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Originally Posted by gberardi  Wow, really? I've had problems eating certain foods without drinking something to help. Otherwise, I can get hiccups, I think specifically with sticky foods like peanut butter or beans. Then again, maybe I am eating too much too quickly... |
I look at foods as either clogging or cleansing. Foods that are rich in water are cleansing foods as they contain the water your body needs to process them. It's a really good way to increase the amount of water in your body because water rich foods like vegetables contain filtered, live sources of water inside them.
When you eat clogging foods, that is foods that are not water rich like a peanut butter sandwich, you would naturally have to sip some water with it, but I try to combine such foods with water-rich foods like soups and stuff. So if I'm going to have a sandwich and it doesn't have a lot of veggies in it, I'll eat it with a soup and use that to send the food "down the pipe".
If you must drink fluids, sip enough to help you swallow, but don't forget to chew as that coats the food with saliva and try to save your water drinking for in between meals.