What are the dangers of not eating during menstruation?

Women have their periods every month, and unless they are pregnant or have irregular menstruation, their periods will come on time every month. During the days when menstruation lasts, many women will suffer from dysmenorrhea and physical discomfort, so their appetite will become very poor, and some women even do not eat during menstruation. This is a very wrong approach. Even if you have a poor appetite, you should still eat what you should eat. So, what are the dangers of not eating during menstruation?

What are the disadvantages of not eating during menstruation?

1. Makes you slow to react: Breakfast is the source of energy for brain activity. If you skip a meal, your body cannot supply enough blood sugar for consumption and you will feel tired, exhausted, unable to concentrate, lack of energy and slow to react.

2. Chronic diseases may occur: If you skip meals and start the day's work with an empty stomach, your body will mobilize glands such as the thyroid, parathyroid, and pituitary gland to burn tissues in order to obtain energy. This will not only cause hyperfunction of the glands, but will also make your body acidic and lead to chronic diseases.

3. The stomach and intestines may "rebel": skipping meals and eating only at noon will cause the stomach to be hungry for a long time, which will cause excessive secretion of gastric acid, thus easily causing gastritis and gastric ulcers.

4. Constipation "comes out of the cage": When three meals are eaten on time, the gastrocolic reflex phenomenon will naturally occur in the human body, which simply means promoting defecation. If skipping meals becomes a habit, it may cause gastrocolic reflex disorders in the long term, thus causing constipation.

5. It will make you closer to obesity: Once the human body realizes that nutrition is deficient, the first thing it consumes is carbohydrates and proteins, and the last thing it consumes is fat. So don’t think that skipping breakfast will help burn fat. On the contrary, skipping breakfast will cause you to eat more at lunch and dinner, which will make you fatter instead of losing weight.

During menstruation, you should be careful about what you eat. You should try to eat mild food and never eat irritating food, such as chili peppers or peppercorns. Moreover, if you want to go out for social events during your menstrual period, you must not drink alcohol, otherwise it will cause great harm to your body, and you cannot drink iced drinks either.