Adapt a healthy lifestyle with Water daily-Five reasons

This colourles,odourless and tasteles substance that we all take for granted is the source of life,health and wellbeing. It makes up abouut 60% of a young adult and 50% of elderly,s bodies. Do not for a second think it is because of their wrinking it is due to them having less muscles and more fat. Then your brain the knowledge centre consists of 70% water, lung 90% and blood 83%.

Water is 2 atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen-think of a mickeymouse face with 2 ears at the top and sides with a face in the centre well that is the layout of your single water molecule. This orientation causes the water molecules to stick together thus the fluidity of it making it perfect for the many functions that it does.

It also is the only liquid that can dissolve many,many substances allowing it to work as means of transportation.

Well if you haven,t got the picture of why you need water to be able to live, to read this article I will now tell you exactly.

1. It is of neutral ph and therefore maintains the perfect balance of body secretions. ph imbalance will affect electolytes which are necessory for the body to transmit information to all parts thus if wrong info is sent the wrong results will occur leading to chaos in your body.

2.There will be decrease digestion,absorbtion, utilisation of nutrients, minerals carbohydrates and others.

3.Low water intake slows excretion of body wastes -urine and feces thus leads to
- build up of toxins in the bladder which can lead to bladder cancer, kidney stone formation, kidneyfailure eventually.
- constipation, bloating and general abdominal discomfort.

4 Even can cause dull,dry skin.

5. With all of the above happening gradually there is general increase in physical tiredness.

So I hope I have convinced you to take ypur full required daily amount of water which is--half of your body weight(lbs) in onces eg 140lbs , requires 70 onces of water/day.this is so because you lose about 3L/day through sweating, breathing and excretory functions and also loss depeds on weather conditions as well. We gain back some from the foods we eat since these too consist of a large percentage of water.

It is important to know that you should not depend on Thirst to decide to drink water since this is what is called a feed back mechanism when the body is running low then thirst is turned on.

So do yourself a favor Stay healthy, drink more water daily, well unless you were instucted by a physician not to.

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