Water is your best friend ….. drinking water can help weight loss
Are you drinking enough water? If you’re not, you could end up with excess body fat, poor muscle tone, digestive complications, muscle soreness — even water-retention problems.
Next to air, water is the element most necessary for survival. A normal adult is 60 to 70 percent water. We can go without food for almost two months, but without water only a few days. Yet most people have no idea how much water they should drink. In fact, many live in a dehydrated state.
Without water, we’d be poisoned to death by our own waste products. When the kidneys remove uric acid and urea, these must be dissolved in water. If there isn’t enough water, wastes are not removed as effectively and may build up as kidney stones. Water also is vital for chemical reactions in digestion and metabolism. It carries nutrients and oxygen to the cells through the blood and helps to cool the body through perspiration. Water also lubricates our joints.
We even need water to breathe: our lungs must be moist to take in oxygen and excrete carbon dioxide. It is possible to lose a pint of liquid each day just exhaling. So if you don’t drink sufficient water, you can impair every aspect of your physiology. By not drinking enough water, many people incur excess body fat, poor muscle tone and size, decreased digestive efficiency and organ function, increased toxicity in the body, joint and muscle soreness and water retention.
What causes water retention? If you’re not drinking enough, your body may retain water to compensate. Strangely enough fluid retention can sometimes be eliminated by drinking more water, not less. Proper water intake is a key to weight loss. If people who are trying to lose weight don’t drink enough water, the body can’t metabolize the fat adequately. Retaining fluid also keeps weight up.
A healthy person needs eight to ten eight-ounce glasses of water a day. More if you exercise a lot or live in a hot climate. And overweight people should drink in an extra glass for every 25 pounds they exceed their ideal weight. Consult your own doctor for their recommendations.
Your water intake should be spread throughout the day and evening. By consuming eight to ten glasses of water throughout the day, you could be on your way to a healthier, leaner body.
Benefits of drinking water
• regulates appetite
• increases metabolism
• boosts energy levels
• promotes less water retention
• alleviates headaches
• helps reduce blood pressure
• helps reduce chloresterol
• eases joint pain
• decreases risk in some cancers
• lessens chance of developing kidney stones
• improves skin
• releases toxic wastes
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