Why drink water while eating?

 

Previously, somehow I did not notice such a need, but here I have been recently in a place where they constantly bring water before meals and during meals. And you know how it even got used to wash down with water in the process of eating.

 

However, you can often hear that it is harmful to drink while eating. Most do not listen to this and still drink water and other drinks, both after and during the meal.Is it all really scary or drinking water when eating food, on the contrary is it useful?

We will now talk about this and discuss different points of view. 


Recently, they often asked the same question: is it possible to drink water (or any other liquid - tea, coffee, compotes, etc.) during meals or immediately after meals.Allegedly, some "healers" assert that it is strictly forbidden to drink water during meals (or immediately after meals), that supposedly must pass at least 2 hours after eating, and only then it will be possible to drink.

Explain this "healers" as follows: Say, the water taken during or after meals, flushes food from the stomach, and the food after that is poorly digested. And, they say, the water liquefies the gastric juice, which also allegedly severely interferes with the digestion of food in the stomach. And, in fact, part of the truth in this myth is. But not at all in the mechanism that various illiterate "healers" describe to us. 

But immediately I want to say responsibly that drinking water with food (or right after) is possible. This water does not wash anything and does not dilute anything.Different speculations now and then come crashing down on our heads. It's good that we start believing them less and less.

 

The fact is that the stomach is not just a leather kurdyuk, where everything falls, everything is mixed up there, and then this mixture goes on. Everything, to put it mildly, is somewhat more complicated. 

In the stomach there are longitudinal folds. On the longitudinal folds of the small curvature of the stomach water quickly passes to the pylorus of the duodenum and quickly leaves the stomach. At the same time, water practically does not mix with gastric juice. 

Therefore, it does not matter when you drink - during meals, before meals or after meals. In any case, the water that enters the stomach, and then into the 12-colon, will not be able to dilute any gastric juice, pancreatic juice, bile, or intestinal juice. All the talk about liquefying the gastric juice with water is speculation and absolutely baseless. 

Therefore, drink water when you want, and do not attach importance to the statements of "healers" - innovators.



And in fact, if the water at least in the least interfered with digestion, then any soup would cause irreparable harm to the body ... But people eat soups for years, and everything with their digestion is normal. Moreover, I know that every day "you must eat something zhidenkogo." A gastritis is most often earned by the absence of liquid food. 

So, the conclusion is the first: you can drink before meals, during and after meals.This does not put digestion in any way. 

But ... Nevertheless, there is one big BUT ... 

Let's start with the background. 

In the practice of Soviet radiologists (Prof. VD Lindenbraten, 1969) there was such a case. It was necessary to achieve retention of the barium porridge in the stomach for the time necessary for X-ray study. But it turned out that if porridge is given without preheating (immediately from the refrigerator), the porridge leaves the stomach faster than the radiologists had time to adjust their then (1969), not so perfect equipment. 

Radiologists became interested in this fact, conducted experiments and found out that if you drink cold drinks (for example, ice water or pepsi-cola with ice), then the time of food stay in the stomach is reduced from 4-5 hours to 20 minutes (more on this in the doctoral dissertation of Lindenbraten Vitaliy Davidovich "Materials to the question of the effect on the heat organism", 1969, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad).



Ie, when you take cold water, food is literally pushed out of the stomach. 

This, firstly, is a direct way to obesity, since such food can not be saturated and the feeling of hunger comes very quickly. Secondly, the putrefactive processes in the intestine begin, because normal digestion, as such, was not. 

By the way, this is the way in which "Mac Donald's" and made himself a lot of money.Drinking food (sandwiches, hamburgers, hot dogs) with ice drinks, a person can never eat fast food, which means he will come back again and again. At the same time for hot drinks - tea, coffee or a fairly high price is set, or they are not included in complex kits, or they are simply not advertised. But the ice "Coca-Cola", or is relatively cheap, or aggressively imposed bright posters and colors. 

But this applies not only to Coca-Cola, all cold drinks leave the stomach very quickly.In the stomach, the preparation of proteins for subsequent processing and digestion takes place. 

Therefore, attention !, if you drink any cold drink after a meal, then the protein portion of the food will not be fully processed in the stomach, the proteins will not be split into amino acids. The food lump quickly leaves the stomach, and the entire protein component will simply rot in the intestine (the unprocessed protein at a temperature of 36.6 degrees comparatively quickly begins to rot). 

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You not only waste your money for food, but instead of benefit you will get harm in the form of intestinal inflammatory diseases (colitis, enteritis) and dysbiosis. I think that on the basis of this observation there appeared a not very literate myth that modern healers like to bring - do not drink water after eating for 2 hours. 

The fact is that earlier in the villages water was not heated, but drank the way it is.And most often (especially in winter) drinking water in the villages is icy. Therefore, in this situation, the ban on drinking any water after a meal and had a healthy meaning. Now, when we drink mostly warm water - tea, coffee, compotes, etc. - this ban has no meaning. 

So, the conclusion of the second: do not drink cold drinks before or after meals. All liquids must have a temperature not lower than room temperature. The same applies to the reception of ice cream: do not eat ice cream after eating, the effect will be the same - the food lump quickly leaves the stomach and its protein component will not be digested. 

Here is another opinion on the topic 

Water should not be drunk not only during meals, but also immediately before and after meals. Water dissolves gastric juice and, leaving the stomach earlier than food, carries with it the enzymes necessary for its digestion. Water should be drunk at least 10 minutes before meals, and preferably - for half an hour. 

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Through how much you can drink after eating? Depends on what you ate. After the fruit - after about 30 minutes, after the vegetables - about an hour, after the carbohydrate food - after 2 hours, after the protein - after 4 hours. 

It turns out that the tradition of drinking tea contradicts immediately two principles of nutrition: you can not drink water in the process of eating and you can not drink liquid immediately after it. If you are not ready to wait so long after a meal, soak for at least half an hour or an hour before you start drinking tea. Another option is to eat your dessert without washing it down. 

There are foods that are much better absorbed, if before use you will soak them for several hours in the water. For example, nuts and seeds. In order that they do not germinate until they are in the ground, nature has provided a protective mechanism: they contain growth inhibitors that hinder this process. But if the seed is moistened with water, the inhibitors go into the water, and biological processes begin there. Thus, the soaked seeds and nuts are digested several times faster, and there are more useful substances in them. The same applies to grain crops. But, of course, you still need to chew them properly. Small seeds (sesame, flax, etc.) will not be digested if you swallow them whole. 

Let's see a few more opinions. 

In the stomach there is a small and big curvature. Solid food lingers in the large curvature of the stomach and there is already digested. But the liquid opposite - flows around the stomach on a small curvature, getting into the duodenum. The process of digestion can last for 5-9 hours, what, all this time not to drink at all? 

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Many people want to drink during and after a meal, but do not do it. But it would be worth it. For the digestive process, the body needs water, which it secrete in the stomach, and water can also go to use from our blood.

Does the water dilute the gastric juice? Ph hydrochloric acid is 1.5-2. And in order to slightly change the level of acidity, you have to drink a large amount of water (about 4 liters). But raising ph to 3 will have little effect on digestion. If water diluted the gastric juice, then there would be no problems with heartburn. I drank a glass of water and all - no problems! Yes, and hydrochloric acid is produced throughout the digestion little by little. And you drank water and she left her stomach in 20-25 minutes. 

Therefore, it is not only possible to drink while eating, but even necessary. But remember, everything is worth knowing. A liter of water drunk for a meal will do more harm than good, unlike one glass. 

But another user slightly corrects 

It is best to drink half an hour after eating, when the food has already begun to be digested. If you drink before meals or during meals, then the gastric juice is diluted and the digestion process slows down, there is a feeling of heaviness in the stomach. 

But if you want to drink, do not torment yourself and endure, drink as soon as thirst has come, no matter what time of food intake it may happen. The body does not have enough fluid, and he screams at you in full voice. Listen to your feelings! 

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One of the popular questions that many ask: is it harmful to drink water before meals and tea - after it? The Internet is flooded with articles that the addition of liquid dilutes the gastric juice, interferes with digestion. So when should we drink?What does science say? 

A small survey among famous people scrupulously watching the figure and health, showed that many try not to drink before, during or immediately after a meal. And some nutritionists talk about the same, arguing that it is especially dangerous to drink before eating. True, supporters of this theory usually find it difficult to cite references to specific studies that support their point of view. 

Is it possible to dilute the gastric juice? And what kind of water is required for this? 

Head of the Department of Normal Physiology of the First Medical University Alexei Umryukhin said that changing the acidity of gastric juice is not so easy even in theory, but in practice it is completely impossible. The body's reserves are so large that even if you drink a few liters of water at dinner, digestion does not hurt. 

Alexei Umryukhin: "The excess water simply sucks and thickens. The contents of the stomach will be digested, the chemical process - digestion - will occur. " Science does not prohibit drinking before, after, or during meals. Moreover, studies show that if you want to lose weight, then a glass of water drunk before eating reduces the amount eaten. And water helps to reduce the feeling of hunger and avoid harmful snacks. Modern science, however, criticizes those who call for drinking at least a certain amount of water per day. Analysis of the experience of a large number of patients does not confirm that there is any benefit from this. The view of physiologists is that one should drink when you want. Scientific view is this: dilute the gastric juice and disrupt the digestive process can only be some inhuman volume of fluid. Water before and during meals and tea after it does not interfere with anything. Drink, if there is a desire, and be healthy. There have also been stories of how the Mujahideen mocked Soviet prisoners during the Afghan war. For a long time people did not give food. When hungry fainting began, they gave fatty hot lamb.Then they drank only ice water. Which led to the folding of fat in the stomach. From the consequences of which the prisoner was dying. And what do you say about this issue? Can you drink water while eating?

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Posted on 1/7/2018 at 08:17