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the water runs stale and warm through the faucets, and is consequently
not so palatable, man will gradually get out of the habit of drinking normal
amounts, and will lose his natural instincts and acquire a perverted “secondnature”
which enables him to go without water without feeling the distress
which a natural water-drinker would feel under the same circumstances. But
Nature does not forget—she remembers, and resents the fact that she is
not being furnished the proper amount of fluids that she needs in order
to carry on her wonderful work. She takes it out on the body, by allowing
it to shrivel up, and exist in an abnormal, unhealthy condition. And these
abnormal conditions are many.
One is filled with surprise when he looks around and sees how many
persons go through the day with a consumption of fluids far below the
natural requirements. They take merely a sip or two of water, during the
day, and their consumption of fluids consists almost altogether of what they
obtain in coffee or tea, at meal times, and perhaps a glass of soda, water, pop,
beer, etc., during the day. They turn their backs upon Nature’s Fount of Life.
Is it any wonder that so many people are suffering with constipation and
congested colons? Is it any wonder that their bowels are clogged up with
the refuse matter of their systems, when they do not irrigate the canals with
sufficient water to carry away the debris. No wonder their bowels are like
dry sewers, caked with the foul matter which has been deposited in them
as the waste products of the system. Women particularly are the principal
offenders in this respect, although it is difficult to say just why.
These water-famished people are troubled not only with constipation, but
their livers and kidneys do not work properly. Their blood supply is below
the normal, and they exhibit a bloodless, anaemic appearance, and tend
to “go into decline” early in life. Others, from the same cause go about with
dry skin (showing seldom a trace of perspiration); pasty, sallow complexions,
and a foul breath. Some of them resemble dried apples, and one instinctively
wishes that they could be put into soak to make them plump out and look a
little natural. And of course, all the other parts of the body, particularly the