Is showering after eating bad?

Is showering after eating bad?

There are many myths in our daily life. Some are true but some aren’t. When I was young, I used to hear my mom warned me not to take a shower after the meal. She said that it is bad for health and I believe her word. I used to think that it might disturb the digestion because of the change of temperature in our body and finally became my hypothesis.

To prove this myth, I did the experiment 5 times. It isn’t difficult to do just eat and take a shower.

The result is that I had stomachache in the third and fourth, but felt nothing in the first, second and fifth. I think this result isn’t clear so it can’t be use to conclude that taking shower after a meal is harmful. I think the result depends on a variety of factors. If you’re young, healthy and eating a moderate amount of good food then it is unlikely you’ll experience any problems. If you’re older, in poor health and eating too much crummy food then you might experience additional digestive problems.

To explain scientifically, when you are eating, your digestive tract needs high energy which leads by bloody flow to run their system with highest efficiency, but if you take a shower it means that your skin temperature is about to decrease so your brain will order the blood to flow to increase your skin temperature to be normal.

To understand more how important is the blood in your digestive system, just read the text below.

Blood flows to everywhere in your body. It depends on the specific function of the system in different time to deliver oxygen to each cells to produce energy. When you eat, your stomach churns the food for 5 hours, and then it sets along the small intestine. The small intestine decomposes the food in bits that are useful for your body and your blood takes those along to add high energy (which shows in form of heat) to run the digestion well.

So showering after a meal will disturb your digestive system and be able to make you to have stomachache but it doesn’t cause any long-term health problem.

From a practical standpoint, assuming you don’t have a particularly weak digestive tract, I suspect you won’t notice a difference between showering before and after a meal at all.  

Reference:
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http://bestwebhealth.org/Is-It-Okay-To-Shower-After-Eating--Taking-A-Bath-After-Eating.html

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