2007-01-18 01:36:15 · 5 answers · asked by allonmason 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
The fact that your body is immersed in water does not change the content of your stomach. It remains full of food and gastric fluids. If the food is floating in the gastric fluid while you swim, then it would have floated even without you getting wet.
What immersion can do is cause external pressure on the wall of the stomach (by pressing on you skin, which transfer the pressure to the abdominal wall, tissue, etc.) that pressure gets a bit evened out as it reaches the stomach. Still, if you are standing in water up to your neck, there will be more pressure on the stomach than on the oesophagus, giving you the impression that your food is tempted to follow the path of less pressure (i.e., come back up).
2007-01-18 01:45:07 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually no. You see, when you swim the internal components of your body doesn't change. It's the same thing if you eat and lay down on your bed. What happens when you do a physical activity after a meal, is that your organism will take more time to digest it, as you are wasting energy in something else. And just to remember, it's no good to eat and swim. Your muscles may go anaerobic witch means production of lactic acid that causes cramp.
2007-01-18 09:46:33 · answer #2 · answered by Erasmo Carvalho 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity acts on the food the same as when you are out of the water.
2007-01-18 11:34:03 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
it is wrong.
ur food in stomach doesn't effect .
this is just how much pressure ur appling on water that much of pressure is applied by water in opposite direction.
2007-01-18 09:57:10 · answer #4 · answered by Naddi S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2007-01-18 09:40:35 · answer #5 · answered by lisateric 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋