Although we sincerely strive to maintain a good balanced diet but we often ignore another most important component essential for good health, water, a very simple yet important part of our daily diet. It comprises a significant amount of our body (about 70%) and Water is very crucial for optimal functioning of various physiological processes, from regulating the body temperature to eliminating wastes. Water plays a significant role in determining your health. Proper hydration supports cognitive function, boosts energy level whereas lack of hydration can create a lot of problems and increase the chance of getting affected by several health issues. Now let us understand why water is so important for maintaining a healthier you.
Water helps our body in various ways:
- Water helps in maintain body temperature; it helps to regulate body temperature through perspiration (Sweating).
- Water helps to carry the nutrients to the cells.
- Protects the tissues; including eyes, nose and mouth etc.
- Water helps in eliminating wastes; it helps in proper metabolism of your body by getting rid of urea, excess electrolytes, harmful components through urination, bowel movement and sweating.
- Helps in maintaining a healthy skin.
- Helps in digestion; adequate water intake helps in proper digestion of food and ensures nutrients absorption to the cells.
- Helps in lubricating the joints and spinal cord.
Other than all of these, water plays a significant role in maintaining, gaining or losing your weight. Water indeed is one of the key for achieving the desired goal. Let’s discuss in detail.
Role of water in losing weight:
As per various reports, water is found to be very effective while losing unhealthy weights. It helps in various ways like suppressing appetite, stimulates metabolism, which helps you to achieve your desired weight much faster and also helps in keeping up your energy, which helps you to perform the exercises properly. Although, the most important role of water in losing weights is, it helps to increase your metabolism process which helps your body to remove the wastes and stored fats.
Note: Only drinking adequate water does not help you to lose weight, it is true that it plays a significant role but it is only useful when followed along with proper diet and exercise.
Role of water in gaining weight:
Although, water does not directly contribute in weight gain but plays a supportive role in the process. As I have already discussed earlier, that water carries the adequate amount of nutrients to the cells which makes it easy for the cells to absorb and ensure better results. Water plays an important role in muscle functioning and recovery which contributes to the muscle growth. All these passively helps you to gain healthy body weight.
Role of water in maintaining healthy weight:
- Drinking ample amount of water helps to keeps diseases away.
- Helps to keep up your gut health.
- Increases metabolism.
- Helps in proper utilization of the nutrients to the cells.
How much water should you drink daily?
It depends on various factor like age, what kind of activity you perform and some external factors like temperature, weather condition etc. But as per studies, an average adult man needs to drink 3 liters to 4 liters of water and for an average woman its 2.5 liters to 3 liters per day.
Prioritizing adequate water intake is as important as a balanced diet, they both are incomplete without each other. So, in order to get one step closer to your fitness goal, consider water as a key ingredient or basically something which helps you to stay healthy and active. Hope the blog was helpful, I will get back soon with some more informative contents which will make your fitness journey much easier.