Is this information true or false? Help it's freaking me out.?

None of it is true. Where did you find this nonsense? Because who ever they are they are seriously misinformed.

When you eat, the food is broken down - it does not rot. Nor is any acid created by the food. Stomach acid is naturally created by our own bodies. Note how this person warns that you should eat fruit at certain times to avoid certain symptoms, to then go on to say that those symptoms will happen anyway! Contradiction alert!!

I think the best bit is about the cold water - I would call it bad science, but there is no science at all!! So lets break this down step-by-step.

~ "the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed" - water does not solidify oil. Air does, and this is a slow process. Think about this - recently we saw footage of the oil spilling out from the sea floor as a result of the BP disaster. Did it ever look lumpy or solid to you?

~ "It will slow down the digestion." - Well this statement was based on the previous premise that the oil in your foods was not solid. So was the food you ate to start with. It may be mushy now, but its still a solid for most intended purposes.

~ "Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food." - wait so the solid oil is now a sludge?! Contradiction alert!! Anyhow, once it reacts with the acid it would be absorbed at much the same rate as the rest of the food.

~ "It will line the intestine" - How can it be absorbed AND still be in the intestines? Its either in your blood or in your gut. It can't be absorbed from one place and yet still remain.

~ "Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer" - The oils in your food may turn to fats... if you don't exercise. Now this really is the crux of the argument - fat will turn into cancer. WRONG!! A cancer is a growth of cells that has become so big it prevents things around it from functioning properly. Not fat, cells.

The only thing remotely true was the first sentence - fruit is important.

Where did you get this from? It sounds like a load of nonsense .

Is this something from a religious text? I have never heard of anything like this and I've done all the diets going , really what a load of BS !

Go by the World health organisation's ideals not some crazy religious text that is unfounded , the NHS know their stuff.

The usual 5 a day , semi skimmed milk , the acid in the stomach stops anything going rotten , unless this was a text to prepare for the dying? For mummification perhaps?

Food will rot in the stomach of a dead mammal .

Gasses that make you burp are usually because we've swallowed air in as we were chewing the fruit.

so why would food rot in your stomach in a matter of hours yet it takes days to do the same outside the stomach??

Nothing goes directly into your small intestine, it all goes into stomach first so the stomach acids can break it down so the nutrients can be absorbed by the small intestines

.Bread cannot 'turn to acid" It does turn to sugars however as that is how it is absorbed.

Your stomach already has acid in it, thats what starts to break down your foods.

So everyone who has cancer drank cold water after a meal.

Really?

So what about all those millions who also drank cold water after a meal and DONT have cancer.

This is hogwash.

NO. None of this is true firstly our stomach is lined with acid the acid is used to digest food nothing turns into acid the acid is already there it's essential to our bodies and we all have cancer within us when we're born but things trigger it like smoking it increases the chance that the cancer can be triggered HOWEVER drinking cold water after dinner WILL NOT .. cancer is not caused by fat or fatty cells in the body they're completely un related so anyone who told you this is either mentally retarded... or mentally retarded o___o

False.

The fruit won't be "prevented" to get through to the intestine,

it gets dissolved by gastric acid and turned around by gastric muscular movement.

Food does not rot in your stomach you simply digest it :)

The reason some food takes longer to digest is this: The time it takes to digest a kind of food is not only calculated by the time it stays in your stomach, but also by the time it takes the intestine to absorb all vitamins, etc. until it finally finds it's way out.

sounds like rubbish to me,

all components of the food triangle are important. fruit and veggies however contain micro nutrients ( vitamins and minerals) which are important in helping break down macro nutrients ( protein, low cellulose fibre, carbohydrates, fats and oils ) down ....so fruit on their own are not the most important foods, veggies also are crucial.

Digestion begins when food is broken down by saliva, and chewing, then it is further simplified in the stomach and lastly enzymes around the small intestines are brought into the intestine . enzmes break down individual nutrients into blood size energy bundles. intervase breaks down starches, proteases breaks down proteins e.t.c. and then from the intestines these simplifies nutrients are absorbed into the blood stream......Nothing sits and rots......

bloating occurs when food cannot be completely broken down and when these particles reach the large intestines, bacteria feed on the food particles and produce gas and acid. This gas comes out ( well you know where) at bad timing ha ha...this also happens to people who are intolerant to food, e.g. "lactose intolerance " milk sugar cannot be digested, so its up to the bacteria in the large intestine, which means gas and acid again.....same with bread for some ppl

2. because (part 2 ) bile is produced out of the gall bladder which delivers it into part of the large intestine during digestion. and this helps to digest the fat and oils in your food...sludge is therefore digested.

cold water ....well its better not to drink at all during a meal, however most of us do.. drinking water weakens the hydrochloric acid in our stomachs. Digestion still continues, but at a slightly slower rate, by the way water is easily digested by the stomach so it wont have a major effect on digestion.

Some restaurants have certain drinks which are bitter, these beverages are designed to help digest large meals like pastas.

Cancer?!? well eating the wrong foods increase this risk rather than drinking cold water, drop fats and oils and pick up more water i say ...

So everyone who has cancer or died of cancer drank cold water after their meals. Sure, just eat in moderation and don't worry about it. Eat everything and anything in the Basic Five Food Groups and a little of other things BUT IN MODERATION and exercise everyday. Just don't indulge in the good stuff or overdo it.

P.S. I got that same e-mail.

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Fruit is important as a part of a balanced diet.

Thats not true at all.... I have a cold glass after dinner... u get cancer because its in your family...