Show INDORSE WATER WITH MEALS medical association journal says that it promotes promote it a secretion of gas altri trie juice r to 10 an inquiry about the effect of drin drinking k ing water meals the editor ot of the journal or of the khz american medical association replies the immediate effect ot of water during a meat meal Is certainly one of dilution however this fact lias has been overemphasized by those thoe who aie are adverse to the drinking of water with meals tor for it has been shown indubitably b by several investigators working on dog and man that water itself promotes a secretion of castric gast ric juice and that when water Is given shortly before or with a meal it has f a very definite effect in increasing the secretory response of the stomach as regards volume of juice and acidity A given amount of water hag bas less and less effect on gastric secretion the longar the time interval between the meal and the giving of water sutherland ivy has likewise found that the ingestion of water with tile the meal increases the amount and the tree free and total acidity of the gastric juice incidentally the ingestion Ingest lon of water with meals decreases the emptying time of the stomach eto mach jr |