Do Not Eat Immediately Before Swimming

There is a widespread belief that if a person takes a meal immediately before swimming one is likely to get cramps. This is entirely incorrect. Cramps are not enormous tuck-in is bound to cause discomfort but you can certainly have a leisurely swim immediately after a moderate meal. The normal body can easily cope with the swimming and the meal. Provided there is no excess.

The popular concept that it is normal to have a gradual weight gain every year is not true. In the older age groups, it is a definite health hazard to weight 10 or 15 kilograms more than what one used to weight when one was, say, 21, because, with ageing, there is a decrease in muscle mass in old age should be one’s weight in old age should be one’s weight when one was about 21.