6 Reasons Why You Should Drink More Water

So, here’s why it’s time to drink up!

Hydration is the most essential process for your body. Your body is made up of roughly 60% of water and this elixir of life—water is essential to keep your body functioning. Whenever you feel thirsty, it means that your body has been dehydrated and it needs rehydration. This ideally should not be the case. Even without your body asking for water (in the form of thirst), you must keep refilling the supply for your body to keep functioning.

Sometimes, busy schedules and work profiles keep us focused towards the job and we forget the fact that our body depends on us for its water content. Whenever you find those 2 minutes’ gap, spend it towards rehydrating your body fluid. Here’s why water is so very essential to your body:

• Maintaining body fluids: As mentioned earlier, your body is made of 60% of water, which is used as body fluids in the form of saliva, sweat, hormones etc. to perform the most essential operations of a human body; like, digestion, absorption, circulation, transportation of nutrients, and maintenance of body temperature.
• When you go low on these body fluids, your brain communicates with your kidneys for the need of water and thus, thirst is triggered.
• Controlling calories: The weight loss theory for dieters is drinking down gallons of water. While water by itself doesn’t cut down on calories, it does substitute/replace the intake of food in excess. Thus, when you feel the urge to munch down a lot of snacks or unhealthy food, accompany it with litres of water, so that you will start feeling full and will not eat more of the food. Thus, water is a calorie trimmer.

• Beautifying factor: Skin being the largest organ of the body, it needs regular intake of water to maintain its texture and color. The more the intake of water, the more the pushing out of waste from your body in the form of sweat. Feed your skin with water and see yourself glowing with flawless skin!
• Boosting the immune system: A water guzzler is a disease fighter too! Drinking down plenty of water keeps diseases like flu, cancer and other ailments at bay. Your immune system needs a lot of water to produce antibodies to fight against diseases. Thus, this magical liquid keeps you off diseases too.
• Sending those toxins OUT: Water is also that liquid which pushes away the toxins from your body in the form of physical waste. It is the most needed liquid for both your skin and kidney to do its function and also send out the excess/waste products out of your body.
• Performing better: Proper hydration contributes to increased performance of the body. It increases the metabolic rate, makes digestion process as smooth as possible and regulates and maintains the sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol levels perfectly. It also prevents your body from weakness, fatigue, dizziness, and electrolyte imbalance.

Last, but not the least, “Water is FREE”! Even if you choose bottled water, it’s STILL cheaper than those high sugar and fat-filled latte!.