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Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is worse than skipping breakfast? When you wake up, do 5 things in order

After getting up every morning, Lao Zhang likes to pour a large cup of warm water to make him feel refreshed and comfortable. But after seeing his father's behavior, the son Zhang immediately opened his mouth to prevent "in the morning fasting can not drink water, especially just get up, oral bacteria are drunk down, hurt the stomach!"

By wu haoPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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After getting up every morning, Lao Zhang likes to pour a large cup of warm water to make him feel refreshed and comfortable.

But after seeing his father's behavior, the son Zhang immediately opened his mouth to prevent "in the morning fasting can not drink water, especially just get up, oral bacteria are drunk down, hurt the stomach!"

Lao Zhang is also an accident. He has been drinking water in the morning for decades. He still drinks water without his son. Think of here, OLD ZHANG temper up immediately drank a cup, small Zhang see this helpless sigh, his father is really too stubborn, don't you know the severe bacteria?

Lao Zhang saw this did not care for, he drank water for many years without any trouble, still well. This kid doesn't want to eat every morning, that's what's hurting his stomach. However, Xiao Zhang said that drinking water on an empty stomach early in the morning is much more harmful than skipping breakfast.

Father and son are stubborn temper, arguing for a long time to a reason.

Drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning is worse than skipping breakfast?

Drinking water in the morning is a long-term habit of many elderly people. Many people are well aware of the benefits of drinking water in the morning for the human body.

After a night of breathing and sweating, our bodies lose more water and the body's blood consistency is relatively high. Therefore, acute cardio-cerebrovascular disease is high in the morning. At this time, drinking a glass of water can dilute the blood and improve the problem of blood stickiness caused by lack of water in the body. And drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning can also lubricate the gut, promote defecation, can help us develop the habit of regular defecation.

Many people say the dangers of drinking water early in the morning on an empty stomach tend to focus on the bacteria in your mouth. After a night, the bacteria in our mouth have multiplied, but very much, so it is impossible to drink water on empty stomach? In fact, our stomach acid has a strong effect of killing bacteria, oral bacteria into the stomach acid will soon be killed, especially in the morning when our fasting state stomach acid enough bacteria difficult to survive.

Therefore, in fact, you can drink water normally after getting up in the morning. Under normal circumstances, it is recommended to drink warm boiled water, which is the least irritating to the body and the most easy to accept. However, if you are worried about bacteria, you can brush your teeth or rinse your mouth before drinking, but you can usually rinse your mouth first and then drink, and then brush your teeth after breakfast, which can reduce the amount of food residue in your mouth after breakfast and reduce the risk of bacteria growing.

It's good to wake up in the morning and eat on an empty stomach, but it's not good to skip breakfast altogether.

Not eating breakfast is more harmful than drinking water on an empty stomach, breakfast should be eaten to eat

The first and most direct is stomach damage, because hunger leads to a large amount of gastric acid secretion in our stomach, long-term do not eat breakfast gastric acid on the gastric mucosa sustained damage, prone to gastritis gastric ulcer and other diseases.

Secondly, because of the fasting we need to participate in the digestion of bile can not be released, such a long-term lead to bile accumulation in the gallbladder, it is easy to appear cholecystitis, gallbladder stones and so on.

Then, the body can not get sugar supplement without breakfast, which directly affects our brain function, such as poor memory, impulsiveness, irritability, sleepiness, fatigue and other problems, which directly affects our work and study efficiency.

Finally, don't eat breakfast also prone to hypoglycemia, leading to fatigue, serious will lead to coma shock.

To sum up, skipping breakfast is very harmful to our body, and drinking water on an empty stomach in the morning may cause some bacterial problems, but the bacteria in our stomach acid is not a big threat, so rinsing your mouth before drinking water is not a problem.

After getting up in the morning how to arrange the time, in fact, is a lot of people's problem? Some people may have their own habits, but others tend to have messy mornings, even waking up late for work, and arriving at work sleepy, tired, and hungry.

Morning is the golden period to raise the body, in order to do 5 things is appropriate

1. Stay in bed for five minutes when you open your eyes

You read that right. You have to sleep in first. When our bodies are newly awake, the blood flow is slow and our internal organs are not ready. Getting out of bed straight after opening our eyes can lead to constriction of our blood vessels, dizziness problems, and acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. Accordingly, this time WE can choose to lie in bed first, the hands and feet that move on the bed, get up again after 5 minutes.

2, a cup of warm water to eat

The benefits of a cup of warm boiled water have been said above, improve blood viscosity, promote blood circulation, find the runchang defecation, can also supplement the water consumed overnight, usually 200 to 300 ml of warm boiled water can be.

3, two stool

In the morning we should develop a regular defecation habit, after drinking water itself can promote our gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase stool meaning. Under normal circumstances, we can try to defecate, there is no relationship between stool and long-term adhere to try defecation, slowly can cultivate the habit of defecation on time.

4, wash gargle

After defecation, we can wash thoroughly, brush our teeth and face, etc., to ensure personal cleaning to relieve facial tension and fatigue, and make people feel refreshed.

5. Have breakfast

Breakfast is the beginning of the day, our breakfast is the most important to eat rich, many people tend to have only carbohydrates for breakfast, but in fact breakfast should ensure balanced nutrition. You can choose to eat steamed buns, steamed buns and other traditional Chinese breakfast, or bread, and then with vegetables or fruits to supplement vitamins, some can eat raw vegetables such as lettuce, cucumber, tomato and so on is the lack of time to choose. It is also convenient to choose fruits such as bananas, apples and oranges. Then supplement protein, milk, soy milk, eggs, lean meat and so on are good choices, this breakfast nutrition is more balanced, also help us start the day.

After eating breakfast, you can brush your teeth, or rinse your mouth to remove food residue, so that our mouth is not easy to grow a lot of bacteria in the morning, and it is not easy to have bad breath.

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