. Because the stomach is in a full state just after eating. It often requires blood to run to the stomach and intestines for initial digestion. If you take a walk immediately, blood will be concentrated in your limbs and will cause gastrointestinal activity being delayed. It can easily lead to indigestion.

As walking will affect digestion, is it okay to lie down?

Of course not. When you have just eaten a full meal. The stomach is full of food and the digestive function is in a state of activation. At this time, lying down will affect gastrointestinal peristalsis which is not conducive to food digestion and absorption. In addition, lying down immediately after a meal will increase the pressure in the stomach. It will lead to gastroesophageal reflux disease. It is more likely to suffer from chronic gastric disease in the long term. Moreover, if you fall asleep immediately after a meal, the body's metabolic rate will gradually decrease during sleep. It is easy to convert the calories in the food into fat. It will make you becoming fatter.

All in all, sit upright and rest after a meal is the best way for your health. If the abdominal is uncomfortable after eating full, you can massage your abdomen appropriately. This can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieve the discomfort of abdominal distension, strengthen the digestion, absorption and excretion of food. However, attention must be paid, otherwise it will be counterproductive.

Abdominal massage method:

• Lightly touch the abdomen with the palm of the hand and massage in a clockwise direction with the navel as the center. The force should be moderate, from light to heavy. It will be better as you feel a slight warm in the abdomen.
• When there is a purulent infection of the abdominal skin or acute inflammation of the abdomen (such as enteritis and appendicitis), it should not be massaged the abdomen.

Does drinking tea after a meal will help losing weight?

Some people think that drinking a cup of strong tea after a meal can help eliminate oil, reduce greasy feeling, help digestion and lose weight. But in fact, drinking tea immediately after a meal will obstruct digestion. It inhibits the secretion of gastric and intestinal juices. That affects the body's digestion and absorption of food. It can easily lead to constipation.

Drink yogurt immediately after a meal to help digestion?

Drinking yogurt after a meal also fails to help digestion. Do not drink yogurt immediately after a meal. It is more appropriate to drink it two hours after a meal. It is because when the pH value of human gastric juice is high, the lactic acid bacteria contained in the yogurt will grow fully which is beneficial to health. About two hours after a meal, the gastric juice in the human body has been diluted. The pH value will rise to 3 to 5. It is a better time to drink yogurt. Moreover, yogurt is rich in many nutrients and it is not low in calories (even it is non-fat yogurt). Yogurt itself contains a certain amount of calories. Drinking yogurt after a meal is equivalent to taking in these extra calories. If you drink yogurt after a meal every day, you will become fatter slowly. Therefore, if overweight people or on a diet want to drink yogurt after a meal, the amount of staple food needs to be reduced appropriately.