Water Drinking

The healthy body is composed of about 66 per cent, water. But few people drink water enough. Such articles as fresh vegetables, salad, fruits, milk and eggs contain enough water to bring the moisture of each meal up to the 66 per cent, require­ment. If a meal is composed of such articles as do not contain the required amount of water then the deficit should be made up by drinking with meals.

The "washing down" process, however, should be very carefully avoided. Water should not be taken into the mouth with the food, or at least until mastica­tion is perfect.

Water is the most prolific thing in our food and the largest constituent element of the human body, and while a volume might be written upon its importance and use under the varying conditions of the body, in sickness and health, age, atmospheric temperature, work, etc., etc., yet in this treatise I have only room for suggestions.

In order to promote good digestion and give the body the percentage of moisture Nature demands, the seden­tary worker in normal temperature should drink from one to one and a half quarts of pure water every day.

If exposed to the heat of summer's sun engaged in labor or much activity, from two to three quarts of water should be drunk.

Water is Nature's great solvent and cleanser. It serves several very important purposes in the human body.
First, as a solvent or an aid to digestion.

Second, as a carrier of food atoms into the cell.

Third, as a means of eliminating body poisons.

Much care should be exercised that water be pure.

To induce copious water drinking fresh spring or artesian well water is much superior to the boiled or distilled article.

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