Chew, but Don’t Drink-for better health

Chew, but Don’t Drink 

     Nor should liquids be drunk with the meal, as they negatively impact digestion. “Many make a mistake in drinking cold water with their meals. Taken with meals, water diminishes the flow of the salivary glands; and the colder the water, the greater the injury to the stomach. Ice water or ice lemonade, drunk with meals, will arrest digestion until the system has imparted sufficient warmth to the stomach to enable it to take up its work again. Hot drinks are debilitating. . . . Eat slowly, and allow the saliva to mingle with the food. The more liquid there is taken into the stomach with the meals, the more difficult it is for the food to digest; for the liquid must first be absorbed. . . . But if anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water, drunk some little time before or after the meal, is all that nature requires. . . . Water is the best liquid possible to cleanse the tissues.”