The adverse effects of smoking on nutrient absorption

Smoking is harmful to health, as we all know, many smokers will replenish nutrients intentionally, to reduce the harm of smoking on the body caused by the. But the absorption of these nutrients supplement and how?

The effect of smoking on the body of food intake:

1.Smoking can cause taste dysfunction and loss of appetite. Long term smokers, the surface of the tongue taste buds (taste buds in charge of taste, can make the person feel the taste of the food) will gradually be destroyed, resulting in loss of performance for taste, feeling when eating less food taste, delicious meals, tasteless, can not effectively stimulate the appetite center in the brain, so have the appetite, thereby reducing the nutrient intake. Smoking is the fundamental method for treating this disease. Taste very easy regeneration, a. Taste very easy regeneration, after quitting, taste bud rapid regeneration, taste will return to normal, and can feel the smell of the food.

2.Smoking can cause reflux esophagitis, food intake.

Smoking can be applied to the vagus nerve decreased lower esophageal sphincter tension, easy cause reflux esophagitis. Heartburn and acid regurgitation, produce, and even cause difficulty in swallowing, food intake. People suffering from the disease is very painful, smoking can significantly reduce the disease, eliminate pain. Because other diseases caused by smoking, will also affect the nutrient uptake.

Smoking can affect the body's absorption of nutrients:

1.Smoking can directly damage the nutrients. Smoking can hinder the body's absorption of vitamin C, nicotine in tobacco to bag manufacturer vitamin C has damaging effects, smoked 1 cigarettes can destroy 25 ~ 100 mg of vitamin C. Therefore, smokers prone to vitamin C deficiency. Research shows that smokers, need to add a lot of nutrients, especially vitamin A supplementation on the pigment, vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium and other antioxidants.

2.Smoking can cause chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer disease, affect food digestion and absorption. Smoking can cause increased gastric acid secretion, increased 91.5% in general than non-smokers, and can inhibit the secretion of pancreatic bicarbonate, resulting in increased acid load induced ulcer, duodenum, manifested as stomach pain, do not want to eat, weight loss. Nicotine in cigarettes can act on the vagus nerve system, make the function of gastric bowel movement disorder.

3.Smoking will cause malnutrition, unbalanced diet will increase the hazards of smoking. After years of study also found: fasting smoking will stimulate the stomach, make gastric acid hypersecretion, vasoconstriction caused gastric ulcer; smoking reduces the blood transport oxygen ability, lack of peripheral vascular nutrition, thus lead to rough skin, aging, wrinkles, dark complexion, even appear limbs paralysis, shoulder and bag factory neck pain also acid associated with smoking.