Danger of Drinking Water Before Lunch and Before Sleep

Dangers of drinking white water before meals

To reduce excessive eating a lot of people drink water first just before eating. Should get rid of the habit, if you want a drink before dinner do it an hour before a meal.

Consuming too much water just before eating it makes you lose your appetite because the stomach becomes full. But drinking water just before eating will make the process of absorption of food by the enzyme becomes more difficult.

Because the water you drink took 30 minutes to flow from the stomach into the intestines. So if you drink just before eating, the water had not been added into the intestines with the food that makes enzymes work harder.

Professor Hiromi Shinya MD, an expert on the enzyme which is also professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine USA, as quoted from his essay, ‘The Miracle of Enzyme’, Saturday (20/2/2010), suggested that drinking water is 1 hour before meals.

Ideal way to meet the water needs for the body is:

1-3 glasses when I wake up in the morning

2-3 cups, one hour before lunch

2-3 cups, one hour before dinner.

Dangers of drinking water before bed

Drinking water just before bed can prevent backflow. Although only the water, when mixed with stomach acid into the throat and can be inhaled into the lungs which feared the risk of suffering from pneumonia.

Get used to sleep on an empty stomach because the throat is designed so that no one goes into it than the air. If there is any food or drinks, the stomach contents will spill up into the esophagus when you lay down. When that happens, your body will narrow windpipe and stop your breathing to prevent stomach contents into the throat.

Many incidents of people dying from a heart attack at dawn. The reason is that the acid flows back as a result of eating or drinking late at night, and ends at the closing of the respiratory tract, and so irregular breathing, blood oxygen levels decrease and eventually lack of oxygen supply to the heart muscle.

According to note is that drinking water after waking up for the lost fluid must be quickly replaced when I wake up. Not advisable to drink water before bed, but if very thirsty, can be done one hour before bedtime.