Review: we are 98% water - so drinking water makes perfect sense
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
When I first came across this book I was drawn to the title. As a water drinker, I have always chosen water over any other type of beverage. Coffee for me is only drank with pastries, and “soda pop” has never appealed to me very much. Unlike Tiff, the girl in this story, I have always eaten a healthy diet. Whereas I was a “bean pole” growing up, Tiff had to face a world where everyone called her “fat” and most looked down on her because of this. Unlike Tiff, my family stayed together, so her “unhappy childhood” was hard for me to relate to. The size of our family is entirely different; Tiff, a single child to my #3 in a family of 9 children. But this would however put us in a similar wage-bracket, and thus the same economic struggle.It amazes me how many people “get healthy” due to “health issues” or “fatal diseases”. In this story, Tiff, suffered a heart attack, and because of this she turned her life around. Unfortunately, this led to her “fashionable clothing” and being noticed, finally, by her “first boy-friend” in college and of course the fatal break-up, when she was “embarrassed” to eat “skinny food” ( ie: salads, which are my absolute favorite food) and the inevitable down-hill spiral into the “fat” world again. She over-came this with the help of her Mom and the H2O Diet.I knew a lot about water drinking, when and why, but I learned something new by reading this book. It was my understanding that if you drink water during your meal you are diluting your digestive juices, but in this book I read that by drinking water with your meal you help “the stomach and the intestines as the body tries to pull vitamins and minerals from the food we eat. In addition . . .  drinking a glass of water approximately forty-five minutes after a meal can help to clean out the digestive-tract from any lingering food that could cause heart burn and other discomfort to the body.” This is good advice for me and am glad to have ran across this valuable information.