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Show Use of Drinking Water. Drink whatever water you desire with meals, but do not take Ice water, and do not use water merely to wash food down your throat. Water aids digestion di-gestion by helping to liquefy the food and by bringing the gastric Juices Into closer contact with the food particles. Water does not affect the enzymes and weaken them by dilution as some people peo-ple maintain, because the power of the enzymes depends not on the percentage percent-age which is present, but upon their total amount und chemical composition. |