Have you noticed how long you go without eating? Nutrition experts recommend eating three meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner, and including a couple of snacks between themwhich means you should eat about every 3-4 hours throughout the day.
When you stop consuming food for more than 6 hours while you are awake, the effects of the lack of nutrients will be reflected in your body, in symptoms such as weakness, dizziness, headache and lack of concentration.
If you do it constantly for long periods of time, you have a greater risk of being overweight and presenting diseases such as diabetes, gastritis, and neuronal damage.
What is this about? By not eating food for several hours, the body leaves the brain without glucose, that is, it runs out of the fuel that makes it work. For this reason there is a lack of concentration and memory, and over time neuronal damage can occur.
On the other hand, by not receiving food, gastric acid constantly irritates the stomach. This causes heartburn and gastritis, which can eventually lead to stomach ulcers.
And if you are one of those who skip meals to lose weight, this is actually counterproductive. After several hours of fasting, hunger can make you eat the first thing you find, even if it is not the healthiest optionor that you consume a greater amount than you really need.
In addition, spending many hours without eating causes the body to enter a state of starvation, that is, the brain sends the signal that there is a shortage of food. As a reply, the organism is prevented, it slows down the metabolism and reserves fat to protect itself in case the shortage is prolonged.
What specialists recommend to avoid all this is have regular schedules for food intake, as well as choose well what you are going to eat to maintain a balanced diet.