Show r 1 p r + M t I I rli I WATER AN AID TO DIGESTION 4 f Medical Investigators Have Concluded Bx That Plentiful Drinking at Meals 1 U Distinctly Beneficial T rNlt + Medical Investigator w hnvc reached the conclusion that Instead of being l t harmful to drink quantities of water with meals It Is distinctly beneficial Recent experiment along this lino arc dcucrlbed In The Now York Medical 1 Journal The writer Bays i Not long ago It was almost the rule I for physicians lo discourage the habit I of drinking water except In minimum Unmounts I with menlB on the ground t hnt the gastric julco was thereby diluted P di-luted and that digestion was Impaired Cand delayed This opinion IB Btlll held by ninny physicians and Is the pet Lv hobby of a great many diet cranks 1 w i and cranks professional and ama > tour On the other band there hove been many who believed that nn appetite i as widely distributed as the desire to 1 drink at the time of eating an appetite appe-tite Been In BO many animals as well aa In man was n perfectly safe guide to trust and that It wan obviously a provision of Nittttrn to supply water I which was needed at thin time Hecent experimental evldenc + eeenm to confirm the latter view 1 The t work of FoHter and Lambert hug shown that water Is I n distinct stlmu i M mini to the gastric mncosa and that Instead of the pretence of wator In the stomach remitting In a dilute gap 1 c trie Juice It on iho other hand occasions ° 7 occa-sions the secretion of a juice of higher concentration than under ordinary circumstances cir-cumstances A More recently Fowler nnd Hawk I have made n study of the mutnbollc Influences of copious water drinking with meals A nonnit man 22 years of ages was studied I for a preliminary period and Hum for n period of five days during which he drank three w quarts of water n lay with his meals The result showed nn Increase In weight of two pounds I |