May 01, 2025
A 2019 poll of more than 150,000 people worldwide found that 55 percent of people age 15 and older could not swim unassisted.
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Is It Really Dangerous to Swim After Eating?
Common wisdom holds that it is unsafe to swim after eating unless one waits for some prescribed period of time—usually between 30 minutes and two hours. The belief is that the pylorus, the gate between the stomach and intestines, will cramp up and render the swimmer unable to stay above water.
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