Experts remind: the best way to have a healthy is not to eat late night snacks or eat less late night snacks. If you do need to supplement your diet at night, the best choice is carbohydrates, i.e. starch and sugar.
Easy to get stones: the peak of human calcium discharge is often 4 to 5 hours after meals, if you eat late, when the peak of calcium discharge, people have gone to bed, the urine will be retained in the ureter, bladder, urethra and other urinary tract, can not be discharged in time, resulting in a continuous increase in calcium in the urine is easy to be deposited down to the formation of small crystals, and gradually expand over time to form stones.
Easy to get fatty liver: when eating late-night snacks, too much protein intake, the human body can not absorb will be retained in the intestinal tract, will deteriorate, produce ammonia, indole, hydrogen sulfide and other toxins, stimulate the intestinal wall, induced cancer. Coupled with alcohol consumption, it is more likely to be associated with "alcoholic fatty liver". Easy to get diabetes: Eating too much at night will cause the liver to synthesize significantly more blood cholesterol and stimulate the liver to make more LDL. Carrying too much cholesterol to the arterial wall to accumulate (including penile artery), also become atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, impotence, one of the triggers. At the same time, because long-term eating late-night snacking overfilled, will repeatedly stimulate the pancreatic islets, so that insulin secretion increases, over time, it causes the function of the cells that secrete insulin to diminish, or even early decline, diabetes.
Induced insomnia: eating late-night snacks too full can make the stomach bulge, the pressure on the surrounding organs, the stomach, intestines, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and other organs in the postprandial tension will transmit information to the brain, causing the brain to be active and spread to the other parts of the cerebral cortex, induced insomnia. (Source: Yichang Third Hospital)
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