WATER IN THE HUMAN BODY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 84, 9 December 1913, Page 4

WATER IN THE HUMAN BODY.

Discussing late physiological findings, Dr. L. F. Meyer, a German authority, states that the water of the body varies with age, kind of nutriment, and

state of nutrition. More than half of the total water is in the muscles, which contain 77 per cent, by weight, and the lowest proportion is in the fat, with only 10 per cent. Xew-born infants are 70 per cent, water; adults, only 58. The nursing infant consumes much water, and needs 170 parts for every 1000 of its body weight, while 35 parts suffice for the adult. Certain foods—the carbohydrates and fats—act as watefstorers, causing often a

surprising increase in water absorption. A sign of a sound constitution is water in stable combination ip. the cell, and for good nutrition it is sought to avoid the storing of excessive, aud unstably combined water, which renders th,e individual liable to succumb to disease from trifling causes, A new observation is the unsatisfactory condition of many breast-fed infants. With good and sufficient food, as usually measured in beat-units, they have mysteriously, failed to gain du weight, agd only, after a long tinle was it found; that they lacked sufficient of the water to which growth iis so largely due.