Colorful quinoa salad with fresh vegetables creates a healthy, balanced meal.

FOOD FACTS & MYTHS

Food Myths are present all over the world lets crack some of them :

Every other day a new research publishes and contradicts some of the old ones. In past there had been several myths about food and nutrients consumption ,with modern knowledge many of those myths have been cracked and are listed below.

A male swimmer in a green cap and goggles competing in an open water race.

Is swimming dangerous after a good meal ?

Some say you shouldn’t swim after. Why is that ?

This myth originated in early 1900s but there is no medical evidence which can prove swimming is dangerous after eating food.

Well it can be a little difficult to swim or exercise with a full stomach. Also food take almost four hours to digest even longer if meal include lots of fats. The myth says that during digestion blood moves from muscles to stomach so its harder to swim with no energy in muscles but there is no medical evidence about this and our body has enough oxygen to provide energy to muscles .