Hydration Awareness week - Are you drinking enough?
Water is one of those things that we all know we need.....but do you know just how effective water can be in helping a great deal of health problems?
Water helps with so many things from how well we focus and think in the day, to how much nutrition we can get from our food. Drinking water helps us digest the food we eat and the circulation of this nutrients around our body👩⚕️🥗💗
But how much should we be drinking? About 2-2.5 litres 😳
The bottom line!
Water is important.....full stop! Here are some ideas to encourage drinking enough:
- Always carry a water bottle
- Keep track of how much you are drinking
- Pace yourself, aim to drink half by midday
Did you know that the disks in our back rely on water to function, and if we get dehydrated they get dehydrated too? As soon as we drink more water, hey presto and the disks work more effectively again
Water helps prevent constipation, kidney stones, urinary tract infections, thrombosis, heart disease, hypertension, hyperglycaemia and exercises asthma. With such a huge number of benefits, we should all be drinking so much more