Is eating these at night equivalent to "chronic poisoning"?
Eating at night is equivalent to "chronic suicide"! How many have you believed about the rumor that “you can’t eat at night”?
A view that has been circulating in the health world for a long time is that after people fall asleep at night, the stomach will also enter a dormant state. The things eaten late at night cannot be digested, and over time it becomes toxins to damage health. It is even more specific, for example, if you eat some fruits with higher sugar and then go to bed immediately, these fruits will ferment in the stomach and intestines, and turn into stones over time? Do you think there is something reliable among these statements? Or what rumors do you think are true?
In fact, there have always been some rumors that food will have different effects at different times. For example, when it comes to eating ginger, "Eat ginger early, better than ginseng soup; eat ginger late, better than arsenic", when it comes to eating apples, there are "golden apples in the morning, silver apples in the afternoon, and poisonous apples in the evening". Moreover, these common sayings are particularly circulated among mothers and grandmothers. Everyone believes it and can also explain why this truth clearly makes you feel that it really happen. For example, "Eat ginger late, like arsenic" is because eating ginger will make people feel hot all over and feel irritable, which is not conducive to nights when you need to sleep well, which can easily cause excessive excitement and difficulty falling asleep. "Poisonous apples at night" is because the stomach and intestines are no longer working at night. The apples you eat will ferment in the stomach and become toxic substances that harm your health. It is easier to synthesize fat and become fat when eating at night. These rumors that have no experimental basis have made many people believe it. Next, let’s talk about why these rumors are unreliable.
First of all, after people slept, the organs also took a break and went on strike?
actually won't. Imagine if your organs are completely rested after you fall asleep, why are you still breathing? Why do people who are sleeping heavily still snore? Will your heart beating be gone? In this way, we can actually conclude that in order to maintain the normal operation of the human body, the organs in the body will still operate after falling asleep, rather than just going on a strike and slander. Here we can give an inappropriate example. For example, many patients will use nasal feeding tubes to feed him nutrition, or infusions to help him recover. If the organs are sleeping at this time, the nutrition and medicines inputted will not have any effect on the person at all. In turn, it can prove that when a person is asleep, the body organs will not be damaged at work!
Research shows that there is no big difference between sleeping and the digestion and absorption of protein when people are awake during the day, as well as the digestion and absorption of carbohydrate when they are awake. Therefore, it can be proved that the midnight snacks I eat at night will not fall asleep immediately after I fall asleep, and then wait for the person to wake up the next day to continue digesting. This is impossible. Although if you eat protein, digestion will be slower, it has nothing to do with when you eat it. Instead, it has to do with the amount you eat. After all, everyone's gastrointestinal digestive function is limited. Not to mention that the ingredients in fruits are carbohydrates, which are definitely better digestible than proteins. And judging by the nature of carbohydrates and the chemical reactions that will occur in the stomach and intestines, it is impossible to produce toxins or turn into stones. Please don’t worry about this.
The second rumor: Eating at night is easier to gain weight?
says online that eating the same food at night is easier to make people fat than eating during the day, and citing the saying, "The horse does not have night grass to prove it." Some researchers have indeed conducted experiments on this issue, and the results may disappoint many people. In fact, the truth is that eating at night is the same as eating during the day. Whether you are fat or not depends on whether there is a calorie gap. If you eat more than you move, you will definitely get fat, and it has no strong relationship with the time you eat. But why do many people still have this idea? In fact, the key is that everyone is very excited when staying up late at night. They are prone to intake too much food to relieve their emotions and achieve the possibility of falling asleep quickly. This excessive caloric intake is the reason why eating at night can easily gain weight.As for some rumors about the prone to fat at night, there are specific reasons: one is that the metabolic rate will become lower after falling asleep at night, and the other is that the level of insulin and will be abnormal at night, which can easily lead to accelerate the synthesis of fat. Is there any scientific basis for this? After all, it seems to make sense.
Don’t worry, let’s talk about it one by one. First of all, will the metabolic rate become lower after falling asleep? The answer is: No. Research has found that there is no significant difference between human basal metabolism of during the day and at night. It still consumes energy when sleeping, and even if you sleep lightly or poorly, you will consume a little more. Secondly, will the insulin level be abnormal at night? The answer is: Insulin levels in healthy people will not be abnormal at night, and insulin will be secreted according to the need for blood sugar regulation. However, if you are a diabetic patient, you may indeed have abnormal insulin levels at night, but it does not mean that eating at night causes such a result. Many studies have proved that eating at night or before going to bed will not have any special impact, and people are actually worried.
Take protein as an example. It will not affect the appetite of the next day just because you consume protein before going to bed, or make you gain weight. If it is a group of people who have long-term strength training, they need to supplement protein before bed, which may be a little better than spending more time sweating in the gym. For the elderly who need to supplement protein, eating protein or even drinking some protein drinks before bed will not affect their health. On the contrary, drinking some protein drinks before bed is good for their health.
In fact, everyone knows in their hearts that whether they are fat or not has a direct relationship with the calorie gap. If you say why I gain weight after eating midnight snacks, it is because I consume too much calorie intake. If I eat more foods during the day than usual, it will make me gain weight like eating midnight snacks!
The third rumor: Does eating at night affect sleep? Will you not be able to sleep before going to bed?
For patients with heart disease, eating before going to bed, especially some fat-containing beverages and other foods may have a worsening of the condition. For normal people, as mentioned earlier, the impact is really not great.
The fourth rumor: Is eating ginger at night really arsenic?
Now let’s talk about ginger in detail. There is currently no evidence that eating ginger will cause you to not sleep or sleep better. It is worth discussing that ginger even has some sleep aid formulas that are added. Moreover, the impact of eating ginger on sleep actually varies from person to person. For example, some people think that after drinking ginger tea, it is easier to fall asleep. The impact of ginger on sleep has no definite efficacy or disadvantages. But it is confirmed that ginger will not turn into arsenic no matter whether it is eaten at night or during the day. It is another substance.
But there are also credible parts of these rumors, such as some foods do have certain sleep aids. In fact, many people also feel this way, and sometimes they feel that eating something before going to bed can make you sleep better.
What rumors have you and your family believed in that "you can't eat at night"? If this article answers your questions, please share them with your family and friends~
