The habit of reading news or watching videos while eating can disrupt the work of the digestive system and deprive the body of the energy it needs to digest food. About thisPravdaElena Solomatina, nutritionist, candidate of medical sciences, told
According to the nutritionist, the brain does not distinguish between real-world events and virtual content, so it reacts to the information by releasing stress hormones. That tension affects digestion and suppresses the body's natural signals.
In addition, there is a danger of disrupting the mechanisms of satiety. when attention is focused on external information, the brain ignores signals from leptin, the satiety hormone.
"When a person is fed by watching videos or reading news, their brain shifts their attention to processing that information. This blocks satiety signals, causing the person to eat more than necessary. Digestion is pushed to the background, because at that moment the brain is busy with something else," explained Solomatina.
