Swimming After Eating
You probably know that you have to wait 30 minutes after eating to swim again… well, that’s not true. The origin of this myth comes from the idea that our stomach uses plenty of blood from our limbs to digest food so we wouldn’t be able to swim. The truth is that our bodies work just perfectly regardless of what we’re doing, so swim away!
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