We all know that drinking lots of water offers health benefits. It is what most health professionals and healthy lifestyle advocates advices.
We read the benefits of drinking water on our social media platforms, on the blog, health magazines, and what our good friends always tell us.
Some said that drinking 2 glasses of water right when we up on bed signals our internal organs to start functioning right for the day ahead, drinking water before taking shower reduces the dreaded heart attack, and drinking water before sleeping offers a good night sleep.
In this article, we will be sharing to you 5 shocking reasons why we really need to drink more water.
1. Water Can Help Control Calories.
For years, dieters have been drinking lots of water as a weight loss strategy. While water doesn’t have any magical effect on weight loss, substituting it for higher calorie beverages can certainly help.
“What works with weight loss is if you choose water or a non-caloric beverage over a caloric beverage and/or eat a diet higher in water-rich foods that are healthier, more filling, and help you trim calorie intake,” says Penn State researcher Barbara Rolls, PhD, author of The Volumetrics Weight Control Plan.
Food with high water content tends to look larger, its higher volume requires more chewing, and it is absorbed more slowly by the body, which helps you feel full. Water-rich foods include fruits, vegetables, broth-based soups, oatmeal, and beans. Credit: WebMD
2. It’s been linked to heart health.
Can drinking water keep us heart healthy? There seems to be a link between risk of death from coronary heart disease and water intake: Research has shown both that consuming more water means a lower risk of death from coronary heart disease and that risk of death rises when intake of “high-energy fluids” (like soda and juice) increases. Source: Greatist
3. Decrease the risk of stone recurrence
In November 2014, the American College of Physicians issued new guidelines for people who have previously developed kidney stones, stating that increasing fluid intake to enable 2 liters of urination a day could decrease the risk of stone recurrence by at least half with no side effects. Source: MNT
4. Water is more important than food
Water is more important for your body’s survival than food. You can live without water for approximately one week, but you can survive without food for more than a month. Lack of water, or dehydration, reduces the amount of blood in your body, forcing your heart to pump harder in order to deliver oxygen-bearing cells to your muscles. In the early stages of dehydration, you can become dizzy, irritable and experience headaches. As dehydration progresses, you become clumsy and exhausted. Your eyesight fades. In the last stages of dehydration, you may feel nauseous and begin vomiting. Without water, you will enter a coma and die. Source: SFGate
5. It makes you exercise better
It’s common sense to replace the fluids you lose when you sweat with water, but what might not be obvious is that your body works better and harder during your workout if you drink water. Source: GoodtoKnow
Hope you find the information above valuable and please make it sure that you should drink water more often and not wait to feel thirsty.
A good friend of mine tells me that when you feel thirsty, it means that the body already lacks the desired amount of water – thus, aim to drink more in order not to feel thirsty at all.
Lastly, we can also tell that we lack the right amount of water when our urine is yellowish.
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