What happens if you drink water while eating? or Why you should not drink water while eating?

It is a grave mistake to drink water while eating. It lays a foundation for gastric problems. Now that you have changed your diet by giving up salt, oil and spice, you won’t feel thirsty and so don’t need water. Earlier, you consumed all these and so to digest them you drank more water in the course of eating and after, affecting your stomach.

Why you should not drink water while eating? Hydrochloric acid produced in your intestines digests food that you eat but it becomes diluted if you drink water while eating and after. So it cannot digest food easily and the process takes twice the time, but still not digested properly. As a result food will be in the stomach for a longer time. For example, if you apply soap to a soiled cloth and wash it immediately, the dirt is not completely gone. Instead, you soak it in soap for a while and see how bright the cloth becomes. The same theory applies here.

In fact, no other creature ever drinks water while eating or immediately afterward. They are showing you the natural practice of the dharma of water. They drink only when their stomach is empty.

Our elders tell us one mistake leads to another. You commit one crime by eating spicy, greasy food. You add fuel to the fire by drinking water with it. You may wonder how you can avoid drinking water while eating. But you won’t feel thirsty if you eat raw vegetables or fruits. It is a natural food because it is a food of dharma, and it automatically leads to the dharma of water. That’s the difference between good and evil.

There is yet another loss which results from drinking water while eating. Water taken on an empty stomach comes out within fifteen minutes, but water consumed while eating remains in your stomach along with the food. That’s why all human beings, even those who do hard work grow a belly.

Water drunk during meals causes even more heaviness. Food becomes heavier with water and pressures the lungs and the heart. So we should not drink water for two hours after eating. After that, a glass or two will suffice. The water will then join the food that is grinded and together they will become liquid and join blood in the intestines. At that time you will feel thirsty and you need to take water.