The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-15
DRINK TOO MUCH WATER
AMERICANS OVERLY FOND or THE TEETOTALER'S FAVOl;ITE
BEVERAGE" ACCORDING TO THIS SCIENTIST.

and carries away. But we lose water
also, in a very large measure. in the
form of perspiration. Il forfeiture of
the essential liquids in h body
which must he compensated for.
When a mar like DIR. Fabre, in
Paris. tolls us to drink as little water
as w" possibly can, relying on the food
VIC take for our supply, he may have
in mind a form of diet which con-
tains a portion of water foreign to
American practices-large quantities
of soups, milk and weakened wine.
liquid foods in a volume commonly
unknown to us. we are bound to set
up a water famine in our bodies
which a entail grave penalties Of
disease.
Note this: The cells of which the
human body is composed are prac-
tically living bodies. living animals.
them. and into that fluid they dis
charge the wastes of their existence.
The chances are that the first living
cells, the primal orders of animal
creation. were water cells, living i'm
the sea. We find in our w bodies
not pure water. but a saline solution,
somewhat less pronounced in its salt
content than sea water. Can we re-
create all the ages of animal evolu-
ton?
Water enters into the chemical
composition of our tissues. 1t forms
the chief ingredient of all the body's
fluids and preserves their proper de-
gree of dilution. By keeping moist
the body's surface. 1t prevents the
1T furnishes to the blood and the
lymph the fluid medium by which the
food is conveyed 10 the remote parts
OF the body. the wastes are removed
and bodily heat is distributed. 1t
regulates the physical processes of
absorption and evaporation.
"Cnde conditions of too little wa.
ter the kidneys fail to function prop
erly. n the wastes they should elm
mate are not carried away. Condi-
tions of administration ensue which
are positively poisonous. The It's
sues lose their elasticity; the body's
chemical processes cannot duly pro-
coed. The liquids that are required
to wash out the stomach and intcs-
tines are lacking. And so we find
manifestations of the body's water
famine in such disorders as consti-
patton. gall stones, calculi, a tendency
TO govt, cannes and mental depres-
sion, for the blood not being purified,
the brain does not work freely and
INC sufferer loses his sense of we'll
being.
one need only take the records of
accurate measurements that have
been made of the discharge of water
from the body to comprehend how
open are the facilities for its loss and
how essential is the need of it's re-
nowal. Through the skin we lose
t~Wcnty-eight per cent; through the
lungs twenty per cent-breathe on a
mirror and observe the water con-
d"nsed from the moisture-laden
breath; through the Kidneys fifty per
cent. and through the bowels, two per
q
"1t is. Of course. possible to indule.
IN an excess of water, by which some
of the bodily functions can be over
worked or impaired. The fact is that
excuses either way are to be avoided,
because humanity is made on he
moderate plan. But with the ten
dcncy toward abstinence from this
essential liquid to become pronounced,
We must safeguard rather against
deprivation than excess"
And Just what are moderation and
enough in water dr%inking?" DR.. SOL
is-Cohen was asked.
Well" he replied, II used to ad.
wise my patients to drink from six to
eight glasses Of water a day."
So there you are supplied with the
prescription of n leading authority Of
the United States.