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Why one should not go for swimming soon after food?
-- Manjunatha Bhat (mbhatudupi@c4.com), January 07, 2002
Digestion takes energy. Exercise of any kind after eating a normal or large meal can cause stomach cramping. Special attention to swimming/drowning...
-- jjj lll (jjj@aol.com), October 17, 2003.
That is an urban mith Swimmers eat all day long at swim meets and before practice. the stomach uses a different energy source for digestion. now eating twinkys before a work out may slow you down in a race but it will not make you drown
-- Coach Ben (swiftswims@cona.net), December 22, 2004.