To keep your body well hydrated, consume enough water. Follow your thirst and drink beverages with meals.
Because milk, juice and some other beverages are mostly water, they count toward your daily water intake.
So does water for solid foods, although you can’t really measure it. In average, moisture in food provides about 20 percent of your water intake.
Our body weight is about two thirds water. Water is essential to enable the body’s delicate chemical to take place.
An adult loses around 1.9 L of water every day in breath, feces sweat and urine. Part of that water is replace in food (which is 70 percent water); the rest is replaced by drinking.
People are unlikely to live for more tan a few days of they have nothing at all to eat or drink, but they can survive for about two months without food if they have enough to drink.
Caffeinated beverages - coffee tea and some soft drinks - contribute to your day’s total water intake, as non caffeinated drinks do.
While a high intake of caffeine may have a diuretic effect, the effect likely won’t last long.
Diuretic effect means water loss though increased urination. Any diuretic effect from alcoholic drinks appears to be short term, too; the effect may change during the day and may depend on how much water you drinks before meals.
If the body loses to much water, dehydration occurs. The symptoms include dry skin, weakening muscles, kidney problems, disorientation and hallucinations.
Drinking for Your Health
