Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1906-09-13
DRINK WHEN YOU EAT
TAKE AS MUCH WATER AS YOU
WANT WITH YOUR MEALS.


"a IL Excellent For the Digestion, 1t
Is JiHimed, ns Neither Gastric Juice
Nor Pcpsin work Properly Unless
Largely Diluted With Water.
How much water should we drink
md when should we drink it are ques
discussion seems supcrnuous. One
would naturally answer, Drink all the
water you wish when you are thirsty"
but authorities say. Drink more than
you wish when You are not thirsty"
for they recommend that a gallon or So
hc drunk between meals, which is
more water than we need and the very
time thc system least demands it. Us
Haily we experience thirst during or
directly after eating.
Inasmuch as 81 per cent of the whole
body is water, which is, Of course, be
ing used up every moment, there is no
question that we should drink of this
element copiously, but it is serious
question whether we should refrain
from water ut mcalS-the time we par
t!cularly desire It.
There is class of persons, ever
growing more numerous, that believes
that whatever IS is wrong. For the
natural and simple they would substi-
tutc the artificial and complicated. TO
Il, y,-l,i !,
Ing is a natural instinct Give a dog
his dinner, putting a bowl of water
near il, ana observe that he will first
cat all he can ana then Immediately
jr.nk. WIZ animals look for n stream
aitcr fccd.IG Cage birds will stop
py.EinE at seed to peck at water. Chil
drpa have a perpetual thirst. and I
have seen babies that, unlike young
OIil cr have refused to eat more when
denied water after every few mouth
frs.
L Is especially important that babies
." g'g"n what water they wish and at
':.r tine they wish it, which is usually
1T table
III" thi4ncr food is the more easily
ana th)"o"El,y Is it digcstcd; in fact,
it cauE I IL, Gias';;"I until It has been
made liuuiu ~ He gastric and intesti.
nal Juices Indiss. zion is caused often
by food that has no; been sufficiently
moistcned by tie digestive @rcretions.
There are sound physiological rea
sons for orr craving water with meals.
Water IS the solvent that constitutes
% per cent of the gastric juice. Now,
when one eats a hearty meal and does
not drink. tie amount of water In the
stomach is rot sufficient thoroughly to
mOisten the great quantity Of food,
ana this L...,..; j........i,l difficult On
the othc. g.. -, ST. - enough water is
inge5tel viii ..ry food the latter is
we'll moiStcli'l ana broken up, the di-
gestibc particles being then readily
acted on by the ga,t.ir iui"e a..I after
ward abs 81 II. A.:jin, when The par
TALLY digesirl floi trhymn' masses into
the intest.n,.i it i; iaGst iD!I.r,;nt that
IT be very moist, particularly as water
is constantly absorbed from Tie chyle
i'm tha IoI.p. intestine Pal cases of
constitution NJ, cavsrI hr L!.y chyle
remgiujn- In th, H.. .,:iuc-. Where il
se.s nm an Inflammation that some
tiuc- prove: falI dry faces. of
cour,n rasi>+.ue. r.rietn,tic rction The
,,-,,..,,,,,t "a. ,,.,.s.,,,, 20. rr,o.ir,, fro,.,
constin,+;o, l. alv-avs dry ana hard
ana =, , ,.,+o,t .,uso of onnondicitis
Tho 10, at ,ro+or drInling ot
oo,l. ,rnlr,,. 1rutos tho gastric iuico
Is nons,.n ,ical water being not SO pal
otabIr That one IS ant TO drink mora
tb,n hi. digestive functions reo,Iire
A, n,,tto,. cr FACT u.otar ganeraIIv
facilitates tho digestion Of alhuminous
Substances In this connection DR.. 4.
I.cohi in his u,orl, IN "Infant DIET F"
,,,, ~ oovS
"In ovne,imeats mon digestion Of
oihr,ran with aastric mice obtained
from the stomach ot animals II was no
flood tbot oftnr n ccrtoin timc the proc.
o,.s. I,ac,,n to eIac,,ap hu+ was renewed
merely IN, 1he addition of wafer The
caatli, mice became saturated with
tho e,,b.tonca if had dissolved and
calGl.. IN t,st UDDn what renamed lln
fiji if had been diluted. In the living
stomach This diIution is of even greater
Imnortancc fo. it permits of the i'm
mediate ABSORPTION of the substances
soluble in water and which do not re-
ouirc the specific action of the gastric
iuicc" Nc!,hcr the gastric juice nor
peys.n has any true digestive action
unless they he LARGELY diluted with wa.
fer
II rors witrcut saving that ii is not
tbc food that is inccsted. but that
which IS di2ested, that does good, and
this principle hold GOOD with water,
which il practically n food. Now.
yhan ono resi- is the perfectlv natural
dosira to dripi, while eating he NAV be
NOT tb,rstv several hours afterward,
1T ho 10 ndrisnd navertheIess to force
b,msaIf to drinl, ot that time. But if
ho drinl,s thnn the wafer. having no
Ell 70 mix with If will 90 through
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