For the majority of the people, eating a
late dinner is just one of those things. They seem to have taken it for
granted that since it’s dinner anyway, it could be eaten anytime after
dark! And that’s why many people eat dinner as late as 10pm or 11pm for
that matter.
Yet physicians warn that the later our
dinner comes, the more danger we expose ourselves to when we try to
sleep immediately afterwards. One of the reasons is that as the day
wears on, the average person is less active, and any meal can send us to
sleep immediately, especially as we are also bogged down by the concern
for the next day.
Indeed, there have been cases where
people actually regurgitate their (late) dinners through the nose,
sometimes getting suffocated in the process.
Again, says the General Practitioner, Dr.
Peace Asiodu, “Sleeping over a late dinner gives you heartburn, as your
acidic stomach contents rises back up into your oesophagus. Apart from
heartburn, you also risk other avoidable health concerns due to eating
later dinner.”
This being the case, what is the
appropriate time to have a crisis-free dinner? Asiodu provides the
answer: “You can have your dinner anywhere from 6pm but ideally, not
later than 8pm.”
Noting that even after dinner, anyone
might still crave food, the physician advises eating fruits instead of
any of the heavy foods such as cassava meals, amala, fufu, pounded yam,
etc that we are wont to take for dinner.
But beyond this, what benefits are
accruable to you when you make it a habit to eat your dinner before
dark? Plenty, experts say.
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