1. It regulates the fluids flowing through your body. A full 60% of our bodies are water! Think of how many bodily fluids you're emiting in different ways throughout the day. Then add the ones inside your cells and organs that you can't see. That's a lot of fluids!
2. Helps you count your calories. First, water has no calories so choosing a glass of water over soda, juice, or anything else really, saves you empty (non-nutritional) calories. Also, by drinking a lot of water, especially before and during a meal may help you feel fuller and not able to eat as much at the dinner table.
3. When you're working out hard, water is key in re-energizing your muscles.
4. It refreshes you from the inside-out! Not only will your insides be running "fluidly" but your skin will have a healthy glow!
5. We put a lot of junk in our bodies--sugar, alcohol, preservatives--and it's the kidneys' job to filter it out from the good stuff. But without water, the kidney can't do it's job!
6. Again with all that junk--it's gotta go somewhere. Water helps you stay regular too!
While all those reasons are good enough to make you pick up another glass of water, there's another benefit that will make you drink water by the jug! It may help speed your metabolism! Studies have found that drinking the equivalent of drinking 2 glasses of water at a time may raise your calorie and carbohydrate burning ability by up to 30%. Of course, no study is perfect and there is a lot of debate about it...I still think it's worth a try!
Personally, I just carry a large water bottle around with me everywhere I go, drinking constantly, and re-fill it as soon as it gets low.
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