The 14 Health Wonders of Water

Do You Drink Enough Water?    

Water makes up 60% of your body weight, and everything inside depends on water to run smoothly. 

When you don’t get enough water and dehydrate, it strains your body ways you probably never even thought about. 

I will be discussing the downfalls of not drinking enough water, the benefits of drinking enough water, and how much water you should drink bellow. So read on and learn how to live better, happier and longer.  

1. Stay Slimmer With Water

Trying to lose weight? Water revs up metabolism and helps you feel full.Replace calorie-laden beverages with water, and drink a glass before meals to help you feel fuller.

Drinking more water also helps amp up metabolism - especially if your glass is icy cold. Your body must work to warm the water up, burning a few extra calories in the process.

2. Lower Stress With Water

85% of your brain tissue is water. If you’re dehydrated, both your body and your mind will be stressed.

If you’re feeling thirsty, you’re already a little dehydrated.

To keep stress levels down, keep a glass of water at your desk or tote a sports bottle and sip regularly.

3. Water Boosts Your Energy

If you’re feeling drained and depleted, get a pick-me-up with water. Dehydration makes you feel fatigued.

Water helps the blood transport oxygen and other essential nutrients to your cells.

If you’re getting enough water, your heart also doesn’t have to work as hard to pump blood throughout your body. To avoid acidity and fatigue drink cold water.

4. Keeps up your concentration

Your body needs water to help flush out poisons from things like junk food and additives.If you are dehydrated, toxins hang around in the liver, making you tired and unable to concentrate. Water swills the poisons out and gets the system moving again.

5. Reduces Infections


The lymphatic system is your waste disposal system, breaking down toxins like caffeine before passing them into the blood stream. Dehydration weakens the flow of lymph in the system and makes the body less resistant to infection.With Water, lymph flows properly again, fighting infection and lowering feverish temperatures.

7. Stay Regular With Water

Without Water the contents of the colon (lower intestine) can dry out and get stuck, eventually causing diverticulitis. Constipation can also be a problem, because water is needed to bulk out feces.

Along with fiber, water is essential to good digestion. Drinking water, along with taking in water from Fruit and Vegetables, helps to rehydrate this waste.

Water helps dissolve waste particles and passes them smoothly through your digestive tract.

If you’re dehydrated, your body absorbs all the water, leaving your colon dry and making it more difficult to pass waste.

8. Build Muscle Tone With Water

Drinking water helps prevent muscle cramping and lubricates joints in the body.

When you’re well hydrated, you can exercise longer and stronger without "hitting the wall."

9. Banishes Bags

Sunken eyes and under eye circles are signs that you need water. Eyes sink because there isn’t enough water to keep them suspended in the eye socket. Under-eye circles are due to thin skin being bruised as fluid drains away.

10. Stops Cramps

Blood transports oxygen to the muscles for activities such as exercise. If there isn’t enough oxygen in the blood, the muscles create lactic acid which causes painful cramp. Drinking more water helps to keep blood pumped with oxygen.



11. Reduces Cystitis

A healthy hydrated body removes waste with light yellow virtually odourless urine. If you are not drinking enough, the darker urine is more highly concentrated and waste products linger in the bladder, leaving you prone to cystitis and kidney infections.

12. Prevents Fluid Retention

When you are felling puffy as women often do before a period, drinking water isn’t your immediate thought.

But it’s the best treatment for reducing fluid retention.

If your body doesn’t get enough water, it senses there is a shortage and begins to retain every drop it needs for vital daily processes.

13. Keeps your breath Sweet

Bad breath is a classic sign that you need to boost your water intake. Saliva helps cleanse the teeth of bacteria and keeps the tongue hydrated.

Lack of water dries the mouth, leads to furry tongue and prevents bacteria from being washed away, all of which can cause halitosis.

14. Water Reduces Kidney Stones

The rate of painful kidney stones is rising because people - including children - aren't drinking enough water.

Water dilutes the salts and minerals in your urine that form the solid crystals known as kidney stones.

Kidney stones can't form in diluted urine, so reduce your risk with plenty of water!

Things to Consider when Drinking Water

Water in diet is called a life-saver. It is more important than food. Everybody knows about water. It plays important role in our life.

Bellow are a few things to consider when drinking water:

• One should drink a glass of water at a time, otherwise trouble of indigestion occurs.
• Do not drink water before or after meals
• On should not take water, before and after meal as it creates indigestion. Since it dilutes digestive fluid, due to this constipation and indigestion develop.
• One should not take water immediately after urination and taking sun bath.
• We should take water early morning before going to toilet, patient should be given boiled water to drink.
• Whenever you feel thirsty, immediately drink water. Don’t drink water in standing position because it harms to knee, so always drink water in sitting position.
• Don’t take water while you are empty stomach, take jiggery then drink water.
• Don’t go running or jogging after drinking water.
• Should not drink water when you lay down.

How much Water should You Drink?

Generally, nutritionists recommend we follow the "8x8 rule." In other words, drink eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. You may need more water if you exercise or sweat heavily. You may need less water if you drink other beverages often.

Although bottled water companies would like for you to believe that their water is the way to go, most bottled water has undesirable, even harmful properties to it. Though it may not contain the fluoride and harmful metals and other contaminants of your faucet, there is a better, healthier way to hydrate.

Boil your water, letting it cool by placing it in the refrigerator. Sometimes it is even better to boil it, drinking it warm to avoid cold, stomach related problems, breathing related problems and hiccups.

How much water do you drink? Do you find it hard to drink the recomended amount of water? Like always, my Health-be readers and I would like to know, so please leave your opinion in the form of a comment bellow. We appreciate it!

Written By: Tom Retterbush

Sources

7 Wonders of Water from webmd.com

The Wonders of Water from tightbodwithapod.com

Benefits of Water, by Martha Roberts, from SW Health Magazine