The words that you can not eat before going to bed, we have long been perceived as an axiom. But is it? Is it really bad late dinner and what is its negative impact on our health?
Harm of late supper for health
Dinner at night overloads the endocrine system, while in the body in excess is produced insulin, which becomes one of the factors causing various diseases such as obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, dysbiosis, etc. In addition,between excess of insulin and development of depressions, psychoses there is a direct link.
Due to late suppers, internal organs suffer, especially the heavy load falls on the liver and kidneys. Abundant food before bedtime reduces the secretion of growth hormones, because of what, with time becoming the norm, leads to a sharp acceleration of the natural aging processes of the body.
If a person ate shortly before sleeping( especially heavy food, like fatty meat), his stomach is still working, while the duodenum "rests", food is stored in it, for the processing of which a large amount of bile begins to be produced. However, bile can not enter the overflowed duodenum and remain in the gallbladder, which leads to its inflammation and the formation of stones in it.
And that's not the whole vicious circle! Late food intake can provoke insomnia and, as a consequence, a sluggish state in the morning. Also, such a diet, which lasts a long time, can impose a misprint on the figure. Excess weight appears in many people precisely because they like to eat before going to bed( especially fatty and high-calorie food).
Correct dinner and night snack
Therefore, doctors recommend eating at least 3-4 before bedtime and preferably go to bed as early as possible. First, if you fall asleep before midnight, the dream will become stronger. Secondly, the night hunger in this case simply can not "reach out" to the sleeping brain.
Having woken up at night from what you want to eat, do not rush to the refrigerator immediately. You can take a few deep breaths with your nose and breathe out in the same way, you can walk around the room for a few seconds, make a stretch near the wall and the feeling of hunger must pass. Hunger is sometimes confused with thirst, so you can drink a little water and thus deceive the stomach.
To sleep was stronger and hunger did not disturb all night, you can drink an appetizing or calming warm tea with the addition of lemon balm, St. John's wort and a teaspoon of honey. Also replace a fairly tight late dinner can a glass of yogurt. In kefir for taste, you can add a pinch of ground cinnamon, which speeds up the digestion process.