Julie Jarvis wrote:
>The one thing that got me was the rule
>about not drinking water before? meals or something because
>it would dilute the stomach acid too much so that you
>couldn't digest well.  This doesn't make much sense, because
>your stomach juices have SO much acid that it would take
>mega amounts of water to change the pH level much at all.
>Check it out with your local high school chemistry teacher.

I find that drinking a lot of water with a meal does indeed interfere with
my digestion.  I attributed this effect to the dilution of stomach acids.
Is there another explanation?  (Dilution of enzymes perhaps?)

Cheers,
-- Aaron Wieland