I have noticed that each of my old friends, ranging in age from 80 to 103 drank plenty of water. Mrs. Fannie Bingham who lived to be 101 years old use to tell me that people should drink one ounce of water for every two pounds of body weight plus one and one half additional ounces of water for every ounce  of beverage they consume containing caffeine, carbonation or alcohol every day. I know you are probably saying everyone knows you should drink water. Yes, but everyone does not do it. America is drastically dehydrated. 

Some of my old friends actually think that water is the medicinal miracle. One such friend said that he believed the reason the drug companies suggest that all medication be taken with water is because it is the drinking of water that provides the cure or relief. He believed that every ailment could be treated and cured by supplying the body with adequate hydration.  

I met a woman in Pittsburgh who told me that her grandmother lived to be 105 years old and drank water constantly. I asked her what she finally died from. She said Grandma was hit by a car while jogging. She laughed when she told me that story, but refused to retract it. 

Water is the least expensive preventive healing gift around. OUR BODIES ARE MADE MOSTLY OF WATER. If you want to live to be 100, start drinking more water. “You better listen to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 In the words of my dad, “You must honor the chair whether it is sitting, walking or lying down.”