Office workers have obese abdomen! Wu Mingzhu: Lift your feet more after meals

Office workers often suffer from overwork and abdominal obesity. In addition to physical condition and work pressure, "eating too fast" is an invisible killer. Chinese medicine practitioners point out that many office workers often work overtime and finish a lunch box in 2 to 3 minutes. Not only do they sit for a long time, but it also causes great harm to the spleen and stomach, which contributes to the formation of obesity. Therefore, it is recommended that in addition to chewing slowly, it is also recommended to simply lift your feet and exercise after a meal, or take a walk, which can improve your health, help your spleen, and avoid abdominal obesity.

In her book "Wu Mingzhu Teaches You How to Take Care of Your Spleen - 35-Year-Old Is Like 25-Year-Old", practicing female Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu pointed out that it is important to avoid obesity due to overwork and abdominal obesity, and to develop the habit of chewing food slowly. This is because chewing food can promote the secretion of saliva, which contains ingredients that help digestion. The longer you chew, the more saliva you secrete, which can help the spleen and stomach to carry out their work of transportation and absorption of nutrients faster.

Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu (pictured) personally demonstrates the leg-lifting exercise to help office workers lose weight. (Photo by reporter Jiang Minjun)

Chewing slowly reduces the risk of obesity due to overwork

Generally speaking, the habit of chewing slowly has many benefits. In addition to nourishing the spleen, it can also help lose weight, because food is carefully chewed through the mouth before entering the stomach. There is a gap of about 30 seconds to 1 minute between each bite of food. The stomach can react to the feeling of fullness in time and inhibit the central nervous system of the brain from taking in more food.

Office workers often suffer from overwork and obesity, and eating too fast is the culprit.

But if you eat like a guzzler, you often realize you are overfull and feel uncomfortable in your stomach after you finish eating. Your stomach is enlarged and your spleen is damaged, so of course you will gain weight. Therefore, developing the good habit of chewing slowly as early as possible can nourish the spleen, maintain a good figure, and reduce the risk of obesity.

Taking a walk after a meal helps the spleen meridian digestion

In addition, Chinese medicine practitioner Wu Mingzhu emphasized that after a meal, the spleen and stomach need a lot of blood and energy to carry out digestion and absorption. Therefore, you must not engage in strenuous exercise at this time. However, if you often sit still after a meal, the spleen will become weak for a long time, and the transportation and transformation work will not be done well, and fat will begin to accumulate.

Taking a slow walk for about 30 minutes after a meal can strengthen the spleen and stomach and relieve symptoms of obesity.

In order to make the spleen more active to transport and transform food, you can develop the habit of taking a walk after meals. However, if you are an office worker, it is recommended to do more leg-lifting exercises, alternating left and right 20 times. This can give strength to the spleen meridian without taking away blood and causing indigestion. Remember; don’t sit after a meal. Stand up and walk around. Taking a stroll will not only help you develop a good temper, but will also prevent you from gaining weight. It is a very good health-preserving habit.

Lift your feet more often when sitting or standing to maintain your health without hurting your spleen

I would like to remind everyone that the habit of taking a walk after meals is most important after dinner, because at night the yin is strong and the yang is weak, and taking a walk can increase the strength of the spleen meridian. However, remember to go for a walk about 15 minutes after a meal, and walk slowly. Never walk fast or jog, because after a meal, the blood should be concentrated in the stomach to help digest food. Once the blood is diverted to the limbs, it will cause indigestion.

Basically, taking a slow walk for about 30 minutes after a meal can give the spleen and stomach the strength to function without overworking them. This allows you to digest dinner without working overtime, and it is good for your health without hurting your spleen. It is best to develop this habit every day. After all, the spleen is afraid of sitting for a long time. If you sit on the sofa after work and after eating, the spleen cannot move, so of course it will turn nutrients into fat, making it difficult not to gain weight.