HOW IMPORTANT IS WATER?
The most important life giving substance in the body, and the one that the body desperately depends on, is water.
- WATER accounts for over half of our body mass.
- Every single biological function depends upon the efficient flow of water.
- Water is necessary for the distribution of nutrients throughout the body and the removal of waste products from the cells.
- It is involved in your body’s acid-base balance and it is the medium through which hormones and other chemical messenger travel.
- Water is an important component of skin, cartilage and other tissues and helps maintain body temperature.
- It also acts as a shuttle for the electrolytic minerals such as sodium and potassium that is very important in normalization of blood pressure.
- We are constantly in the process of losing water through our skin, lungs, urine, stool etc. Your body has been engineered for survival. It will maintain fluid and blood flow to the areas most crucial for life: brain, heart and other vital organs to meet their basic needs. Blood flow may be diverted by constricting your smaller pipes, therefore raising blood pressure and maybe shutting down some of the extensions of the smaller pipes (capillaries). The longer the body is dehydrated, the longer the absence of blood and adequate nutrients to these tissues and the more bogged down with cellular wastes and so on. It is required in abundance for the arterial and kidney health.
- HOW MUCH WATER? HALF YOUR WEIGHT IN OUNCES PER DAY: EIGHT TO TEN 8 OUNCE GLASSES OF PURE (NO CHLORINE, NO FLUORIDE) WATER PER DAY. A word of caution – build this up slowly. Add one cup of water a day to what you are presently drinking until you reach your goal. If you have kidney disease or congestive heart failure, consult your doctor before increasing your water intake dramatically. Drinking it through a straw will prevent that full and bloated feeling. When water volume is suboptimal, the kidneys reabsorb more sodium which is followed by a rise in fluid levels in the body. Water is a powerful diuretic… Cut back on dehydrating beverages such as coffee and alcohol.
Disclaimer: This information is for educational purposes and is not meant to diagnose or treat illness. The author, publishers cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage suffered by individuals as a result of following advice in this article.
CJM LeBlanc HealthWorks, Centreville Mall, 121-342 Main Street, Shediac, N.B. E4P 2E7, tel: (506)533-8885, fax: 532-8644, e-mail: charlotteleb@rogers.com, web site: www.wellness-healthworks.com
Written by: Charlotte LeBlanc at 12:43 PM
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