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Coincidental Email I just got

18 years ago

The email I just received from a friend is coincidental to the sweet tea thread.

According to the email, drinking cold water after a meal will cause heart attacks. You should always have hot tea or soup. (Who drinks anything after a meal?)

According to Snopes, my authority for all suspicious emails, that is a spin off of an old myth about cold water causing cancer. The info there is some interesting reading.

Who dreams up this stuff?

Sue

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Comments (8)

wildchild
18 years ago
Old wives tales will always be around.There will always be some who believe them. Who dreams this stuff up? Who knows? Perhaps the snake oil salesmen who try to sell the antidotes after spreading fearsome anecdotes?
maryanntx
18 years ago
Sue, I also wonder Who dreams up this stuff? And the bad thing is that most people don't take the time to check it out as you did and they just forward it on to more and more people. And many people will believe it!
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talley_sue_nyc
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I drink after a meal--if I didn't get much to drink WITH the meal, or if the meal was sort of dry, or salty.

If would believe that you might get a sort of heartburn if you drink really cold water after a meal--the top half of your stomach will be colder for a moment or two, bcs the cold water will sit on top of all that food, and you'd have a concentrated mass of 40-degree water there. But it wouldn't cause a heart attack, and it wouldn't last long--IF it even happens!
Mystical Manns
18 years ago
I don't like to drink while I'm eating ... so I'm one of those who drinks her drink afterwards. Usually a glass of cold milk, tho.
talley_sue_nyc
18 years ago
Stoney--OMG! Call your cardiologist!!
(just kidding)
joyfulguy
18 years ago
Talley,

Commisserate with me, please - I'm addicted to milk, too.

Old uncle (who'd been slowed down by polio) used to accuse our family of being full of calves.

At least he didn't accuse us of always bawling! We were a rather quiet lot of farmers ... honest, we were!

That was quite a few years ago - I've been over a few roads, since ... but some kidlet-learned habits die hard.

ole joyful
dirt_yfingernails
18 years ago
Aw, Joyful, you know you're just a kid at heart!
glenda_al
18 years ago
I gotta have ice in my water!

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