subject: Water. Common misconceptions [print this page] Water. Common misconceptionsWater. Common misconceptions
First and foremost myth - a person should drink 10-12 glasses per day of liquid, which is about two liters. In fact, two liters - a kind of average figure, no relation to reality is not available. If you want to live long and feel good at the same time, give your body about 40 ml of water (not coffee, tea or juice, which are diuretics and dehydrate us even more) per kilogram of body weight.
As you can see, two liters of short slender woman or lean teenager, whose weight does not exceed fifty pounds. With a weight of eighty kilograms that way your rate increases to three liters, and one additional cup. Nearly half a liter, we obtain a fruit, raw vegetables, soups and dairy products. The rest should be ... drink, drink, and drink again. Otherwise, your body will have to work as a curse to be cleansed of accumulating toxins. Naturally, under such a load of organs and tissues will wear out much faster than they could.
Without food a person can live up to three weeks, without water will not live three days. Of course, our need for water depends on the season, the weather, the state of health, level of physical and mental stress. But even in the winter or when starting a cold do not deprive your body at least the minimum and so it needs two liters.
A second popular misconception is the firm belief that the cold water faster quenches thirst. Physiologists popularly explain that it is not. Cold water requires much more time to digest the body - for this it should warm up in the stomach to body temperature (36.6 degrees). Water at room temperature or even warm absorbed instantly and brings instant relief.
The third cornerstone - can you drink before meals, during meals and after meals. And when you drink, then that's it. The answer to this question is very simple. Firstly, the best start to the day - a glass of cold water, drunk on an empty stomach, slowly, with full consciousness brought by your body good. It stimulates peristalsis (adieu, constipation), reduces appetite and stimulates the breakdown of fats in the body.
For the same reason, those who want to lose weight, it is useful to drink a glass of cold some water before each meal. Man is so made that often takes a thirst for hunger. This simple technique helps to understand whether you're hungry. But at the same time deceive the stomach and lower the appetite. During the meal it is better not to drink, and in any case not to drink cold drinks. Gastric juice diluted with water is more difficult to cope with the problem - digestion. After the meal, the best drink - hot, such as green tea.
