YOUR HEALTH AND YOU
HEALTH TIPS: WATER! A NATURAL REMEDY FOR SOUND BODY AND MIND ABOUT five pharmacists, each with 20 years working experience, attended a seminar. These pharmacists were amazed when it was said that even babies had to be fed with water if they were to be disease-free and grow normally. One of them gave this illustration. Adults who deny babies and children water as part of their dietary needs, apart from incurring a colossal loss, inflict pain and untold hardship on the innocent young ones. Also, this practice is sinful, as it constitutes deprivation, since the babies could not speak or protest. Now, what is the basis of this notion that water intake is unnecessary for children (babies)? Is this unfriendly act based on the erroneous impression that breast milk is largely water? If all that water is meant for is transporting nutrients right into body cells, then which water eliminates the waste and poison from the cells? Don’t babies lose water through breathing, sweating, urination and d...