WATER AS A BEVERAGE.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 157, 31 December 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)

WATER AS A BEVERAGE.

Few people thoroughly realise the value of water as a beverage, or know how to obtain the greatest advantage from it. The effects produced by the drinking of water vary with the manner in which it is drunk. If, for instance, a pint of cold water be swallowed as a large draught, or if it be taken in two portions with a short interval between, certain definite results follow — effects which differ from those which would have resulted from the same quantity taken by sipping. Sipping is a powerful stimulant to the circulation, a thing which ordinary drinking is not. During the act of sippinpr the action ol the nerve which slows the beats of the heart is abolished, and as a consequenca that organ contracts much more rapidly, the pulse beats more quickly, and the cir* culation in various parts of the body is increased. In addition to this we find that the pressure under which the bile is secreted is raised by the sipping of fluid. A glass of cold water, slowly sipped, will produce greater acceleration of the pulse for a time than will a glass of wine oi spirits taken at a draught, and will ofte allay the craving for alcohol in those w" have been in the habit of taking too m" of it, the effect being probably due t< stmulant action of the sipping. — Sc Siitings.