THE ROLE OF WATER IN OUR BODIES
Water is so important for life that you would not live for more than a week to 10 days without consuming it in one form or another. Yet, people have lived for more than 30 days without solid food. Indeed, we start life beyond the womb with a clear hint of the need to take in higher amounts of water than of solid food. Yes, the components of breast milk tell us that about 98% of it is water, while the remaining 2% is made up of various nutrients.
Your body's two most important activities that end only with your death are as follows:
1. Keeping your entire system clean, so as to boost the effort of your immune defense system, i.e., your internal doctor, in its major task of keeping you healthy. This is where water has a major role, especially in our modern times with all types of pollution coming into us, as the most effective way of flushing toxins and related pollutants out of your body. That is why you can only live a few days, if you took in no water in some form, for example, in fruits or other sources of liquid.
2. Extracting the fuel and maintenance value from the foods you eat and storing whatever dangerous items to your health that it cannot flush out through your faeces, urine, perpiration or mucus discharges.
Drastic levels of pollution are now building up in our bodies and within our physical environments. As a result, it is necessary for each of us to be systematic in taking ample amounts of water on a daily basis or as regularly as our daily activities allow. Simultaneously, we should each seriously engage in damage limitation by reducing the number and amount of pollutants to which we expose ourselves.
Nutritionists consider water as a food. The basic reason why we take food, including water, is to get enough energy. The body can then handle much more of both physical and mental tasks, including stress. In contrast, a body that has less energy will only to be able to do less.
Looking at the volume of all the resources for humans to consume, water seems to be the most relatively abundant on earth. It is the only food item that is found above the earth in the form of rain, hail or snow. On the earth's surface we have water in rivers, streams, lakes and the seas. Sea water is poisonous but pure water that we are able to extract from it is not. From under the earth, we get water through wells, boreholes and springs.
In most parts of the earth, water is relatively abundant, cheap and affordable enough for everybody, including animals, plants and other creatures. Next in abundance of edible items that do not try to escape being used are the fruits, vegetables and other products of the plant kingdom, the base of the food chain on earth. Finally, we have the biological creatures that will take steps to avoid being eaten. Using this system of relative abundance and ease of access to the various edible items on earth, nature seems to be saying that, in descending order of importance for our health, we should take ample quantities of water, a good amount of items from the vegetable kingdom and much less of animal products. It has been noted that people have lived for 30 to 100 days without the items that are popularly seen as food. However, it is unlikely that a person can live more than a week or hardly up to about 10 days without water. In this regard, the following are among several critical functions of water in helping us to stay alive:
1. Break up waste material
2. Personal hygiene outside the body
2. Cleaning the body from within
4. Regulating body temperature
5. As a solvent for nutrients.
6. Chemical processing
7. Transport vehicle
8. Lubrication.
9. Generation of electricity.
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Your body's two most important activities that end only with your death are as follows:
1. Keeping your entire system clean, so as to boost the effort of your immune defense system, i.e., your internal doctor, in its major task of keeping you healthy. This is where water has a major role, especially in our modern times with all types of pollution coming into us, as the most effective way of flushing toxins and related pollutants out of your body. That is why you can only live a few days, if you took in no water in some form, for example, in fruits or other sources of liquid.
2. Extracting the fuel and maintenance value from the foods you eat and storing whatever dangerous items to your health that it cannot flush out through your faeces, urine, perpiration or mucus discharges.
Drastic levels of pollution are now building up in our bodies and within our physical environments. As a result, it is necessary for each of us to be systematic in taking ample amounts of water on a daily basis or as regularly as our daily activities allow. Simultaneously, we should each seriously engage in damage limitation by reducing the number and amount of pollutants to which we expose ourselves.
Nutritionists consider water as a food. The basic reason why we take food, including water, is to get enough energy. The body can then handle much more of both physical and mental tasks, including stress. In contrast, a body that has less energy will only to be able to do less.
Looking at the volume of all the resources for humans to consume, water seems to be the most relatively abundant on earth. It is the only food item that is found above the earth in the form of rain, hail or snow. On the earth's surface we have water in rivers, streams, lakes and the seas. Sea water is poisonous but pure water that we are able to extract from it is not. From under the earth, we get water through wells, boreholes and springs.
In most parts of the earth, water is relatively abundant, cheap and affordable enough for everybody, including animals, plants and other creatures. Next in abundance of edible items that do not try to escape being used are the fruits, vegetables and other products of the plant kingdom, the base of the food chain on earth. Finally, we have the biological creatures that will take steps to avoid being eaten. Using this system of relative abundance and ease of access to the various edible items on earth, nature seems to be saying that, in descending order of importance for our health, we should take ample quantities of water, a good amount of items from the vegetable kingdom and much less of animal products. It has been noted that people have lived for 30 to 100 days without the items that are popularly seen as food. However, it is unlikely that a person can live more than a week or hardly up to about 10 days without water. In this regard, the following are among several critical functions of water in helping us to stay alive:
1. Break up waste material
2. Personal hygiene outside the body
2. Cleaning the body from within
4. Regulating body temperature
5. As a solvent for nutrients.
6. Chemical processing
7. Transport vehicle
8. Lubrication.
9. Generation of electricity.
chidebe26@gmail.com,
chidec2001@yahoo.com
+234-8037108507 (Text Messages; WhatsApp)
+234-8125074686 (Calls)
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