Men need to take good care of this thing to live a long life

"How is your stomach?" Urban white-collar workers often work overtime and stay up late, which leads to irregular eating and stomach diseases. If you want to have a healthy stomach, you must pay attention to following some principles of three meals a day.

Protecting the stomach should start with breakfast. If you skip breakfast, the stomach acid cannot be neutralized by food, which will erode the gastric mucosa and cause local inflammation and ulcers.

(1) Principles of breakfast

① Eat breakfast regularly. Eating breakfast irregularly is even more harmful than skipping breakfast.

② Eat hot food. Eating hot food can protect the "stomach qi".

③ Scientific combination. In addition to eating "liquid" breakfast, you should also eat a certain amount of "dry" and absorb nutrients from a variety of foods.

④ Avoid eating too much meat or greasy food, as these foods contain more fat and will add burden to the stomach and intestines.

(2) Chinese food principles for protecting the stomach

① Eat a mild diet. A mild diet is a non-irritating, low-fiber, easy-to-digest, and nutritious diet. Eat in small, frequent meals.

②Relax and keep a happy mood while eating.

③ Non-irritating. Do not eat too much food that promotes gastric secretion or damages gastric mucosal tissue. Fiber mostly comes from plant foods and is not easily digested and absorbed by the human body, such as bran, fruit skins and seeds, bean skins, and coarse tissues in vegetables. These relatively rough substances can easily damage the gastrointestinal tract and should be avoided. If the mouth and teeth are healthy and can fully chew food and mix it with saliva, there is no need to completely restrict it.

④Easy to digest. In addition to fiber, some animal tendons and gelatin are also difficult to digest. The cooking method is also very important. Foods that are steamed, boiled, or stewed into a paste are easier to digest; foods that are fried, roasted, or deep-fried are difficult to digest.

⑤ Adequate nutrition. Although there are some adjustments in diet due to the disease, the nutrients provided must be sufficient. The six major types of food should still be the main food intake. Try to choose a wide variety of foods as much as possible to obtain various nutrients.

(3) How to nourish your stomach with dinner

① Drink water before meals. Drinking 60-100 ml of warm water half an hour before meals can help digestion. If the gastric acid secretion of patients with gastric disease is high, drinking warm water can dilute the gastric acid. If the gastric acid secretion is low, warm water can reflexively increase gastric acid secretion after being absorbed by the small intestine, which is beneficial to digestion.

② Chew slowly. The longer the food is chewed in the mouth, the finer the food is ground. When the food fully contacts the taste buds on the tongue, it can stimulate the salivary glands to secrete a large amount of saliva. The salivary digestive enzymes can perform preliminary digestion of the food.

③ Eat until you are 80% full. Studies have found that limiting the amount of food you eat can help you live longer, especially not overeating at dinner.

④Be in a good mood. Bad emotions and psychological factors will affect the normal secretion of gastric juice. Therefore, when eating, don’t be nervous, don’t be impatient, the environment should be quiet, and the mood should be good.

⑤ Don't eat while watching TV. When eating, the body's blood is concentrated on the stomach to help digestion. If you eat while watching TV, because your attention is focused on the TV screen, the blood supply to the stomach will be insufficient, thus affecting the digestive function: at the same time, the blood supply to the eyes will be insufficient, causing visual fatigue and damage to the eyes. You can listen to light music and chat about light topics during dinner, which will help increase appetite and make people's appetite open.