Water - The Essential Element
Only water works! – Replace two litres each and every day of your
life!
Water is the most important nutrient of all. It
is what your blood, cells, muscles, even your bones is mostly made.
A healthy person who weighs around 65 kilos carries about 40 litres
of water around – 25 litres inside the cells, 15 litres outside, including
5 litres in the blood. Let yourself become dehydrated and the chemical
reactions in your cells involved in fat burning become sluggish. Your
cells cannot build new tissue effectively,
toxic products build up in your bloodstream, your blood volume decreases
so that you have less oxygen and nutrients transported to your cells
– all of which are essential to fat burning.
I hope by now I have convinced you that drinking
large quantities of water – which won’t seem too large once you acquire
the taste for them – you will wonder how you ever managed with so little,
or expected your system to work effectively without it. Tea, coffee,
alcohol, once so enticing will lose at least part of their attraction
as you become aware of their dehydrating properties.
Perhaps the biggest bonus is that by drinking much
more water you will find you don’t want to eat so much; you won’t have
to diet constantly or restrict your intake in order to keep your weight
down. Once you begin to recognise your body’s thirst signals and stop
misinterpreting them as hunger signals, you will find that the urge
to overeat disappears. You can throw away the diet books and say goodbye
to those miserable times when, frightened by the scale reading, you
resolved to embark on yet another masochistic diet. Headaches and migraines
disappear, digestive problems clear up – no more constipation and colds
and flu will clear quicker. Correct water levels prevent cholesterol
excesses. Toxins and free-radicals will be washed out; skin takes
on a younger, fresher appearance.
As you drink more water, you will be ever less inclined
to put rubbish into your system in the form of chocolate bars, fried
foods and artificially-flavoured substances. Drink it away from food
and don’t use tap-water unless you at least filter it. Distilled water
is the purest,
