By Kim and Jason Kotecki
No doubt you’ve heard the cautionary tale.
If you jump into a lake or swimming pool immediately after eating, there is a very high probability that you will cramp up and drown or get sucked into the pool filter or get eaten by lake sharks. Or something equally terrible.
False.
According to the American Red Cross and scores of doctors, including and Dr. Charles Smith of the Family and Preventative Medicine Department at UAMS, there is no medical evidence to support this myth. “In reality,” says Dr. Brian Udermann of the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, “There has never been a documented case of someone drowning because they had a large meal before they took a dip in a lake or a pool.”
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