Guts & Black Stuff

I recently answered a question on fitness.stackexchange.com asking about how the timing of drinking water would affect health or weight gain during a meal. My original answer was drawn from my earlier post here  Don’t Drink And Digest, but while that has recommendations a desire was expressed to see “proof”. So here it is:

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I’ve noticed that when I’ve eaten with friends & families from different cultures (Chinese comes to mind) that they often don’t drink anything with their meals. In some cases it was a minor, but official, taboo akin to putting your elbows on the table, and in others it was not stated but just not done. It turns out that there is a physiological reason to do this.

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