Drinking While Eating
♦ Nature never intended for people to wash down their food while earing. J'he has wisely placed salivary glauds in various, places in our mouths; they, secrete a fluid for the moistening, besides a chemical action ot th<^ food after mastication. This gets the food in a suitabie condition for swallowing Drinking yiwy-tt^r' r 'h»-i i riuttes' while eating prevents the u««ual flow of saliva ; also it washes it down before it cen have a chemical action on certain^Bor'tiong of tlie food. One of the most pernicious habits to lualth is drinking several tumblers of water ■while eating; better drink warm drinks. The stomach. will not digest ono particle of food when it has a temperature below 100 degrees Fahrenheit; neither will" it digest one atom of f<wd unf^LalLthe fluid is fligt absorbed.*^WMt!s pMr^h 'iAotiWi drink more than a halt-pmt ot some mild fluid while ta"King food, anil or four hours after. _
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 59, 20 May 1884, Page 3
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154Drinking While Eating Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 59, 20 May 1884, Page 3
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