Are you drinking enough water?
Whoever drinks of the water I will give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life. (John 4:14)
40 Days of Health Tips
1. Maintain a healthy pH and electrolyte balance by staying hydrated! Water helps keep your body temperature normal. It also lubricates and cushions joints, protects your spinal cord and other sensitive tissues, and protects your organs. Wow! Good reason for drinking the adequate amount of water daily!
2. Water aids in getting rid of waste in your body. Water helps you cleanse and detoxify, flushing out toxins from the body. A clean system is a healthy system!
3. Water helps you lose weight. Water is one of the best tools for weight loss, it’s an appetite suppressant, and often when we think we’re hungry, we’re actually just thirsty. Being chronically dehydrated puts our system out of balance, causing us to binge and crave unhealthy foods. Water is the foundation to good health!
4. Water helps prevent clogging of arteries in the heart and the brain. Yet 90-95% of people are not drinking enough water and reaping the benefits. Stay on the prevention plan by staying hydrated. Water equals health, healing and life!
5. Water supports the body’s electromagnetic energy-system. Being dehydrated saps your energy and makes you tired, even mild dehydration effects your energy level. Dehydration can lead to fatigue, muscle weakness, dizziness and other symptoms. So easy to energize your body with water!
6. Water helps cure headaches–often when we have headaches it’s simply a matter of not drinking enough water. There are lots of other causes of headaches of course, but dehydration is a common one.
7. Water helps you have healthy skin–drinking water can clear up your skin. Drinking the adequate amount of water helps keep the skin clear, glowing and moist. It also delays the aging process. When you are dehydrated the skin suffers. Water keeps you looking good!
8. Water helps you avoid digestive problems—our digestive systems need a good amount of water to digest food properly. Often water can help cure stomach acid problems, and water, along with fiber, can cure constipation (often a result of dehydration). If you don’t have a love relationship yet with water begin one today!
9. Caffeine is a diuretic so you need to drink more water for the extra fluid you lose. F. Batmanghelidj. MD shares testimony how after a man stopped all caffeine for a week, drank ten glasses of water, and added ½ teaspoon of unrefined sea salt, he was cured. Not only was his blood pressure much lower but he was freed from headaches, lower back pain, his sinuses were cleared and no constipation!
10. Drinking the adequate amount of water daily has been found to reduce the risk of colon cancer by 45%, reduce the risk of bladder cancer by 50%, and reduce the risk of breast cancer by 75%. Drink to live!
11. Drinking water maintains the viscosity of the blood, which helps prevent blood thickening and reduces risk of cardiovascular heart attacks and strokes. Along with blood, muscles, lung, and brain are mostly water. So many amazing benefits for staying hydrated!
12 Staying hydrated reduces the chances of bladder and urinary track infections and helps prevent kidney stones. Water is such a blessing to your body!
13. Drinking a couple of glasses of water right when you wake up is the perfect way to start your day off right! F. Batmanghelidj. MD says that the gradual rise in blood pressure is an indicator of a gradually establishing shortage of water in the body. We can avoid many sicknesses just by staying hydrated!
14. Water helps prevent the loss of memory as we age. It helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
15. Water is a brain booster- drink plenty of water before an important meeting, an exam or any time when you need to enhance your mental abilities and concentration. Even a 2% drop in hydration can affect you physically and intellectually and slow down mental recall. There is evidence that lack of water can have more serious, long-term consequences such as neurological implications and depression.
16. Drinking an adequate amount of water daily is important for your overall good health because water aids in digestion, circulation, absorption, assimilation and even excretion. Every single system in your body is dependant on water. Prevent dehydration, prevent disease!
17. When you are sick you definitely need to drink many fluids. If you have a fever, vomiting and diarrhea, all of these cause your body to lose water. When women breast feed they will lose more water during that process and need to keep the water coming.
18. Water should be our first reaction to headaches, hunger between meals, digestion issues, bloating, vocal fatigue, muscle ache, and dry skin. Most of us are blessed to have the luxury of water on demand. As you drink, be aware of the gift you are giving yourself and all the amazing bodily-functions that the water is supporting.
19. Staying hydrated helps solve the constipation and Indigestion problems. Water generates electrical and magnetic energy inside each and every cell of the body—it provides the power to live.
20. Comparative shortage of water first suppresses and eventually kills some aspects of the body. Signs of mild dehydration: thirst, loss of appetite, dry skin, darkened urine, dry mouth, fatigue, chills, and head rushes.
21 Water helps reverse addictive urges. We can keep ourselves out of so much health trouble by simply staying hydrated. Signs of moderate dehydration: increased heart rise, respiration, and body temperature, decreased sweating and urination, extreme fatigue, muscle cramps, headaches, nausea, and tingling of the limbs.
22. Signs of serious dehydration: muscle spasms, vomiting, racing pulse, shriveled skin, dim vision, painful urination, confusion, difficulty breathing, seizures, chest and abdominal pain, unconsciousness. Dehydration is by far the most frequent constant stressor in the human body that raises blood pressure—in at least sixty million Americans, says F. Batmanghelidj. MD in His book, “You’re not sick, You’re Thirsty!”
23. Water your body. Think of a plant without water and how it wilts and dies. Just giving it water can spring it to life. Water is just as essential for our bodies because it is in every cell, tissue, and organ in your body. Water prevents DNA damage. Drinking water speeds up your metabolism.
24. Water increases the efficiency of red blood cells in the collecting oxygen in the lungs. Water is a natural appetite suppressant and helps you to effortlessly lose weight! Dehydration is many times the cause of back pain. The bones of your vertebrae are supported by discs. And each disc is made of water so lacking water leads to back pain.
25. Water helps you in your exercising—being dehydrated can severely hamper your athletic activities, slowing you down and making it harder to lift weights. Dehydration causes cramping. Water being a natural lubricant to your muscles and joints makes you more flexible, less likely to experience sprained ankles, and less likely to be sore after working out.
26. Being dehydrated by just 2% impairs performance in tasks that require attention, psychomotor, and immediate memory skills, as well as assessment of the subjective state.” four ways dehydration affects your brain: Dehydration affects your mood. Dehydration reduces your cognitive and motor skills. Dehydration makes you more sensitive to pain. Dehydration affects your memory. The mind is a terrible thing to waste, drink up!
27. Dehydration will harm your skin. Drinking water is great for your skin. It helps to moisturize it, keep it soft, and removes wrinkles.
28. Water to the body is absolutely vital for making the immune system more efficient in fighting infections and cancer cells.
29. People have been healed of asthma, allergies, diabetes, and degenerated lumbar spine from just simply drinking enough water daily!
30. You need water to provide the means for nutrients to travel to your organs and tissues. Water also helps transport oxygen to your cells.
31.Drinking water helps maintain blood pressure. A lack of water can cause blood to become thicker, increasing blood pressure. Water delivers oxygen throughout the body. Blood is more than 80 percent water, and blood carries oxygen to different parts of the body. Healthy blood healthy body, drink to live!
32. Water helps reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Your body will work better in every way when properly hydrated. Therefore you’re more likely to feel better about yourself!
33. Healthy people stay hydrated everyday. Keep your urine clear. That shows you are properly hydrated. When your urine is a dark yellow or has an odor you are definitely dehydrated. Note: riboflavin, a B vitamin, will make your urine bright yellow when you take dietary supplements that contain large amounts of riboflavin. Certain medications can change the color of urine as well.
34. Water restores normal sleep rhythms. Water gives luster and shine to the eyes. Water helps prevent glaucoma.
35. Your body needs more water when you are in hot climates, more physically active, running a fever or have diarrhea or vomiting.
36. Water normalizes the blood-manufacturing systems in the bone marrow—it helps prevent leukemia and lymphoma.
37. All the cell and organ functions that make up our entire anatomy and physiology depend on water for their functioning. Water dilutes the blood and prevents it from clotting during circulation.
38. Do not drink water during meals as it hampers the digestion by reducing the concentration of gastric juices that aids the process of digestion. Drink two glasses of water after waking up. This will help to activate the internal organs. Drink one glass of water 30 minutes before meals. This helps in digestion. Drink one glass of water before taking a bath. This helps to lower your blood pressure. Drink one glass of water before bedtime. This helps to avoid stroke or heart attack. Drink one glass of water before workouts. This helps to arm you against dehydration during an indoor or outdoor workout. Drink water after workouts. This helps to replace fluids lost by sweating and physical labor.
39. Back pain can be caused by dehydration when the body rations water away from the joints. Less lubrication equals greater friction and that can cause joint, knee and back pain, potentially leading to injuries and arthritis.
40. Water makes up more than two thirds of human body weight, and without water, we would die in a few days. The human brain is made up of 95% water, blood is 82% and lungs 90%. A mere 2% drop in our body’s water supply can trigger signs of dehydration: fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on smaller print, such as a computer screen. (Are you having trouble reading this? Drink up! Mild dehydration is also one of the most common causes of daytime fatigue. An estimated seventy-five percent of Americans have mild, chronic dehydration. What a scary statistic for a developed country where water is readily available.
Much of the information above is taken from the book “You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty” By Fereydoon Batmanghelidj MD.
