5. The harm with taking water while eating
All of us have the unnatural habit of dinking water while eating. When one settles
down for a meal invariably one finds a glass or pitcher of water beside him. There
are many ways people drink water while eating.
First type: Some take a glass or two of water and then begin their meal. They
assume that this subsides their hunger and consequently reduces their body weight.
Second type: Some take water frequently to facilitate easy gulping down of food.
Some drink water to stop hiccups.
Third type: Some do not drink water before or while eating but at the end they
consume one or two glasses of water. They believe that three fourths of food and
one fourth of water helps digestion better.
Fourth type: Some drink water only after half an hour or an hour as they find it
inconvenient to drink water immediately after a meal. Nobody has the time or
inclination to find whether taking water while eating food helps proper digestion or
not. Even the doctors who spend several years to study about body of man and
advise people about their health take water in one of the above four ways. Every one
reads books but does not observe nature. Layman, who does not know anything
about medical sciences, and the doctors, who know about it, equally suffer from
digestive problems and take medicines. If we want to know about such small
problems or to overcome them and protect our children we should know the real
issue. If we take water while eating the difficulty in the mouth is different. The
difficulty in the intestines is different. I shall try to explain the problem. To start with
let us take the problem in the mouth.