What will happen if you eat too much besides gaining weight? Eating less is always good!

As the saying goes: Eat a good breakfast, eat a full lunch, and eat less dinner. If you are happy, you should eat more; if you are unhappy, you should eat even more.

That being said, is eating too much really good for your health?

After eating too much, I still felt bloated even after untying my belt, and I couldn’t fall asleep for a long time lying in bed. I also felt the pain of wanting to vomit but not being able to, wanting to defecate but not being able to. Eating is fun for a while, but eating too much will lead to a "crematorium"!

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Eating too much will not only make you regret it, but more importantly, it will harm your body!

A study by the University of London in the UK shows that eating 40% less can extend your life by 20 years. Eating less is also very effective in preventing cardiovascular disease, cancer, neuronal degeneration and other aging diseases. In addition, some doctors also said that if you eat too much, the peristaltic space of the entire stomach will become smaller, which will cause food accumulation. Once food accumulates, it will cause qi stagnation, which will cause blood stasis and phlegm in the stomach. Therefore, you should eat until you are 70% to 80% full, leaving space for the stomach to move and empty effectively, so as to ensure that the entire digestive tract is unobstructed.

What happens to your body if you eat too much?

1. Accelerate aging

After overeating, a large amount of blood is concentrated in the gastrointestinal system for too long, causing ischemia of important organs such as the brain and inability to metabolize normally, which will advance the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

2. Obesity and multiple diseases

Overeating of the "three highs" food leads to overnutrition, making it very easy to suffer from obesity and induce other diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc.

3. Affect heart function

If you eat too much, the bloated stomach will easily cause the diaphragm to move upward, affecting heart function. In addition, in order to digest and absorb various nutrients, the body's metabolic oxygen demand will greatly increase, which will also greatly increase the heart load level and easily cause acute myocardial ischemia or myocardial infarction.

4. Increase the burden on the stomach and intestines

If the stomach is always full of food, the stomach not only cannot get rest but also has to secrete a large amount of gastric juice. In the long run, it will damage the gastric mucosal barrier and cause gastric erosion and gastric ulcer.

5. Causes fatigue

Overeating can cause slow brain response and accelerate brain aging. After people have eaten their fill, all the blood in their bodies goes to the gastrointestinal system to "work", which can easily make people feel tired and drowsy for a long time.

6. Increase the risk of cancer

Some scientists point out that eating too much will reduce the activity of factors that inhibit cell carcinogenesis and increase the risk of cancer.

7. Osteoporosis

Long-term overeating can easily cause excessive decalcification of bones, greatly increasing the risk of osteoporosis.

8. Kidney disease

Overeating can damage the human urinary system because too much non-protein nitrogen needs to be excreted from the kidneys, which will inevitably increase the burden on the kidneys.

Why does eating too much affect heart function? This is because after a full meal, especially after eating a lot of greasy, high-calorie food, the body's blood lipid level suddenly rises, causing blood viscosity to increase. On the one hand, it will cause blood flow to slow down, increase peripheral vascular resistance, and increase heart load; on the other hand, it will cause platelet aggregation to increase, forming thrombus on the basis of coronary artery stenosis, blocking the lumen and causing acute myocardial infarction.

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After a full meal, in order to digest and absorb food, blood will be re-diverted to the gastrointestinal tract, which will reduce the blood supply to the coronary arteries. If the blood supply is reduced due to coronary artery stenosis, myocardial blood supply will be insufficient, leading to myocardial ischemia and necrosis, which may cause myocardial infarction. Therefore, when eating, you should avoid "eating fast, eating a lot, and eating violently".

In addition, overwork, excitement, cold stimulation, constipation, smoking, heavy drinking... are also common causes of myocardial infarction, and we should also pay attention to them in daily life.

Why is it recommended that you eat less?

Because there are so many benefits.

1. Can reduce the burden on the stomach and intestines

If you eat a lot at every meal, your stomach and intestines will be in an overloaded working state for a long time (repairing damaged gastric mucosal epithelial cells and secreting a large amount of gastric juice). Over time, it will cause damage to the gastric mucosal barrier and gastrointestinal dysfunction. Eating less is beneficial to intestinal peristalsis, allowing gastrointestinal digestion and absorption functions to function normally, and will not add too much burden to the digestive system.

2. Effectively control weight and reduce the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

As we all know, it is easy to gain weight if you eat too much and don't exercise. Obesity is an important factor in causing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, etc. Experiments have confirmed that reducing daily food intake by 25%-30% can more effectively control weight than a normal diet. At the same time, it can also help people regulate blood pressure, blood lipids, blood sugar and heart rate, and has a better improvement and prevention effect on cardiovascular diseases.

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3. Relieve fatigue and improve work efficiency

I believe many people have had this experience: after eating too much, the whole person becomes very tired, drowsy, slow to react, and even loses energy. This is because when you eat too much, the blood in your body goes to help the stomach and intestines digest, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the brain. In addition, the increase in blood sugar in the body after a full meal will also lead to a decrease in blood oxygen supply, which makes people's mental state worse. Eating less appropriately can help alleviate this symptom and carry out work and study better and more smoothly.

4. Prevent Alzheimer’s disease

When people eat too much, a fibroblast growth factor is induced in the brain, which can cause cerebral arteriosclerosis, leading to insufficient oxygen and nutrients supplied to the brain, memory loss, brain tissue atrophy, and increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. Some experts have found that about 30%-40% of Alzheimer's patients have the habit of long-term overeating in their youth.

5. Can delay aging and prolong life

Scientists once conducted an experiment with monkeys, the closest creatures to humans. Two monkeys of similar age, one ate normally, and the other only ate half the amount of food. In the end, they found that the monkey that ate normally looked older. Research data from Yale University School of Medicine also showed that reducing calorie intake by 14% can reduce inflammatory responses during the aging process, improve immune function, and activate potential lifespan. This shows that eating less does have a certain effect on delaying aging and prolonging life when nutrition is met.

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This article is compiled from Tencent Medical Dictionary, Workers' Daily, 39 Health Network, and Science Popularization China

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