What happens to the food and water
as they enter our digestive system? They are both necessary components
of the digestive process. Our bodies need the water to effectively
digest food 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. Do you know that your body is 98% water? Do you find this
fact hard to believe? 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
Let’s take a look at the relationship
of healthy eating and our body’s daily intake of water. There
is a direct correlation between eating healthy and consuming enough
water to absorb the vitamins and minerals we need from the healthy
food we’ve eaten.
During the course of consuming our
food, we drink water with our meals. We don’t even stop to
think about the role this water plays in our digestive process.
We drink it because we become thirsty when we eat. Stomach acids
need the water in order to properly breakdown the food as it travels
through our stomach, and nutrients are absorbed by the blood. The
food continues down the path of the intestines, still being broken
down and absorbed through the lining of the intestines, still requiring
the presence of water. All of the digestive process must have water
in order to happen as designed.
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 kidney’s function as designed.
Many of the body’s organs
depend upon fresh blood supplies in order to function properly.
The kidneys and intestines require vast amounts of water in order
to accomplish the difficult task of flushing the waste from our
body. Now, if you don’t realize the importance of this task,
you need to stop and think about waste. Wastes are produced from
the daily processes your body goes through, toxic by-products that
we don’t need to live, and don’t need to retain in our
bodies. As a general rule, whatever we might need for our body should
be absorbed as the food has passed through the intestines, whatever
is left, is not needed.
At times, there are imbalances in
our intestines that create an environment that won’t allow
for proper processing of food particles, or doesn’t allow
us to absorb any of the nutrients we need at all as they pass through
our intestines. Stepping up our consumption of water can often correct
this without the need for medication. We simply need to flush our
system, as you might flush a slow drain.
Many of the processes our body performs each day, each hour, depend
upon our digestive system to supply the needed nutrients and fluids.
Proper digestion, from beginning to end, cannot take place without
water, lots and lots of water.
What Does Water Provide in our Daily Digestion?:
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