Don't swim after you eat
I along
with almost all New Zealand kids was brought up believing that it was dangerous
to swim within 2 hours of eating a meal.
The risk was getting a bad cramp that meant you would sink in the water
and drown.
The jury's
out on this one. The experts say that a
cramp like that is not likely but that doing any heavy exercise straight after
a meal could cause discomfort. But the
sort of gentle swimming I'm likely to do will not be an issue.
Do you swim
after meals?
I get a stitch/cramp if I swim too soon after eating so I say the myth is true :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't been swimming in years, but back in the day I would always wait two hours :)
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