I used to hear the old man say, "If you don't eat dinner, hunger will cure all diseases." I think it is a bit exaggerated to say that "hunger cures all diseases", but eating less dinner is indeed very beneficial to the health of the body. If you absolutely do not eat dinner, you need to see whether your own physical conditions can bear it. , if you act blindly, it is not very useful, and some things will be reversed. Let’s analyze this problem below and see what harms skipping dinner will do to the body

Five disadvantages of skipping dinner for a long time

1. Damage to the gastric mucosa and cause gastric disease

An empty stomach often stimulates the digestive organs to secrete a large amount of stomach acid, which can easily corrode other organs and body parts. If the gastrointestinal tract is in an empty stomach for a long time, gastric acid will also affect the function of the gastrointestinal tract and damage the gastrointestinal mucosa, which is not conducive to the maintenance of the digestive tract.

In addition, if you don’t eat dinner for a long time, it will easily cause the gastric mucosa to thicken, affect the function of the digestive tract, and also cause gastritis and even stomach disease.

2. Decreased memory and intelligence

After a whole day of exertion, the blood sugar concentration of the body is lower. If you do not eat, the blood sugar concentration of the body will be even lower, and the brain Failure to obtain continuous support will also cause corresponding damage to the brain. In addition, other functions of the brain will also be affected, resulting in reduced intelligence, inability to concentrate, memory loss, etc.

3. Reduce the body’s resistance

Skipping dinner can easily lead to hypoglycemia, resulting in insufficient supply of nutrients to the organs, and the body’s resistance will also decrease. Especially for middle-aged and elderly people, nutrients are not easy to digest and absorb, so they must have dinner. At this time, they should not focus on whether to eat dinner, but on what to eat.

4. Become fat-prone physique

If you don’t eat dinner, the calories your body needs cannot be replenished. People think that they should choose to slow down their metabolism and reduce the consumption of calories, rather than using complex meals. A biochemical reaction that converts lipids in the body into heat. Because muscles consume calories quickly, the body will give up muscles and save lipids. As muscles decrease, metabolism will slow down, eventually creating a vicious cycle. At this time, even if you eat the same amount of food as before, your body will give priority to storing lipids instead of converting them into energy for consumption. Therefore, you will be fatter than before, which will lead to a body prone to obesity.

5. It affects sleep

By night, lunch has been basically absorbed by the body, and the stomach is naturally hungry. If you insist on skipping dinner, you may be too hungry to sleep at night, which will affect the body's normal rest. You will feel very tired the next day and have difficulty concentrating.

If you fall into these 3 categories, it doesn’t matter if you don’t eat!

If you belong to one of the following three people, there is no need to worry that skipping dinner may have adverse effects on the body. On the contrary, if you are a person who eats three meals a day on time and in measured quantities, then it is best to have a light dinner.

1. People whose weight is obviously over the standard

Skipping dinner is equivalent to reducing the food intake by one-third. If you eat less, you will certainly lose weight. But this is only for overweight people. To put it bluntly, overweight refers to people with a BMI of 28 and a body fat rate of 30%.

The most important thing in the early stage of weight loss is to control your diet and limit your caloric intake. You may consider skipping dinner. For people who are already thin, skipping dinner may cause low blood sugar, stomachache and other symptoms, so you should not try it casually.

2. People who eat lunch too late

Due to living habits and work reasons, many people often have breakfast at 10 o'clock and lunch around three or four o'clock. Therefore, they miss the best lunch time. For these people, they often don’t feel hungry, so they can consider skipping dinner.

3. People who go to bed at nine o'clock at night

For people who go to bed too early, dinner can be omitted, because at nine o'clock or even before nine o'clock, our stomach The intestines are in a state of digestion and absorption. If you fall asleep at this time after a meal, it will affect your sleep, causing lipids to accumulate in the body, making them difficult to be digested and absorbed.

For these people, they can reasonably adjust their lunch to a later time. As long as they have sufficient calories and nutrients throughout the day, they will be fine if they skip dinner.

The view that "not eating dinner is good for your health" is unreasonable. Skipping dinner can cause metabolic disorders, affect gallbladder and liver function, and lead to gallstones and other diseases; it may also cause nutritional deficiencies and easily lead to new diseases. In addition, the work and rest time of contemporary life has greatly changed from that of ancient farming culture, so the cognitive ability of ancient times cannot be copied.

From a health perspective, you can reasonably eat less dinner, but "eating less" does not mean "not eating it." I suggest that for ordinary people, especially most middle-aged and elderly people, three meals a day must be on time and in the right amount, and maintained in a corresponding pattern, in order to be beneficial to physical and mental health.