How to have a healthy dinner?

The proverb says: “Eat breakfast for yourself, lunch with your friends and dinner with your enemies.”

However, with the modern pace of life today, dinner is often the main meal, with all family members present. So how can we have a healthy dinner, with enough energy and fun for each other, not “dinner for the enemy”?

Don't skip dinner.

Don’t think that skipping dinner can give you the waistline you want. After a day of activity, your body needs energy to restore and regenerate cells. Therefore, dinner is a mandatory “duty” for you.

Skipping dinner can cause low blood sugar and fatigue. You will have to compensate for the lack of calories with a “huge” breakfast with meat and other protein-rich foods. The habit of “fullness accumulates hunger” is also the reason why you have problems with your digestive system and weight.

Don't eat too much meat for dinner.

But don't eat too much.

Eating too much at dinner will definitely increase the burden on the stomach and intestines, causing difficulty sleeping and insomnia. This condition will easily lead to diseases such as neurasthenia. For middle-aged people, always eating too much at dinner will continuously stimulate insulin secretion, leading to diabetes.

At the same time, eating too much at dinner will result in a large amount of protein that is not digested and absorbed. Under the influence of bacteria in the intestines, these proteins will produce toxic substances, at the same time, slowing down the process of falling asleep, prolonging the residence time of toxic substances in the intestines. This can lead to colon cancer.

Don't eat too much meat for dinner.

Research shows that people who always eat meat for dinner have 3-4 times higher blood fat levels than those who always eat vegetables, especially red meat - the type of meat that takes the body a long time to digest the protein and fat in it. If you eat red meat late, you may have trouble sleeping, even insomnia.

For people with hyperlipidemia and hypertension, eating too much meat at dinner will make their condition much more serious. In addition, eating too much meat at dinner will increase the cholesterol content in the body. While too much cholesterol will accumulate on the blood vessel walls, this condition can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases in the long run.

A healthy dinner to restore and regenerate cell activity.

Limit sweets

After dinner, desserts all contain a certain amount of sugar, whether large or small. When eating a lot of sweets, the sugar content after entering the body will be divided into two types: fructose and glucose, absorbed by the body and converted into energy and fat.

In addition, after dinner, body activity decreases, eating a lot of sweets at dinner can increase fat accumulation in the body, thereby easily causing weight gain.

Don't eat dinner too late

You should not eat dinner too late, because it can easily cause urinary tract stones. The body's urination usually takes place 4-5 hours after a meal. However, at this time, people are always deep in sleep, often do not want to get up to urinate. Therefore, if dinner is too late, nocturnal urination is not done promptly, leading to the accumulation of toxic waste such as calcium oxalate, uric acid... in the kidneys and urethra, which can cause kidney stones and urinary tract stones over time.

According to Zing