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Drink water: 7 reasons why water should be your drink of choice
We are all taught from an early age that water is good for us, but with coffee, tea, soda, juice, energy drinks and a myriad of other drinks so readily available, it’s hard to make the decision to choose water.
Here are seven good reasons why you should drink more water.
Keeps skin looking great.
If your skin looks unhealthy and tired, then so do you. Staying properly hydrated removes all the toxins that build up in you skin, and helps to prevent your skin from drying out. If you have the opposite problem - in other words puffy bloated skin - then it’s likely that a lack of water is again your problem. When skin doesn’t get water, it retains what it already had, which leaves your skin cells full, puffy, and not exactly what you could call attractive. If you want to look beautiful, you should keep yourself hydrated.
It’s cheaper.
Of course, if you buy bottled water, it’s just about as expensive as soda, juice, and coffee are. However, studies have shown that tap water is usually equally as clean and safe as bottled water, and being free costs a whole lot less. If you have a problem with the taste of your tap water and don’t like it, buy a filter pitcher or one that attaches to the faucet. It still costs a lot less.
Are you drinking enough water?
Water makes up 98% percent of our body, and without this life-giving fluid, you and I would not survive.
The human body can survive for up to 3 weeks on water alone - but try surviving without water and you might last 4 to 5 days. It’s a truly amazing and health sustaining fluid, and it’s just water.
What do we get from water, that our body must have, and can’t live without?
It’s the benefit of the fluidity of water, and what it does for our bodies, that is the most important part.
All of our bodily functions rely on the cells in our bloodstream to supply them the nutrients and minerals that they need to carry out those vital functions.
How do our cells achieve that end?
They absorb the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients we take in during our digestive process. But they also absorb water, or liquid fluids that are a product in direct water intake or the digestive process, but either way, water must be a part of the formula.