For many families, dinner is basically the only "reunion meal" of the day. Of course, this "reunion meal" must be healthy. It can't be too late or too extravagant. Below, I will summarize a few bad habits of eating dinner.
Habit 1: Eating dinner too late
Being hungry for a long time makes people crave food. When they get home, they eat without any choice. At this time, it is easy to eat too much for dinner. Combined with the exhaustion of the day, there is very little or even no exercise after dinner. Some people simply wash up and go to bed.
Most of the food is still in the stomach at this time, forcing the stomach to work overtime, increasing the burden on the digestive system. Over time, the digestive function of the intestines and stomach will weaken, leading to gastrointestinal diseases and may also affect sleep.
4-5 hours after a meal is the peak period for calcium excretion in the human body. If dinner is eaten too late, when the peak period of calcium excretion arrives, people are already asleep, and urine cannot be excreted in time. A large amount of calcium in the urine will be deposited, and over time, it may form stones in the urinary system.
Habit 2: Dinner is too extravagant
"I have been hungry all day, so I will treat myself to a good meal at night." Or gathering with friends, company entertainment, and other situations. Usually, meat is the main course, vegetables are insufficient, and desserts are accompanied by chatting and drinking for a few hours.
The intake of high energy, high protein, high fat, high sugar, and high salt increases the burden on the stomach and intestines, and can easily cause obesity due to energy surplus.
Obesity is a risk factor for many diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and gout. Long-term consumption of such a diet may even increase the risk of malignant tumors in the body.
The intake of high-fat and high-calorie dinner can also increase cholesterol levels, induce atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Eating too well and too full for dinner, combined with low activity at night, also accelerates the conversion of fat and can easily lead to fatty liver.
Habit 3: Skipping dinner
If we skip dinner, when the glycogen stored in our body is depleted, it is easy to experience symptoms such as dizziness and blurred vision due to low blood sugar.
Because of the decrease in blood sugar, people will feel hungry, and the excitability of the brain will also decrease. This will make our reactions slower and our attention unable to focus, thereby affecting normal learning, work, and life.
Of course, occasionally skipping dinner may not have much impact. But if you skip dinner for a long time, because the intake of energy and nutrients cannot meet the needs of the body, it may bring some adverse effects to the body, such as fatigue, lack of energy, deteriorating skin, and osteoporosis.
In addition, long-term skipping of dinner can also disrupt normal gastrointestinal function and may cause problems such as gastritis and gastric ulcers.
