What should I pay attention to when sleeping after lunch?

As the saying goes, being well fed leads to lust. Once a person is full, he or she will become lazy and not want to do anything. However, Chinese medicine suggests that people should do some exercise after a meal to help digestion and keep the body healthy. However, some people believe that one should get enough rest after a meal so that the body can absorb food normally and stay healthy. So should you exercise after a meal? Can you go to sleep directly after lunch? Let me introduce it to you below.

It is recorded in Sheyang Zhenzhong Fang that "walking a few hundred steps after eating is very beneficial to people." It means that walking slowly after a meal can promote gastrointestinal motility, help the secretion of gastrointestinal digestive juices and the digestion and absorption of food. But do not walk briskly or do strenuous exercise. The time for taking a walk should be 20 minutes after a meal, and you should never go out for a walk right after a meal. However, people with poor physical fitness 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. It is not suitable for people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

In the past, people were accustomed to taking a rest after lunch because most people felt headache, weakness in limbs, and soreness all over the body after lunch. This is because the human body's blood has a relatively constant indicator. After a person eats, blood flow will be concentrated in the digestive system, resulting in a relatively reduced blood supply to the brain and body. As a result, the brain and limbs do not get enough oxygen and nutrients, and metabolic products cannot be eliminated in time, causing a series of discomfort symptoms. Studies have shown that taking a half-hour break before a meal can more effectively eliminate fatigue than sleeping for 2 hours after a meal, and can greatly improve work efficiency in the afternoon.

You can't go to bed immediately after eating, as this will harm your body. Even if you don't exercise after a meal, you can't go to bed immediately, as it will affect your health. You can take a short walk after a meal to help digestion and prevent food accumulation. If you want to sleep after lunch, you should delay the time so that sleeping will not harm your body, so everyone should pay more attention.