Personally I find drinking enough water very difficult, not only because I don’t really enjoy it unless I’m very thirsty in the gym, but I don’t have time to be on the loo all day.
However unlike many of my friends I never drink soda drinks. I have one friend who drinks zero water and lives off Diet Coke!!!! Luckily she eats tons of vegetables so gets her water through them. But that is not enough.
According to the recommended daily allowance we are meant to have 12 cups of water every day to stay hydrated.
Luckily for those of us who find it difficult to drink enough water we can get a lot of it from the water our food contains as well as the water that is released when our food digests, with a healthy plant-based diet we can probably get at least 4 to 5 cups per day from vegetables, however we still need to drink the remaining 67 cups according to the scientist. They claim 20% of us drink no water at all and 42% of us drink a mere two glasses. Many of us drink too much soda, coffee and juice, which has too much sugar in it. If we don’t get enough water we basically dry ourselves out in other words dehydration. Seeing as we are made up of mainly water it makes sense that the lack of it contributes to chronic health problems such as adult onset diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, high blood pressure and the list goes on.
It’s also important to know the water we are drinking, right now we are experiencing a crisis with the water in our environment. In some countries Rivers no longer reach their destinations being diverted for irrigation or dams for hydroelectric Power.
When water travels downhill it picks up calcium and magnesium and becomes more mineralised and more supportive of our health.
Studies in Sweden have shown that if everyone in the country were to drink water with the highest naturally occurring magnesium levels death from heart attacks would drop by about 19%.
Basically water needs to get where it was destined to go and in our case that should be directly into our bodies not via soda or coffee.
Drinking one coffee in the morning is not going to kill you, however many people drink several throughout the day. Coffee however is a diuretic and actually causes the body to excrete more water than it contains, leading to further dehydration.
I now force myself to just carry around a 2 L bottle and sip on it and sometimes by miracle refill it halfway through the day and start again.
Get sipping!