Being pregnant is women’s happiness. Keeping
health during pregnancy is also women’s important thing.
In pregnancy, what should pregnant women
avoid doing after meals?
Do not eat fruits immediately
Most people have the habit of eating a lot
of fruits after meals because they think that it can help colon peristaltic.
However, this is not a scientific way. In reality, after meals, foods move into
stomach and take 1-2 hours to digest and eliminate slowly. If you eat a lot of
fruits after meals, you will make foods be obstructed in stomach. If obstructed
process lasts longer, it can lead to indigestion, cholera and constipation, and
you will have trouble with digestive ability.
Eating
fruits after meals is not a scientific way.
About 20-30 minutes before a meal, you can
eat fruits or drink 1 or 2 glasses of fruit juice to prevent obesity because of
eating too much. Fruits and fruit juice contain a lot of fructose and glucose
sugar that body can absorb quickly. In addition, it also increases
concentration of sugar in blood and reduces feeling of hungry. The raw fiber in
the body can make stomach have feeling of being full. In addition, eating
fruits before meals can reduce demand of fat vegetable and prevent bad effect
of fat stored in the body. Persimmon, camellia, almond and pineapple are fruits
that you cannot eat when you are hungry.
Do not have a bath immediately
Having a bath after eating will affect your
digestive ability skin’s blood vessel is risen, blood circulates strongly,
blood output of digestive system decreases and it will make digestive ability
reduce with a low rate. Hence, you shouldn’t have a bath instantly after eating.
When you are hungry, you shouldn’t have a bath. The reason is that it can make
blood sugar low and you can faint. After eating, you should take a rest in 1
hour and begin to have a bath.
Having
a bath after eating your fill will affect your digestive function.
Do not read book
Reading books or newspapers or thinking
will make blood gather in brain and it will make digestive system’s blood
decrease. As a result, it will have effect on discharging fluid in stomach. And
in a long time, digestive system will not be good, stomach is flatulent and painful.
Reading
books or newspapers will make blood gather in brain and it will make digestive
system’s blood decrease.
Do not drink tea
Many people consider that drinking tea
after eating will make their mouth cavity clean and supports for digestion. In reality,
a large amount of tea will move to stomach that are digesting foods; it will
make digestive fluid that stomach discharges weak and affect digestive process.
Moreover, tea leaves also contain a lot of tannic acid that make protein that
isn’t digested mix with this acid, form condensed matter that is difficult to
digest. And as a result, it will have effect on digesting and absorbing
protein. Especially, tea leaves will cause obstacle for the process of
absorbing iron. After meals, if you drink 15 grams of dry tea leaves that is
made with water, it will make the amount of iron in vegetables absorbed only
with 50%. In a long time, it will affect digestive ability and lead to lacking
in blood and Fe.
Do not exercise strongly
First of all, after eating, your stomach,
liver and pancreas are operating strongly, blood fluid mainly accumulates in
these organs. When you exercise four limbs, you will need more oxygen and need
to be put on a drip to muscles. Therefore, exercising after eating will make
digestive system absorb blood less and it will be harmful to digesting and
absorbing foods.
Moreover, if you exercise strongly, your
stomach will swing because of motive power. As a result, together with food in
stomach, it will make you nauseate, vomit and have bellyache. You need to take
a rest in a while after meals. You can exercise strongly after 2 hours,
exercise normally after 1 hour and exercise lightly after a half of hour of
resting.
