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Show WHY (Tj) DOES SALT MAKE US THIRSTY Q ANYONE who has suffered from nose-bleed or who has tasted human blood knows that It contains s considerable proportion of salt-approximately salt-approximately the same amount as Is present In sea water. This is only natural, because salt is one of the essentials of the body and is carried through it by means of the veins and arteries which feed the different parts of this Intricate mechanism. When an unusual amount of salt Is taken Into the stomach, It reacts In two ways. In the first place, the blood, being already supplied with all the salt thnt It cares to handle, declines de-clines to take on any more and the saline solution remains In the stomach "uncalled for," as It were. Then, too, salt rapidly absorbs water and Its presence In the stomach cau.tes that organ to send out a hurry call for some means of flushing out the excess which cannot he utilized by the body. The sensation of being "thirsty" Is, therefore, merely the manifestation tbrt tl)2 stomnch needs Bomth!np with1 which to dilute the unusual amount of salt Just ns when we feel thirsty from other causes It Is a sign thnt the body needs some kind of a liquid to assist It In Its usual functions. ( by th Wheeler Byndlests. Inc ) |