Night snack, refers to the meal in the evening, for the meal after dinner, the time refers to the rest time, usually after 12 o'clock to 4:00 a.m. before.

Source of late-night snacks

Lingnan is located in the subtropics, the day is long and the night is short, so the Cantonese people have developed the habit of drinking tea and late-night snacks.

Nevertheless, the term "late-night snack" did not come from Lingnan. Song "Dream sorghum record": "New Year's Eve, the Department (Interior) meaning Bureau (Palace institutions) to present the night fruit box, the box cluster (collection) of all kinds of fine fruits: seasonal fruits, candied fruits, candied sugar and other products." "late night" elegantly known as "late night", this name has an ancient history.

"Dictionary" "late night" article notes that: "Cantonese night market restaurants are also called late night." This statement is not appropriate. Late-night snacks include congee, noodles, and sweetened water, which the Cantonese enjoy after dinner in their after-dinner programs called "late-night snacks," while "restaurants in the night market" are the places where late-night snacks are eaten. Strictly speaking, the earliest "late-night snack" refers to dinner.

Expanded Information

One, which types of people must not eat late-night snacks?

1, insomnia. After eating greasy food at night, it is more unfavorable to sleep.

2, digestive system disease patients: such as hepatitis, gastric ulcer. This kind of patients digestion, absorption function has been a problem, late-night snacking will increase the burden on the digestive organs, especially drinking alcohol, it is toxic to the liver, stomach stimulation.

3, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver, diabetic patients, obese people, the elderly. Most of these people themselves fat metabolism is not good, there has been hyperlipidemia, even if the snacks eat low-fat diet, can still make the night blood fat significantly higher, more unfavorable to the body.

Two, eat late-night snacks four big attention

1, appropriate to supplement the energy can be, do not take the late-night snacks as a meal to eat, slices of bread and porridge is a better choice, too much fat barbecue and shabu-shabu meat as far as possible not to eat.

2. The time between midnight snacks and sleep must be calculated, not too close between the two, you should rest for an hour or two before going to bed. Water and sugar a lot of fruit and some diuretic food before going to bed must be eaten less, or quite affect the quality of sleep.

3, night snacks accounted for the share of the whole day to eat not more than one-fifth, variety can be varied, the amount must be small, the best match is dairy products, a small amount of carbohydrates and a little fruit.

4, not too salty. This is very important, in addition to causing you to want to keep drinking water, it will also lead to water is difficult to discharge, resulting in the morning get up facial swelling.

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