Should I have a midnight snack or a late night snack?

Many people do not eat at night for work, so they have to eat some midnight snacks or night snacks. At this time, we must master scientific eating methods, otherwise eating at night will easily cause us to gain weight. I believe that many people are particularly interested in eating midnight snacks or night snacks, but they don’t know much about it. What is the problem of eating midnight snacks or night snacks?

1. The peak period of calcium excretion is usually 4 to 5 hours after a meal. If dinner is too late, when the peak period of calcium excretion arrives, people have already gone to bed and fallen asleep. Urine will be retained in the ureter, bladder, urethra and other urinary tracts and cannot be excreted in time, causing the calcium in the urine to continue to increase, which is easy to precipitate and form small crystals. Over time, it gradually expands to form stones.

2. Dinner is a good meal. Although it is nutritious, it also exposes another problem, that is, how the nutrients are consumed. According to scientific research reports, eating a lot of high-protein foods such as meat, eggs, milk, etc. at dinner will increase the amount of calcium in the urine, which will reduce the body's calcium storage and induce rickets in children, myopia in teenagers and osteoporosis in the elderly. On the other hand, the high concentration of calcium in the urine will greatly increase the possibility of urinary stones. Moreover, if too much protein is consumed, the human body will not absorb it and it will be retained in the intestine, where it will deteriorate and produce toxins such as ammonia, indole, hydrogen sulfide, which will stimulate the intestinal wall and induce cancer.

3. Often like to eat late night meals, and eat high-fat, high-protein foods, which can easily cause a sudden increase in blood lipids in the body. The human body's blood often maintains a high fat content at night. Eating too much at night, or eating frequently and repeatedly, will cause the liver to synthesize a significant increase in blood cholesterol, and stimulate the liver to produce more low-density lipoprotein, carrying excess cholesterol to the arterial walls (including the penile arteries) and accumulating, which also becomes one of the causes of atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and impotence. At the same time, long-term overeating at night will repeatedly stimulate the pancreas, increasing insulin secretion. Over time, it will cause the insulin-secreting β cells to become dysfunctional, or even decline prematurely, leading to diabetes. These diseases can affect sexual function and lead to sexual decline. 4. Eating too much at dinner can cause the stomach to swell and put pressure on the surrounding organs. The intense work of the stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and other organs after a meal will transmit information to the brain, causing brain activity and spreading to other parts of the cerebral cortex, inducing insomnia.

Whether to have midnight snacks or late-night snacks depends on our personal habits. Eating late-night snacks will not bring us the trouble of gaining weight to a certain extent, but the food for midnight snacks also needs our special attention. We should choose some nutritious and healthy food for ourselves. It is very necessary to eat more fruits.