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Many people purposely skip meals in order to lose weight or because they are too busy. In fact, this is not good for health. Being late to eat makes you feel weak and you don't feel well. This condition is often called a cold. Late meals are said to be one of the causes of colds. However, is that really so? Come on, see the explanation below.
What is a cold, anyway?
Actually, in the medical world, there is no term catch a cold. Reporting from Kompas, according to dr. Mulia Sp.PD, a specialist in internal medicine at Pantai Indah Kapuk Hospital, said that a cold is defined as a collection of symptoms from a combination of two types of health problems, namely ulcers and flu.
These symptoms include body aches, flatulence, giddiness, or stomach pain, constant passing of gas, nausea, coughing, feeling chilled, and fever.
Eating late is the cause of colds
Colds are a combination of symptoms of an ulcer and flu. The most common symptoms of ulcers are stomach pain, abdominal pain, chest pain, and frequent belching. Meanwhile, flu symptoms include sore throat, runny nose, cough, stuffy nose, and fever. Sometimes, the flu can also make you sore or achy muscles.
So, eating late or skipping meals can interfere with your health. Your body has a body clock called a cycardian rhythm.
The circadian rhythm is a work schedule or shiftwork for every organ of the human body, including the organs in your digestive system. So if you eat irregularly, the sikardian rhythm will be disturbed so that you experience various symptoms.
When you eat late, you will experience stomach cramps. Usually stomach cramps occur due to stomach disease, stomach acid reflux, or stomach ulcers. Even when you skip meals and leave your stomach empty, then eat again after a long time of empty stomach, the stomach becomes bloated and excess gas accompanied by abdominal pain.
It is these complaints about digestion and weakness that are often considered to have a cold. So it can be said that late meals are the cause of some cold symptoms.
However, eating late alone will not cause flu. Flu is caused by infection with the influenza virus in the body, not because you eat irregularly.
What is the impact if you often eat late?
Apart from triggering stomach disease, eating late can also affect your digestive system. Eating late or eating irregularly can decrease the energy used to digest and absorb food. Late meals can interfere with your digestion.
The digestive system processes food continuously for 8-10 hours, so that when you eat irregularly, the body also cannot supply nutrients regularly to all organs and cells.
The body's metabolism also slows down to store calories in the body so that it can be burned for a long time. This will make you more tired, weak, lethargic, even moodYou are so unkind. Your activities will also be disturbed.
In addition, eating irregularly can actually increase your weight. Cycardian rhythms regulate hunger and satiety signals that can keep your body weight ideal. When you eat irregularly, your body gets confused that you are actually full or still hungry.
You might also eat a lot even though you are full. Especially if you skip breakfast or lunch, chances are that when you finally eat it, you'll go crazy and eat a lot. This is what then makes your scale numbers go up.
