Dec 22 2004, 10:09 am
In response to Hedgemistress
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Rockinawsome
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Wouldn't you get the cramps because of the amount of exercise? I don't think it has to do with floating so much as if you do any type of exercise after eating that is extremly strenuous. I don't know, I'm no doctor, but just a guess.
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I would have thought that moving about in water (effectively going around and around etc.) would make you sick up your food.
Plus, blood is redirected to the stomach, meaning you have less power to swim with- with an increased rate of drowning. | |
Wouldn't you get the cramps because of the amount of exercise? I don't think it has to do with floating so much as if you do any type of exercise after eating that is extremly strenuous. I don't know, I'm no doctor, but just a guess. Strenuous exercise after specifically OVER-eating might make you sick to your stomach, especially if the food consumed is something that would irritate your stomach anyway... but according to the thorough research of snopes.com, not a single death has ever been reported where swimming after eating was cited as a factor, and although many people who wholeheartedly believe the myth have suggested mechanisms for the cramps which they describe in graphic detail, they haven't done any studies or duplicated the effect... they're merely describing an implausible and complicated chain of events that seem to support what they already "know" happens. The idea that it has something to do with the stomach suddenly being deprived of the extra blood-born oxygen it needs for digestion is pretty silly. How much blood do people think it takes to digest food? And if that extra blood is suddenly unavailable, why would the stomach cramp up? It should just return to its normal, non-digesting levels, giving you at worst a case of indigestion. | |
Well you get sleepy/woosy from eating too much food- blood going to the stomach.
Being sleepy while swimming = :( | |
Yeah I don't think it's the swimming that spawned that line of reasoning "don't go swimming 15 mins after eating" (whatever it is), I think it holds true for any form of exercise, you get sick and could throw up, especially if you over-ate.
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See? You've changed your explanation when your previous one was debunked... that's a sure sign this is just an ingrained myth.
If you have to keep making stuff up to explain something you think you know... then start thinking about what you know. :P The stomach isn't some all-powerful arbiter of who in your body gets blood and who doesn't. As always, when the rest of your body starts making demands, things get re-allocated. You know the advice given to avoid the post-lunch fatigue syndrome? Light exercise. Swimming is a perfect way to get the ol' blood flowing. | |
I understand why it's supposed to be funny... but for the love of goth, nothing is less funny then somebody pointing out a misnomer or oxymoron with "Have you ever noticed...?"
If I had a time machine and a single bullet, I don't know if I'd go for Jerry Seinfeld or Hitler. | |
You spelled it completely correct, he was just using the British way of spelling it. Kind of like color and colour.
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Kusanagi wrote:
You spelled it completely correct, he was just using the British way of spelling it. Kind of like color and colour. You say Tomato, I said Tomato- Damn typing! I want DMCGI Voice Recognition! | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
If I had a time machine and a single bullet, I don't know if I'd go for Jerry Seinfeld or Hitler. ;_; Not Jerry | |
Rockinawsome wrote:
I think it holds true for any form of exercise That can't be true. I eat breakfast then jog down the Gym straight away all the time and the worst thing that's happened to me because of that is I forgot my water once. | |
Everybody's body is pretty much different. That doesn't work for me. If I eat, then goto the gym and do cardio (which I do before I start lifting), if I ate atleast three or four hours beforehand, I will get a horrible, horrible cramp in the middle of my run. I usually just run through the cramp but it hurts incredibly. So I make sure not to drink or eat three to four hours before I work out. I don't know why my body works like that, it just does. The cramp is ten times as bad if I drink water before running.
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as those that believe elderly people should 'conserve' energy and not do much, most likely. Of course, in reality more active persons of any age show demonstratable better health both physically and mentally. Early medicine was often as much superstition and conjecture as proven fact. Some turds of wisdom managed to stick (starve a fever, feed a cold, don't swim after eating, cold weather causes colds, etc). Why? Because people like to re-affirm things they "know". It is not a new phenomonina- in the 12th century we "knew" the world was flat (though the Egyptians "knew" otherwise centuries earlier...). By the 1800's we "knew" racial differences accounted for different abilities (despite being wholly arbitrary distinctions made by theorists with no knowledge of historical human migration patterns and lacking in empirical sociological and genetic data). Now we "know" all kinds of things.
In reality, learning is a process, not a fixed state. Those who refuse to question their beliefs often fall into a crystalized state of ignorance that jealosly protects itself. Sometimes, this is amusing and benign (as the eating before swimming myth). Other times it is much darker (as in the rise of fascism). I wonder how many people who believe the eating before swimming myth also believe strong, unquestioned leaders are necessary to protect the people and their values... hmm.... | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
See? You've changed your explanation when your previous one was debunked... that's a sure sign this is just an ingrained myth. :) I havent read this whole topic but only a little bit of post. So I would just like to say your suppose to eat before you work out. Im not exactly sure how long before or what and am sure that people will differ between others. | |
Jmurph wrote:
In reality, learning is a process, not a fixed state. Those who refuse to question their beliefs often fall into a crystalized state of ignorance that jealosly protects itself. Sometimes, this is amusing and benign (as the eating before swimming myth). Other times it is much darker (as in the rise of fascism). I wonder how many people who believe the eating before swimming myth also believe strong, unquestioned leaders are necessary to protect the people and their values... hmm.... Infact, Hitler's very own "Mein Kampf" starts off with the classic line: "Du must nicht essen und dan schwimmen" | |