Check out the bad habits in life that hurt your stomach

The stomach is a very important organ in the human body. Although it generally does not threaten people's lives, it plays a big role in people's digestion and eating. It is not important whether we eat well or not. What is important is how the stomach helps us digest and absorb nutrients. Now that living conditions are getting better and better, people have started to overeat, which makes our stomachs unable to bear it, resulting in most people nowadays suffering from stomach problems.

If we want to have a healthy stomach, we should pay attention to it in our daily life and not let our stomach bear too much because of our momentary preferences. Our daily living habits are also very important. Let’s take stock of the bad habits we have in our daily lives that threaten our health.

A fear of being late

"Forgetting to eat and sleep" seems to have become a habit of many office workers. However, unintentional skipping of one meal and fullness of another will slowly erode the health of the stomach. In recent years, the incidence of functional dyspepsia, gastritis, and gastric ulcers has been increasing among busy white-collar workers.

Director Tang Zhipeng analyzed that the stomach is an organ that strictly adheres to a "schedule". The secretion of gastric juice has physiological peaks and troughs throughout the day to facilitate timely digestion of food. If gastric acid and pepsin are not neutralized by food, they will digest the gastric mucosa itself and cause damage to it.

2. Fear of having too much dinner

Forgetting breakfast in a hurry, having a simple lunch, eating and drinking too much at night, and having a midnight snack before going to bed, a healthy digestive system will often be destroyed by such eating habits. Director Tang Zhipeng pointed out that based on the daily calorie intake of the human body, the most appropriate proportion should be 30% for breakfast, 40% for lunch and 30% for dinner.

Eating too much at dinner or eating a midnight snack too close to bed will not only affect sleep and cause obesity, but also force the gastrointestinal tract to be in an overloaded "intense work". Excessive secretion of gastric juice will corrode the gastric mucosa. If this continues for a long time, it will lead to diseases such as erosion and ulcers.

3. Fear of unclean food

In midsummer, various pathogenic bacteria multiply rapidly and food easily rots and spoils. If you eat unclean or stale food, it can easily cause acute gastritis, with symptoms such as stomach pain, bloating and vomiting.

4. Fear of eating too fast

After food enters the stomach, it needs to be stored, ground, and digested, and the food must be turned into chyme before it reaches the intestines. Developing the good habit of chewing slowly can increase the secretion of saliva, which is conducive to better digestion and absorption of food. If you do not chew food thoroughly and eat too fast, the rough food will directly wear out the gastric mucosa and increase the burden on the stomach, causing food to stay in the stomach for a longer time, thereby causing gastric muscle fatigue and decreased gastric motility.

Five fears of cold

Director Tang Zhipeng pointed out that the stomach is an organ that is very sensitive to the external climate and temperature. When the human body is stimulated by cold air, the stomach is prone to spasmodic contractions, which can cause symptoms such as stomach pain, indigestion, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Most people pay attention to keeping warm in autumn and winter, but they don’t know that in summer, eating too much cold drinks, cold fruits or staying in an air-conditioned environment for a long time can also cause the stomach to catch cold, thus affecting gastrointestinal function.

6. Fear of excessive fatigue

Whether you are engaged in physical or mental labor, long-term overload work will lead to excessive fatigue, which will not only reduce the body's resistance, but also weaken the defense function of the gastric mucosa. It can easily cause insufficient blood supply to the stomach and secretory dysfunction, while excessive gastric acid and reduced mucus will damage the gastric mucosa.

Seventh fear: mental stress

The occurrence and development of many stomach diseases are closely related to people’s emotions and mentality. When a person is nervous, upset or angry, these negative emotions will affect the stomach's secretion, motility, digestion and other functions. Therefore, patients who suffer from long-term depression, anxiety or mental trauma are prone to gastric ulcers.

8. Fear of excessive drinking

Drinking a small amount of red wine every day is good for your health. However, if you drink excessively, alcohol will not only damage your liver, cause skin dehydration, and kill brain cells, but it will also directly damage the gastric mucosa, causing inflammation, erosion, ulcers, or bleeding. In addition, drinking alcohol can delay the healing process of stomach ulcers. Therefore, patients with stomach problems should especially avoid excessive drinking.

Habits determine whether a person is healthy or not. Habits are also something that accumulates over time. Every little bit of everything is closely related to our health. Developing good habits can make us healthier and live longer. The stomach bears the pressure of the food we eat every day. We may be aware of the bad habits mentioned above, but we don’t pay much attention to them. However, in order to have a healthy stomach, we must avoid these bad habits.