The Washington times., 1920-05-30

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a corresponding delay In digestion. The
best temperature for drinking water is
about so degrees F."
He warns against the drinking of ice
water when one is over.fatigued, however.
Another idea is that food In the stomach
swims around in the water drunk with
meals and will not digest.
IF the human stomach were constructed
Of concrete or copper an aquatic simile
might hold" writes DR.. Hawk in the same
book. Fortunately. however, most stom-
achs are not so constructed. Instead. the
lining Of the stomach Is a very delicate
membrane studded with little workshops
(glands) where the gastric fluid or Juice
Is manufactured. Certain things will
stimulate these glands to greater activity
and cause them to make the gastric fluid
more rapidly. Water is one OF the most
important OF these, In fact, one-fifth OF
glass Of water, under proper conditions
will cause the outpouring OF consider
able volume OF very active gastric Juice
from the lining Of the stomach. Conse-
quently the subsequent digestion OF the
food proceeds more satisfactorily than
would have been the case had no water
been drunk"
Most people believe that drinking milk
slowly is better than drinking It rapidly
tecause. they think, that milk taken very
slowly curdles in small curds in the
stomach. and that these are more easily
digested than what are supposed to be
large curds OF rapidly drunk milk OF
this DR. Hawk writes:
This line of reasoning sounds logical
enough. but unfortunately, II is wholly
false Our experiments have clearly DEM
onstrated that curds formed in the
stomach when the milk is drunk slowly
are fully as large as those which follow
rapid milk drinking This point was
nicely shown by test upon our regurgita-
tor One day he drank pint OF milk in
ten seconds. and on the next day at the
same hour he drank the same volume OF
milk In ten minutes In each instance we
examined the contents Of his stomach at
the end of half-hour Not only were the
curds larger when the milk was drunk
slowly. but the total weight Of the com
bined curdsl was greater than when the
milk was passed into the stomach with
maximum speed. The curds were OF prac-
tically the same consistency In each case
We may conclude. therefore. that the rapid
drinking of milk in no way interferes with
its proper digestion in the stomach
Then there is the old BELIEF that not
bread causes indigestion
mo-" exclaims DIR. Hawk. 1T has be
come pretty we'll established In the scien-
tifc and lay mind that fresh bread is
'notoriously indigestible, and leading
books on dietetics have emphasized this
view. Our tests. however, failed to show
this notorious indigestibility.' we fed
bread direct from the oven and so not tnat
the steam rolled out In clouds when the
loaf was cut Then two days later we ted
bread from the same batch to the same
men. and failed to find any marked diner
ence in the stomach digestion OF tne
breads. We did note, however, that the
hot bread generally left the stomach some
what more slowly than the bread which
was two days old. We could secure no
evidence OF the formation OF 'dougny
mass In the stomach after the hot bread
was fed In fact, the samples OF tne
stomach contents withdrawn at snort IN
tervals while the hot bread was In tne
stomach were very similar In character TO
those withdrawn after the two-day' bread
was eaten.
"Hot bread has a very pleasing navor.
and II the bread he properly chewed mere
Is no reason why II should not De eaten.
Hard. boiled eggs are supposed 10 pc IN
digestible. In his volume DR.. Hawk de
clares they are not They are digested
more slowly. He found that II taxes the
stomach thirty minutes longer to empty