Do you know that your body is 98%
water? Do you find this fact hard to believe? I did, and then I
stopped to really think about it. Most all of our body fluids are
water, and many of our organs are mostly water. Do you suppose water
is important to our daily functions? I would hazard a guess of YES.
The daily recommended allowance
of water is eight 8 oz. glasses. That seems like a lot, until you
stop to think about all of the liquid we consume, instead of the
water we need to be drinking. We normally consume 64 ounces plus.
It just isn’t all water like we need.
Our bodies need the water to effectively digest and perform all
the necessary functions we ask of it each day. You don’t stop
to realize what we ask of this marvelous machine, we just take it
for granted that it’s going to function properly. Let’s
talk about some of the things we ask our body to do, that requires
water in order to successfully perform.
Physical activity is high on everyone’s
list. We run, walk, play, swim, and participate in all kinds of
physically demanding activity. None of this is possible without
the proper functioning of our body. In order to carry on all the
processes of performance and replenishment, we need more than the
usual 64 ounce requirement. We’ve expended more than our usual
amount when our body had to sweat in order to keep us cooled off.
Proper flushing of the body, filtering
of the blood, and transmission of waste from our bodies can only
occur when there are enough fluids present. The only way for enough
fluids to be present is in our consumption of water. Only through
the intake of necessary amounts of water do our kidneys function
as designed.
Without water, we don’t furnish
enough of the fluid needed by our brain for proper functioning.
Now, I bet there’s one you didn’t realize. If you’re
not consuming enough water, your brain experiences a kind of dehydration.
Headaches are a result of this condition. Teenagers who experience
headaches are usually depriving their body of the water or fluids
it needs to function correctly.
Many of the body’s organs
depend upon fresh blood supplies in order to function properly.
Blood depends on the proper filtration and fluid replenishment from
cell activity. This cell activity doesn’t occur without needed
input from our daily intake of water. Study the body during bouts
of dehydration. It is easily seen how many of our bodily functions
reduce their work load, or don’t perform at maximum capacity,
simply because there isn’t enough water. Water is the foundation
of physical existence.
Just in examining these few points
here, you should be able to see the importance of water to our daily
life. What we don’t realize is that very few adults, or children,
come anywhere close to drinking the recommended daily allowance.
We often skip meals, skip our nutritional requirements, and then
don’t even bother to give the body enough water to try and
compensate. Shouldn’t we wonder why we are able to function
at all, instead of why we aren’t functioning at top speed?
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