Smoking is bad enough, but after a meal, it’s ten times the killer. Yep, that’s right! Cigarettes contain at least sixty carcinogens (which, by the way, cause cancer). So, cigarettes are bad for you after meals, and before meals, and in the office hours, and after or before that… well, in short, they are bad for you all the time. My suggestion, steer clear of them. As simple as that!
Fruits are recommended by almost everyone, be it some expert dietitian, or just some inexperienced house-wife. But few of them know that fruits just after any meal can be harmful, and thus neglect to mention it to you. Fruits are the easiest to digest, and just take 20 minutes to travel from your stomach to intestines, where they are finally digested (bananas and dates being the two exceptions). So when you eat a fruit after a meal, it gets stuck with the food, thus not travelling in time to the intestines, and getting spoiled as a result, thus spoiling food too.
Or coffee. They both have their benefits when consumed in a limited or moderate amount. Obviously, excess of anything is harmful. It is suggested by most nutritionists that tea should be consumed at least one hour after any meal.
Waiting 30 minutes after a meal in order to take a shower is the best suggestion one could give on this topic. Digestion needs a lot of energy and blood flow in our body. But when we take a warm water shower, blood flows towards your skin to release off the heat, thus making it difficult to digest.
On some weekends, I plunge into bed after lunch. More often than not, I wake up still feeling full from the meal. The meal has not been digested at all! A nap immediately after a meal is also not relaxing.
Experts claim that chilled water and even cold beverages contract your blood vessels, thereby restricting digestion. It also hinders the natural process of absorbing nutrients during digestion.!
