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Monday, May 12, 2025

Superfood of the Week- Water

by

Danielle Da Silva
2443 days ago
20180906
Water

Water

This week we'll be cov­er­ing the world's most un­der­rat­ed su­per­foods - wa­ter! Wa­ter is one of the most im­por­tant in­gre­di­ents to a healthy and sus­tain­able lifestyle, but can have ma­jor ef­fects on your health if it isn't clean. Pure drink­ing wa­ter makes it much eas­i­er for the cleans­ing or­gans like the liv­er and kid­neys to use. Clean drink­ing wa­ter is al­so more pleas­ant to drink, but for many world wide- this is a priv­i­lege that they don't have. Ac­cord­ing to the foun­da­tion Wa­ter Aid, a char­i­ty ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing wa­ter to brin­ing clean wa­ter and toi­lets to those that need it, one in nine peo­ple do not have ac­cess to clean wa­ter.

Wa­ter is need­ed all over the world and is one of na­ture's most abun­dant re­sources. It's called a su­per­food be­cause it's one sub­stance that our bod­ies can­not live with­out. Our bod­ies are made up of about 70 per­cent wa­ter. It is es­sen­tial to our sur­vival, but it's the clean­li­ness of the wa­ter that re­al­ly keeps us in op­ti­mum health.

How much wa­ter do you need?

It's com­mon knowl­edge that we need a dai­ly in­take of wa­ter to sur­vive, but do we know how much we re­al­ly need? The stan­dard and most com­mon rec­om­men­da­tion is to drink eight to 10 glass­es, of at least eight ounces each per day. But this the­o­ry can vary based on many dif­fer­ent fac­tors such as, how ac­tive you are, the type of cli­mate you live in, ex­ter­nal and in­ter­nal fac­tors. As a mat­ter of fact, you may need to drink much more than the rec­om­mend­ed dai­ly amount.

Health Ben­e­fits

Boosts your brain

Since your brain is made up of about 75 per­cent wa­ter, hav­ing a good wa­ter in­take can help you to con­cen­trate bet­ter and be more alert. As an added bonus your en­er­gy lev­els are al­so boost­ed!

Pro­motes Weight Loss

Wa­ter helps to flush out the un­want­ed tox­ins in your body, in­clud­ing the by-prod­ucts of fat. Wa­ter al­so works as an ap­petite sup­pres­sant, rais­es your me­tab­o­lism and is calo­rie free.

Main­tains Reg­u­lar­i­ty

Wa­ter con­sump­tion is es­sen­tial for prop­er di­ges­tion. It helps with keep­ing your bow­el move­ments reg­u­lar and pre­vents con­sti­pa­tion.

Boosts Your Im­mune Sys­tem

If your body is hy­drat­ed- you're less like­ly to get sick. Drink­ing a lot of wa­ter can help with fight­ing against the flu, can­cer and even heart at­tacks! And wa­ter is FREE!


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