Why Drink More Water Than Any Other Beverage?
Why drink more water than coffee, soda or even juice? Anything other than water has caffeine, sugar and other additives that the body needs to filter, break down or store. And after all of that, the body may not end being hydrated the way that it needs to be.
Water will hydrate your body without any additional chemicals or additives. There is caffeine in many drinks and quite often these drinks do not have any nutritional value other than (maybe) sugar. And depending on the beverage, it may actually work against keeping you dehydrated – for instance, alcohol dehydrates you.
When your body is dehydrated, it does not perform as well as it should. You can end up feeling tired and hungry when you are only looking for hydration. When the brain is dehydrated, it does not work properly. Headaches and muscle pain occurs when you have not consumed enough water.
We all see what happens to a plant to that lacks water; the same effect can occur to the human body. The body can live up to 3 weeks without any food but only 3 days without water. This fact should impress upon you how important water is to the human body.
Juices are good for you and definitely better than coffee or soda, but juices contain sugars that can add to your calorie intake. It’s also a lot easier to over-indulge on juices – just think how long it takes to work your way through a whole orange versus the time it doesn’t take to slurp a glass of juice. Juices contain vitamins but they do not hydrate your body as well as water can.
This does not mean that you should never drink other beverages. However you do need to make sure that you are getting enough water into your body. 2 to 3 liters is an average of the amount water that you should consume on a daily basis. You will never have to worry about drinking too water. People that are ill from the common cold or are suffering from high blood pressure or any other illness are instructed to drink as much water as they can.
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