How long after a meal is it best to exercise?

It is often said that if you walk a hundred steps after a meal, you will live to be ninety-nine. This shows the importance of exercise after a meal for health preservation. Of course, this is just one of the methods. Generally, it is necessary to exercise after a meal, but it is not good for your stomach to exercise immediately after a meal. Therefore, you need to follow some principles when exercising after a meal, so that you can make your body healthier and healthier. Let's learn together!

1. Rinse your mouth after eating

The ancient medical scientist Zhang Zhongjing pointed out: "You should rinse your mouth after eating to keep your teeth healthy and your mouth fragrant." Rinsing your mouth after eating can keep the mouth moist and clean, stimulate the taste buds on the tongue, enhance the taste function, and effectively prevent and treat oral and dental diseases, protect the mouth and teeth, and is beneficial to increasing appetite and helping digestion and absorption.

2. Massage your abdomen after eating

Massaging the abdomen after eating can not only promote gastrointestinal motility and blood circulation in the abdominal cavity, which is beneficial to enhancing gastrointestinal function, but also serve as a benign stimulus, which is transmitted to the brain through nerves, is beneficial to the regulation of central nervous system function and plays a role in fitness and disease prevention. Specific method: Place your palms on your abdomen, with your navel as the center, and slowly and gently massage in a clockwise and counterclockwise direction for 20 circles each.

3. Walk slowly after eating

The time for a walk after a meal should be 20 minutes after a meal, and you should never go out for a walk right after a meal. If you start walking a hundred steps right after a meal, the blood in your body will be distributed more to the active parts of the body such as the trunk and limbs, which will reduce the blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract and the secretion of digestive enzymes. As a result, the food in the stomach cannot be fully digested.

“Walking a hundred steps after a meal” is not suitable for everyone. People with poor physical condition or suffering from diseases such as gastroptosis should not take a walk after a meal. Instead, they should lie down for 10 minutes after a meal. This is because the stomach is full of food after a meal. Performing upright activities at this time will increase the vibration of the stomach, increase the burden on the stomach, and aggravate gastroptosis. Therefore, you should sit quietly after a meal and close your eyes for 30 minutes before any activity.

It should be noted that people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases are not suitable for "walking a hundred steps after a meal", because gastrointestinal activity increases after a meal, gastrointestinal blood flow increases, and the blood flow to the brain decreases accordingly. It is best to stand for a while after a meal, which can help promote gastrointestinal motility. For people who pay attention to health, it is best to eat less for dinner.