A vegetarian needs less water than someone eating higher on the food chain. The best guide to how much water you need is to check the color of your urine. If it's dark and stinky, you need more water. If it's transparent, you need less water. E.I. Spriggs, M.D. ("The Results of Experimen... Read More

According to Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) … "The mouth is the only atomic part of digestion.” Traditional Chinese Medicine associates the stomach with the salivary glands and the tongue. Lying and worry affect all three. G. Iorgulescu ("Saliva between normal and pathological," Jour... Read More

A tooth's sensitivity to heat is generally a more serious problem than its sensitivity to cold. Alternating between hot and cold is worse than hot or cold alone. Furthermore, eating an ice cream soon after sipping hot coffee is more of a problem than sipping hot coffee soon after eating an ice... Read More

Re: Is it true that you'll burn an extra 250 calories a day by drinking eight glasses of ice-cold water? Yes, you'll burn those extra calories, but you'll GAIN weight, not lose it. Those extra calories are burned by interfering with digestion, blood pressure, and heart rhythm. Cardiologists... Read More

Hard water is high in mineral content. Examples include water containing calcite, chalk, limestone, gypsum, dolomite, ferric iron, ferrous iron, bacterial iron, etc. Soft water is low in mineral content. Rain water and distilled water are examples of soft water. Thomas John Graham, M.D. ... Read More