Water: The most important ‘nutrient’ for health, vitality, longevity and fat loss
Posted: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:49 am | Updated: 11:50 am, Tue Aug 28, 2012.
Water
is one of the most important nutrients and often overlooked for
detoxification, losing body fat, and optimal health. Your body is
approximately 70 percent water, your brain tissue approximately 75
percent water, and your blood is 83 percent water.
Many
people are chronically dehydrated and consume a majority of their
calories from sugary, caffeinated beverages. You can become dehydrated
from an intense workout, excessive sweating, too much alcohol
consumption, working outdoors in the heat, use of OTC drugs, when you’re
sick (disease, diarrhea, vomiting), starvation, or just not consuming
enough water.
Symptoms
of dehydration include fatigue, poor concentration, headaches, low back
pain, constipation, Charley horses and dry skin.
A few benefits of water are:
• Helps lower elevated cholesterol
• Weight maintenance aiding with fat loss
• Eliminates waste and flushes out toxins
• Central nervous system and brain function
• Regulates body temperature
• Transport nutrients
• Lowers cortisol
• Boosts metabolism
• Lubricates your spine, bones, joints and muscles
• Stimulates digestion
Before
meals, enjoy a cup or two of water with the fresh juice from a lemon or
lime. Doing so creates an alkaline environment and is helpful for
digestion. In a study, those who drank two cups of water before each
meal lost an average of 5 pounds more weight over a 12-week calorie
controlled diet than those who followed the same diet but did not drink
the water.
To
avoid BPA and other chemicals from water in plastic bottles, store your
water in a glass bottles. Better yet, consider installing a reverse
osmosis water filtration system in your home to filter your water from
impurities such as fluoride, contaminants, and chemicals.
Ten
popular U.S. bottled water brands contain mixtures of 38 different
pollutants, including bacteria, fertilizer, Tylenol and industrial
chemicals, some at levels no better than tap water, according to
laboratory tests recently conducted by Environmental Working Group
(EWG).
The
bottle water industry has also contributed to one of the biggest
environmental problems facing the world today. Only one-fifth of the
bottles produced by the industry are recycled. The remaining four-fifths
pile up at landfills, litter our neighborhoods and foul our oceans.
RainSoft Water Systems
Our drinking water systems provide bottled water quality straight from the faucet. Ultrefiner RO drinking water systems are our premier reverse osmosis
systems that utilize advanced technology for better tasting, cleaner
water. Hydrefiner drinking water systems are installed under your
kitchen sink and use a compressed carbon block filter to better treat
and filter bad tastes and odors from your drinking water.
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