Is it okay to exercise after eating?

Sports are very popular among people, and it is a compulsory item in physical education. It can make people grow taller, strong and powerful, etc.; eating is also very popular among people, and it can make people grow taller, etc. Some people will ask, is it good to exercise after a meal? Let me reveal the answer to you. Please carefully read the following relevant information.

Running or exercising after a meal can sometimes cause abdominal pain. Why is this? The reasons may be as follows:

1. After a meal, the stomach is full of food, and the gastrointestinal tract vibrates during exercise, causing the mesentery connecting the gastrointestinal tract to be stretched, causing abdominal pain.

2. During exercise, blood distribution shifts from the digestive tract to the skeletal muscles, causing ischemia in the digestive tract and leading to spasm of the gastrointestinal smooth muscles, thus causing abdominal pain.

3. During exercise, the body's oxygen demand increases. People who lack exercise usually have small lung capacity, so when they try to breathe hard, they are likely to have shallow and rapid breathing. This reduces the negative pressure in the chest cavity, causing obstruction of blood return to the liver, which leads to liver congestion and increased tension in the liver capsule, causing liver pain, which manifests as pain in the right upper abdomen.

4. Other gastrointestinal diseases, including appendicitis, happen to occur during exercise after a meal.

In the first three cases, the abdominal pain will be relieved quickly after the exercise stops. The fourth situation is an organic disease. The pain lasts longer than the first three, and in most cases it will gradually worsen. For this kind of abdominal pain, you should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

It is appropriate to rest for a while after a meal, generally 1 to 2 hours before running or doing other physical exercises. A lot of water is consumed during exercise, and various inorganic salts are also lost with sweat, so it is necessary to replenish water in time during or after exercise.

We must be careful not to do strenuous exercise right after eating. Because exercising right after eating will cause a certain degree of damage to your stomach. It usually takes about 5 hours to completely digest the food in the stomach, so we should pay attention to proper exercise to promote our absorption and digestion so as not to affect the body.