I hear a lot about people who drink soda and Gatorade and tea and juice all day long, and don't drink water, and they drink those things every day, and they can't stop being fat, because they can't stop drinking their sacred sugar water.
This is a topic I'm not very positive on because this is one of the biggest reasons why people are overweight and out of shape. So I'm going to tell you some scary things about drinking like this. Ready Kids?
Do you see that glass of terrifying clear liquid? Yeah, that's right, I'm talking about water. If you don't drink half your body weight of this each day, I'm talking about an ounce to a pound, you're not drinking enough. Don't add soda, don't add juice, don't add tea, and don't add energy drinks and coffee. Add only water, and drink a lot of it if you want to live a long time.
If you have a kidney stone problem, that's your fault unless you have some weird disorder. Drinking a lot of water reduces kidney stones. Water keeps your kidneys clean and flushed out. If your pee is dark yellow every time you make your visit to sprinkle bowl, you're not drinking enough. Or you're drinking a lot of soda instead of water.
Fruit juice is good once a day, have a glass of cranberry or blueberry juice once a day. It's ok to have a little fruit juice that's pure and good once a day. Something like one of those V8 fruit and veggie blends are great once a day. Soda every once in a while is fine, but soda every day is not good for you because of the sodium levels and the sugar content. It was funny, my brother was with some people when they did a test to see how much the dried sugar content of the average soda was, it turned out that it's about a whopping third of the can.
That's not good.
So drink soda once in a while, enjoy yourself on the occasion, but soda habits are among one of the worst because when you drink nothing but soda, your arteries are pretty much pumping Elmer's glue. Another thing about soda is, is that it contains a lot of salt. If you think that you're hydrating yourself with soda, you're an idiot because there's a lot of salt in soda. It dries you out, it's just like saying beer quenches your thirst.
A good thing to drink during a workout where you're sweating a lot, say in football practice or something, things like Gatorade and Powerade are good to replace your electro lights and salts. An important thing about containing water, is that you have to have salt in your body so you can contain that water and absorb it. If you don't have salt in your system and you're drinking a lot of water, it's going to drain right out of you and you want be able to keep it in.
So on those long days of walking in the sun, or those hours spent working at the construction sight, you should probably be eating something with salt in it so you can contain your water.
Also, drinking from things like salt filters and others aren't as good for you as entirely purified water. One of those stone water filters that make your water come out so clean it literally takes in contaminates if you spill some on the floor it's so clean, is the kind of water you want. Those glacier stops also are a good way to get your purified inexpensive water.
I have to say, since I started drinking purified water instead of tap water and fridge water and mineral water, I feel a whole lot better because it's very light and doesn't take time to get into your system, it just goes right in and stays there until you either sweat it out or pee it out.
Sports drinks are a wise decision when performing and working hard, but not all day long. At least ninety percent of your fluids that you're consuming, should be clear.
Your brain is eighty percent water, it's a true fact that's been proven over and over again. So if you're not drinking a lot, your brain isn't as hydrated as it needs to be, and common brain functions won't be as easy as they normally are. That's why if people are dehydrated, they're dizzy, and sometimes in serious enough cases, they go into shock or seizures.
Drink water, there's a reason God put it on this planet. There wouldn't be so much of it if weren't made out of it.
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