How Water Is Helpful For Your Health And Skin
Water can decrease your appetite
Water can decrease your appetite. It is hard to distinguish between being thirsty and being hungry, so try drinking water and waiting 20 to 30 minutes to see if you're still hungry.
Drinking water also may help you cut calories.
Most people drink sodas, coffee, and other such beverages and totally disregard drinking plain water. Replacing the higher calorie beverages with plain water or flavored water (without added sugar) can significantly reduce calories."
Furthermore, most of these drinks contain caffeine. "The caffeine acts as a diuretic to set you up for dehydration. By the time you feel thirsty, you already are dehydrated."
People of all ages need to drink plain water.
Water is an important nutrient and is vital for a variety of bodily functions and processes including removal of waste products, carrying nutrients, and regulating body temperature. Water helps reduce fluid retention, and helps keep bowel functions normal."
How much water is enough?
One way to calculate how much you need is to take your weight in pounds and divide by two. The result is the number of ounces of water you should drink a day. So a 100- pound woman needs to drink 50 ounces of water each day -- just a little more than four 12-ounce glasses, or three bottles of water (which usually are 500 milliliters or 16.9 ounces.) A 175-pound man would need five bottles of water.
"I think many people would greatly benefit by recording the amount of water they drink in a day. Many folks I have asked to do this are surprised at how little they drink. It is an essential nutrient yet so few actually get enough!
Drinking plenty of water is as important in the winter as it is during the summer.
Most people realize fluid is used to produce sweat which keeps us cool during exercise and the hot temperatures of summer, but not as many are aware that the body also needs water to stay warm. The best way to illustrate this is to think of your car. The radiator needs fluid regardless of the weather."
Some people need to speak with their physician prior to increasing their water intake, "especially people with kidney problems that require fluid restriction."
Alternative medicine
In Western culture, alternative medicine is any healing practice "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine", or "that which has not been shown consistently to be effective." Alternative medicine is often based on the belief that a particular health regimen has efficacious effects even while there exists various bodies of evidence to contradict such a belief under the rigorous standards of evidence based medicine. In practice, alternative medicine encompasses therapies with a historical or cultural, rather than a scientific, basis. Commonly cited examples include naturopathy, chiropractic, herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine, Unani, Ayurveda, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, hypnosis, homeopathy, acupuncture, and diet-based therapies, in addition to a range of other practices. It is frequently grouped with complementary medicine, which generally refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.
by: Andres Molleda
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