It is apt to cause constipation that the elderly eat fruits after a meal for a long time

The ones that just retired for half a year had resembled gentlemen and made a series of health plans for oneself, under the spouse's nurse with the best of care, daily life law, will also eat a fruit after a meal each, and is turning over some changes to eat everyday, who knows he has always felt recently stomach is uncomfortable, there is feeling of abdominal distension, thereupon the appearance is some symptoms of constipation, this just comes to the first hospital in Nanjing to go to a doctor.

It had better be before having a meal to eat fruits

The first hospital in Nanjing digests the department one and shakes jade these symptoms and recent habits and customs that a director makes a definite diagnosis of him - -Eat fruits to concern greatly after a meal. A lot of people think that eat the best matching that some fruits are the modern life after a meal, it will influence digestive function, especially the elderly to in fact eat fruits at once after a meal, it is apt to cause constipation to eat fruits after a meal for a long time.

After the food enters the stomach, must pass through the digestion course of 1- 2 hours, could slowly discharge, if eat into the fruit immediately after the meal, will be blocked in the stomach by the food reached in advance, so the fruit can't be digested in the stomach normally, so residence time is too long in the stomach, thus cause symptoms such as abdominal distension, constipation,etc.. Stomach functions of the elderly are relatively weak, the intestines and stomach wriggle slower, apter emergence which cause constipation. In addition, adhere to this kind of habits and customs for a long time, will cause the disorders of digestion. So, even eat fruits, should eat in 1- 2 hours after the meal.

And Taiwanese nutritionist Dr. Lin GuangChang proposes, it is not so good as eating fruits before a meal eating fruits after a meal. Our stomach has all already been basically emptied before a meal, after eating fruits, the carbohydrate among them can be turned in the body into glucose rapidly, it is easier to be absorb by the organism. With the rising of the candy content in the blood, the brain will reduce the hollow feeling in the stomach slowly, in addition, the meal fiber in the fruit can give the stomach a kind of full belly sense, thus inhibit the vigorous appetite, would not be eaten too much naturally while reaching the daily meal, this kind of method can't be more suitable to keeping on a diet. In addition, it also helps human body's absorption of various vitamins and minerals very much to eat fruits before a meal, let you enter the meal to obtain sufficient nutrition supply happily.