Eating right before swimming is “not a contributing risk to drowning” and “can be dismissed as a myth,” the American Red Cross says.
VERIFY asked our readers about some of the food folktales they’ve heard over the years, and which ones they’d like to see fact-checked.
According to this advice, it’s dangerous to swim immediately after eating because your body will need to direct blood to both your digestive system and your muscles at the same time. So you run the risk of drowning either because you’ll allegedly get severe cramps, or because your limbs won’t get enough blood flow to keep you afloat.
While your body does need to distribute blood to your stomach for digestion and to your limbs for physical activities like swimming, there is plenty of blood to go around.Bwalya Lungu, Ph.D., a food science and food folklore professor at the University of California Davis, explained that the body and brain know how to balance its processes to send whatever you need wherever you need it, including blood for both digestion and muscle activity.
If you do get a muscle cramp, while you’re swimming or doing anything else, it’s likely caused by dehydration, overuse of a muscle, muscle strain or simply holding a position for a prolonged period, not because of blood going multiple places at once, according to the.
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