| Show overweight individuals 0 overweight individuals will cut down on bread potatoes pastry butter and cream in an effort to reduce their weight but will continue to drink large quantities of water and other liquids because liquids do not put on fat strictly speaking liquids do not put on fat tissue but they do put on weight and they do prevent fat from being used up as readily as it would be were the liquids not taken it a matter of water not being good for all mankind water is the very first thing needed to maintain the proper working of the body just as food Is needed to provide the structure of the body but the body at all times has a good supply of water on hand and only needs a certain am amount boulat every day to keep its needs supplied just as you see storage tanks of water on the roofs of factories to be used in an emergency so all your tissues have bare a goodly supply of water stored away this water Is not in any one place like the storage tank but in and about all the tissues and actually forming part I 1 of the tissues themselves when you exercise and the perspiration pours out on the surface of the tha skin then your tissues have given up that much water and you are just that much lighter in weight some fat tissue has been used up by the exercise but water makes up most of the weight lost if however after exercising and losing all ali this water or even it if you simply perspire without taking exercise and because you feel thirsty drink doln three or four glasses of water then immediately ined lately you are just that much heavier again with those of normal weight this perspiring and Is helpful to the system in fact it Is helpful also to the overweight individual in a general way but as a matter of fact he need all this water and it only increases his weight in other words the tissues and spaces of the hold so much more water than he needs that he has really too large a storage tank of water thus if he loses considerable water by perspiration and uses up some of the water in his storage tank he Is bound to lose some of his weight copyright service |
