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What time is better for afternoon tea?
2024-06-26
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For white-collar workers, it is common for them to eat too little or too hastily for lunch, and their stomachs croak around 4 pm. At this time, you might as well have a balanced afternoon tea, which can not only drive away the sleepy people, but also help to build a beautiful body.
An experiment proved that people who have the habit of drinking afternoon tea have an average of 15%-20% higher memory and resilience than others. As we all know, Westerners pay great attention to afternoon tea because it can inspire the spirit, improve attention, eliminate fatigue and improve work efficiency.
He Jiguo, an associate professor at the School of Food at China Agricultural University, said that extra meals around 4 pm can just help people maintain their energy until dusk, which in turn makes dinner lighter and develops good eating habits. But afternoon tea and simply eating snacks are different. The calories of snacks will be stored in the body, and afternoon tea, like other meals, a considerable part of the calories for the body to consume. Therefore, afternoon tea must be served like a meal. Generally, 2-3 kinds of food with complementary effects can ensure balanced nutrition. For example, a cereal food (biscuits, bread), with a dairy product (yogurt, soy milk), or a seasonal fruit, of course, there are drinks, water, tea can be.
In addition, British scientists have also found that drinking afternoon tea is also of great benefit to reducing blood lipids. To prevent increased cholesterol levels, not only with the food you eat, but also with the number of meals. The researchers suggested that it would be more beneficial to lower cholesterol if the amount of food eaten in three meals a day could be divided into four, five or six meals.
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