Water and Health

Having a dry mouth is not the only indication that a person is in need of water. Often it only indicates that a person is in chronic need of hydration and needs to drink water right away. Water is used to lubricate the body and joints to make movement smooth. Water regulates the temperature of the body and helps cool it down.

Caffeinated and alcoholic beverages actually cause dehydration and tend to remove more water from the body than the amount of water that they add. So caffeinated and alcoholic drinks do not count in the eight cups a water a person should drink a day, but on the other hand, after drinking these beverages people may have to drink more water than eight cups to make up for their dehydrating affect.

Often various problems in the body are caused by water deficiencies in various parts of the body. Lack of water can lead to allergies, asthma, hypertension, headaches and will make other ailments in the body worst. Often health problems can be solved by just drinking two quarts of water a day.
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Lack of the proper amount of water tends to weaken the immune system. Not drinking enough water can cause important amino acids to be destroyed, as toxic waste builds up in the body.

Not having enough water in the body causes low-oxygen and increases acidity in the body, which tend to cause cancers and increase breeding grounds for disease.

Water delivers oxygen to the cells
Water carries nutrients
Water keeps the cells hydrated
Water moistens oxygen making breathing easier
Water is fluid to makes joints move better and to absorb joints shock
Water maintains proper body temperature
Water removes waste products and toxins
Water keeps the tissues from sticking
Water lubricates the joints
Water helps with electronic cells communication
Water helps the immune system work properly

Percentage of Body Made Up of Water

The average amount of water in an adult's body is from of 40 to 50 quarts of water (10 to 13 gallons) The blood is made up of 83% water, the eyes 95% water, brain 75%, muscles 75%, kidneys 83%, lungs 86%, heart 75, brain 75%, muscles 75% lungs 86% and bones 22%.

What Insufficient Water Will Do to the Body

If the body is just 2% deficient of water, the body will feel fatigued. If the body is 10% deficient of water, the body will experience great difficulties. If it becomes more than this it can cause death. Cholera, which is a very serious disease, can cause death quickly because it causes extreme diarrhea and the body loses so much water it can cause death within 24 hours.

Why Water Is Important to the Cells

The cells of the body contain a fluid that is mainly water that contains nutrients. The cells of the body float in a saline water solution. If the body does not contain enough water it can weaken the function of the cells of the body and they cannot properly receive needed nutrients and cannot properly take toxic waste from the cells.

Extracellular fluids (ones that are outside the cells) carry the electric charges that enable intercellular communication and it also is used to deliver materials to the cells and to remove metabolic waste from cells. It also carries oxygen to the cells.

It Can Be Difficult to Know When the Body is Dehydrated

The problem is that you can not always be aware of dehydration in the body.

In India, where it is can be extremely hot, I have seen that many times when people were extremely ill and looked like they would drop over that often by just drinking some water with some salt (electrolytes mix), a person could recover in just a half-hours or so.

Often people who came to India that tended to not drink proper amounts of water were often in shock after they had just felt like they were about to die, that just a simple solution to their illness was to drink water.

How Important Water is to Health

I wrote a book on India travel and gave some hints on how to stay healthy in India and I stated that the main foundation for proper health was to drink plenty of clean, purified water. My main suggestion was to always carry a bottle of water all the time when going outside and drink from it regularly. Considering that India can be sometimes over 110 degrees, it is really easy to drink plenty of water.

An important habit is to always have purified water with you.

Most people are not in the habit of drinking enough water.

In all the books and articles that I read about how to avoid and deal with tropical diseases it was always suggested to drink plenty of water.

Water is absolutely essential to maintain and heal the body. When people are sick in the hospital no matter how sick a person is a glass of water is almost always placed next to the bed. If a person is so sick that they cannot drink then they are usually put on the drip with water attached to their arm.

What American Drink Daily

Water 4.6
Coffee 1.8
Milk 1.3
Juices 1.4
Soda with caffeine 1.3
Tea - 1.0
Soda without caffeine 0.6
Beer 0.5
Alcoholic beverages 0.3

Recommended Amount of Water to Drink Daily

The proper amount of water suggested to be drunk by Ayurvedic and other natural medical practitioners is at least 2 quarts a day. The average amount of water drunk by Americans is about 4.6 eights-once glasses a day.

It is suggested to drink a half-ounce of water daily for each pound a person weights. This is about a glass each waking hour.

Diuretic beverages such as caffeinated coffee, tea and sodas and alcoholic beverages remove water from the body rather than adding it. Or at least diuretic drinks should not be counted in the daily quota of water drunk each day.
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More water should be drunk when a person is sick, as a person with an illness requires more water than normal, as illnesses take water out of the body.

During hotter weather, especially when working outside in the heat, people should drink more water.

. It is best to drink more water when you work harder, either physically or mentally.

Amount of Water Americans Drink Each Day

44% of people said they drunk less than 3 cups of water a day.

About 10% of people did not drink any water each day.

About 35% of the people did not really know how much water they drunk or know how much water is recommended.

Best Times to Drink Water

It is a good idea after waking up in the morning to drink 16 oz or at least an 8 oz glass of water to give the body needed water and also to clear out the stomach and digestive system.

Water should be drunk all day at regular intervals even when not thirty.

It is a good ideal to always have clean drinking water with you and carry it in your car. I leave a galloon of water in my car and keep drinking water right next to my desk all the time so I don't have to get up to get it.

Drink a glass of water about a half-hour before each meal

What Water to Drink

Drink pure water and avoid chlorinated water or water from unknown sources, which is a good reason to carry your own water.

When I go to other peoples' homes, often they will offer me water and I always ask what the source of the water is if I don't know already or I say, yes if the water is purified or filtered tap water and not unfiltered water from the tap. I cannot drink chlorinated water anyway unless I am extremely desperate, as I hate the taste of it. This is the main reason why I mainly only drink distilled water because I like its taste.

Perspiration Helps to Eliminate Waste from the Body

Perspiring helps to clean the lymphatic system. It is good to sweat during exercise but also it is important to drink more water when exercising, especially in hot weather. It is a good idea to drink a glass or two of water before exercising and drink small amount of water as you are exercising regularly.

Beverages That Hydrate the Body

Water, bottled water, fruit and vegetable juices, caffeine free carbonated drinks and milk are beverages that hydrate the body. Alcoholic beverages such as beer or wine and coffee, teas and sodas that contain caffeine dehydrate the body and are diuretics or cause the body to discharge fluids. A high percentage of people do not know this. Often people who drink dehydrating beverage think they are drinking plenty of water in a day, when in actually they are adding basically no water to their systems.

Sodas containing caffeine are a major source of misconception. The average American drinks 54.5 gallons of soda each year. In 1997 Americans spent over $50 billion on soda. Drinking sodas is the highest source of refined sugar eaten by Americans. About 25% of the sodas are artificially sweetened, which is even worst than drinking sodas with refined sugar in it, as diet sodas contain chemical artificial sweeteners. Caffeine can cause insomnia, fatigue and irregular heartbeat and can make children hyperactive.

Water Dehydration of the Body

Dehydration is when the body takes in less water than it needs. More water is leaving the body than is entering it. Dehydration is not just when a person is suffering from heat exhaustion and cannot function properly, as these are extreme symptoms of dehydration. It is not just when the mouth feels dry.

Dehydration is when the cells in the body are not receiving enough water to properly do their job. It can lead to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, and depression, loss of appetite and muscle cramps.

Water is lost from the body by urination, passing feces, perspiration and through the nose from the lungs (moist gases). Drinking alcoholic beverages, caffeine drinks and some drug can increase the lose of water from the body

Water in the World

Water is constantly recycled in the ecosystem on the earth. When water evaporates in a pure form it condenses and forms water from which clouds form. It is a natural distillation.

Peaceful Nature of Moving Water

Just hearing the sound of moving water is peaceful. One time I was up in the Himalaya Mountain near the beginning of the Yamuna River and another time next to the sacred Ganges River and these rivers were rushing by making a sound so loud that you could hear these rivers a long time before seeing them. I wanted to stay as close to the Ganges River at night as possible as the rushing sound of these rivers made me feel very tranquil. Both times when I sleep next to these river I had a great night sleep.

Drink 8 Glasses of Pure Water Daily

Most people do not drink enough water, which means most people are dehydrated. Dehydration means that the cells are not supplied the proper amount of fluids that they need, which affects their abilities to remove toxins. My sister who is a natural massage therapist in Las Vegas told me that she always advises her patients to drink eight glasses of water daily or at least more water. She told me that it is especially important to drink plenty of water right after a therapeutic massage as many toxins are released from the cells of the body and they need the proper amount of water to properly remove these toxins. Cells need the proper amount of water to excrete matter and toxins form them.

Except in rare circumstance it is not a good idea to drink water directly from the tap without filtering it. In general the only thing you should use unfiltered tap water for is to clean the floor.

Often the tap water that is stated to be drinking water contains toxic chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride, which are actually put in the water to purify it. Both these chemicals are highly toxic. Drinking chlorinated water can damage the arteries and therefore can cause cholesterol to attach to the arties and eventually cause heart problems.

This is why it is both important to cleanse out the toxics in your body by a variety of methods and also to not put more toxins in your body.

A major question is what is the best water to drink. Any tap water that contains chlorine or fluoride is extremely bad and should never been drank. It is not even a good idea to wash your body with this water or to use it for cooking, as it will be absorbed into the foods you eat or the skin of the body.

Fluoride in Water

Fluoride is an extremely toxic chemical that is produced as a byproduct of making super-phosphic fertilizers. Since it so toxic it is very difficult to find any place to dump it. Somehow or other by lobbying government officials, it was decided that it would be sold to municipalities to put it in the water supplies. Supposedly because fluoride is good for the teeth. It is even added to toothpastes supposedly because it is good for people's teeth. It is a really good idea to never use toothpastes that contains fluoride.

In actuality fluoride has no proven benefits at all and it is extremely toxic to the body. It adversely affects many organs in the body and the thyroid glands which causes metabolism to slow down in the body, which helps cause people to gain weight.

Bottled Water

Spring water is usually better than tap water. Some people try to say that tap water has no bacteria while bottled water often does contain bacteria, but the reason that there are no bacteria in tap water is often because the deadly poison chlorine is in it. If the chlorine kills organism in the water, since humans are also organism it is obvious it will adversely affect humans too.

I personally think distilled water is the best because of the taste. A reverse osmosis water purification unit is good for use in a house.

Chlorinated water is also used in cleaning fruits and vegetables and it is also in the irrigation of fruits and vegetables, so residues of chlorine are often found on fruits and vegetables.

As the skin is the largest organ in the body it can often absorb toxins, so when using chlorinated water for taking a bath or shower, chlorine can be absorbed into the body through the skin. Also chlorine can be inhaled in the steam, which contains dangerous gases, when taking a hot shower. A good solution is to use a shower filter, which is made to filter out chlorine.

The strange thing is that often when more chloride and fluorine are put in tap water, many people often consider this water to be healthier water, while in truth it is usually the opposite.

Organic coffee and teas are alright to drink as long as purified water is used and not water that contains chlorine.

The problem with carbonated drinks is that the carbonation tends to block the absorption of calcium, which is an important nutritional need.

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