Drinking soft drinks during meals, besides inducing the inherent harmful effects of those drinks (acidity harms the stomach, carbonates eat up the bones and crunch out calcium stores, and sugar results in diabetes and metabolic syndrome), is a bad habit because the beverage dilutes the digestive secretions of the stomach. Since fluids leave the stomach faster than solid food, beverages tend to carry out the digestive juices of the stomach and the stomach is left without sufficient juices to function properly.
Drinking with a meal also encourages poor chewing of the food since it is frequently washed down in a swallow of water or other. Normally food must be thoroughly mixed with saliva in the chewing process for it to be easily swallowed. Beverages replace the role of saliva in this respect, and allow for the gulping of half-chewed food.
Beverages are commonly incompatible with the food eaten as well: they interfere with each other's absorption.
When thirsty, beverages may be consumed 20-30 minutes before a meal. After a meal consisting of fruit, water can be taken within half an hour; after a starch meal, drinking should not occur before 2 hours, following a protein or fat meal, a full 4 hours should elapse before fluids are taken.
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