To confess nowadays that one enjoys a drink of cold water is to run the risk of being thought something of a poseur. Doctors, however, agree that if the habit were more widespread the general health would benefit. Not all digestions can stand ice-cold water, but if they can a tumbler of cold water will be found hard to beat as a means of making one feel wide awake. A pinch of salt added will make it more beneficial. For less spartan digestions a tumbler of water with the cold
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