It is to give the parents 30 minutes or so at the picnic before they have to go back to keeping an eye on the kids in the water.
Well, that all depends. If you have just eaten some crappy airline food, and find yourself in the Potomac, or any other body of water, I would recommend swimming.
Well I’d hate to any heavy aerobic activity after a large meal.
45 minutes wait after a meal for activity allows more blood channeled to stomach resulting in better digestion.
I grew up thinking you had to wait two hours, and if you didn’t you’d instantly sink to the bottom.
I have no idea about swimming, but most sports teams eat about two hours before the game.
Also lawn darts are perfectly safe. To catch.
Try telling your Army drill sergeant, “Hey man sorry I just ate I need to wait an hour before doing any more exercise.”
a somewhat unexpected source: the original Boy Scout manual from 1908, Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell.
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So, where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last saturday?
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They’re all resting down in Cornwall
Writing up their memoirs for a paperback edition
Of the Boy Scout manual
My parents lied to me!?? I need to call my therapist!!
Yes, and more than 30 minutes is better.
Swimming after eating is OK?
What? Next they will be telling us masks are useless against respiratory disease, the one-way aisles in the supermarket were useless, the lockdowns were a waste of time and Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine would have saved countless lives.
Depends on how much you stuffed your face with.
But can I run during a thunderstorm?
Years ago, talking elderly Mom, I said ‘Do you hear that thunder over here??’
She said Dont talk on the phone during a storm!!
But Mom, It’s a cordless phone.
Mom: Still, don’t!
Didn’t a lot of celebrities die at 29? If only they’d waited one more minute.
Your body pulls blood to your digestive organs when eating. Exercising overrides that and the messages from the nervous system to your digestive organs, sending blood to your workout organs instead, leading to slow and improper digestion.
My mother still insists that male baldness comes from the mother’s side of the family rather than the father’s side. Every male on my mother’s side of the family has a full head of hair. Every male on my father’s side of the family is bald. I am bald. Thanks, Mom.
Growing up in the50s, we had to wait a whole hour after eating before we could go swimming. it was torture to wait.
My wife and I never imposed this torture on our children. This was exposed as a myth by the 70s.
We grew up with that rule like it was Scripture. 😆