Four bad effects of late night snacks for men

1. Easy to form stones

The human body's peak calcium excretion period is 4 to 5 hours after a meal. If you eat a midnight snack, when the peak calcium excretion period arrives, you have already gone to bed and the urine will be retained in the ureter, bladder, and urethra and cannot be excreted from the body in time, causing the calcium in the urine to continue to increase and easily precipitate to form crystals, which will gradually expand and form stones over time.

2. Difficulty in consuming nutrients

People often choose a lot of high-protein foods such as meat, eggs, and milk as midnight snacks. Although these foods are rich in nutrients, digestion is a problem. These foods will increase the calcium in urine, which will not only reduce the body's calcium reserves, induce myopia in adolescents and osteoporosis in the middle-aged and elderly, but also increase the possibility of urethral stones. If you add drinking, it is more likely to induce alcoholic fatty liver.

3. Increase cholesterol

If you eat mostly high-fat, high-protein foods for midnight snacks, it is easy to cause a sudden increase in blood lipids in the human body. The human body's blood often maintains a high fat content at night. If you eat too much at this time, or eat frequently or repeatedly, it will cause the liver to synthesize a significant increase in blood cholesterol, stimulating the liver to produce more low-density lipoprotein. In addition, once too much cholesterol is carried to the arterial wall and accumulates, it will become a cause of diseases such as atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

4. Induce insomnia

Overeating at night will cause the stomach to swell and put pressure on the surrounding organs. The tension of the stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder and pancreas after a meal will send information to the brain, causing brain activity and spreading to other parts of the cerebral cortex, inducing insomnia.