Can I eat right after exercising?

For our health, we should exercise at least twice a week, which is beneficial to our blood circulation and the discharge of waste from the body. After exercise, we will sweat a lot and the pores all over the body will be open. At this time, we must be very careful not to do things that damage our health. But sometimes we will feel very hungry after exercise, so can we eat right after exercise? Let’s find out with the editor below.

Do not eat immediately after exercise.

1. Drink a glass of water after exercise. If you sweat a lot, add some salt or drink sports drinks. It is best to eat after thirty to forty minutes. Eating too early will not have time to consume fat.

2. It depends on the intensity and amount of exercise. It is generally believed that after strenuous exercise, you should rest for an hour before eating.

Physical exercise can improve the function of the digestive organs, make people happy, increase appetite, and increase the secretion of digestive juices, thereby improving the body's ability to digest and absorb.

However, if you do not pay attention to food hygiene during physical exercise, such as drinking cold boiled water or raw water during exercise, doing strenuous exercise immediately after a meal, or eating immediately after strenuous exercise, it will have an adverse effect on the function of the digestive organs. Over time, it will cause indigestion and chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, you should pay attention to food hygiene during physical exercise.

(1) It is not advisable to drink a lot of water after strenuous exercise. During strenuous exercise, you will sweat a lot, especially in the hot summer, which often makes people feel extra thirsty. Some people only seek momentary pleasure and drink a lot of water immediately after exercise, which is not good for health.

Because the gastrointestinal blood vessels are in a contracted state during exercise and the absorption capacity is reduced, if you drink a lot of water immediately after exercise, water will accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract, making people feel stomach bloating and discomfort. At the same time, some of the water is absorbed into the blood through the stomach and intestines, increasing the circulating blood volume, which adds burden to the heart that should be resting after exercise.

In addition, a large amount of salt is excreted from the body with sweat when sweating, and the fluid in the human body needs to maintain a certain concentration, and there needs to be a certain ratio between water and salt in the body fluid. If you only drink a lot of water after exercise without replenishing salt, it will dilute the salt in the blood. In order to maintain the ion concentration in the body fluid, the human body must excrete "excess" water. The result is that the more water you drink, the more you sweat, the more body fluid you lose, and the more thirsty you become.

Therefore, after exercise, you can rinse your mouth with water to moisten your throat, and then drink a small amount of light salt water. This will not only quench your thirst but also replenish the loss of salt in the body. This is in line with drinking water hygiene.

(2) There should be a certain interval between exercise and meals. After eating, gastrointestinal activity increases, the secretion of digestive juices increases, and the amount of blood needed to digest food also increases. If you perform strenuous exercise immediately at this time, the regulation of nerves and humoral factors will inhibit gastrointestinal activity and the secretion of digestive juices, causing a relatively reduced blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract and more blood to be supplied to the motor organs, resulting in weakened gastrointestinal digestive function, which can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort and pain, and even indigestion.

Similarly, you should wait for a certain period of time before eating after exercise, because the center that manages muscle activity is in a highly excited state during exercise, and the digestive organs are inhibited. The activity of the digestive organs needs a certain amount of time to recover. Therefore, you generally do not want to eat immediately after long-term intense exercise. You should rest for about 30 minutes after exercise before eating.

(3) It is not advisable to eat a lot of cold food after strenuous exercise. During strenuous exercise, the body temperature rises compared to usual. If you eat cold food immediately after exercise, it will cause sudden contraction of blood vessels in the gastrointestinal tract, causing dysfunction of the gastrointestinal system due to excessive cold stimulation, causing symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea. In addition, due to the congestion of the throat after exercise, the excessive cold stimulation can also cause throat inflammation, pain and other discomforts.