Have you ever wondered what happens to your body when you eat and drink at the same time? Is this good or bad? The answer to this question was given by medical university students.
This issue was discussed on Quora and the answer given Daniel Layon - a medical student of the University of Drexel.
Do you drink at meal time or not, almost no effect on your digestion. It can not hurt (unless it is a lethal amount of water) and benefit (if you do not suffer from dehydration). Digestion - a term that means the mechanical, enzymatic and chemical cleavage of food. And, as almost every process in your body takes place in an aqueous medium, to say that a small amount of food will help or harm him - is meaningless.
The popular notion that water reduces the acidity of the stomach - just a myth. You can change the concentration of gastric acid in the body only a painful way (for example, damaging the digestive system), but not a glass of drinking water during meal time. PH of your stomach is less than unity. This means that the acidity of your stomach in one million times stronger than the acidity of the water (PH = 7). You have to drink a liter of water to somehow harm him.
Moreover, do not think that your stomach is just a pool of acid. Smell, chewing, and even the thought of food increases the secretion of acid in your stomach. So just trust your body and it does everything for you.