Tuesday, January 20, 2009

9 BENEFITS OF WATER FOR OUR BODY


Have you know exactly, for the health benefits of the water body? You may have heard and read that long since water is a necessary component of the body. In fact more than just a feeling thirsty, drink 8 - 10 glasses of water a day routine can make the various systems that are in our bodies to work optimally.

1. Skin healthy. Drinking enough water can keep kelembapan skin, due to the influence of hot air from outside the body. Water is essential to maintain skin elasticity and softness, and prevent drought.

2. Protect and lubricate joints and muscle movement. Most of the fluid that protects and lubricate joints and muscles movement of water. Mengonsumsi water before, during and after physical activity, it means that minimize the risk of muscle cramps and fatigue.

3. Maintain body temperature stable. Sweat is a natural mechanism for controlling body temperature. To be able to sweat, the body requires a lot of water.

4. Clean up toxic. Feed water is enough to help the process of disposal of toxic occur in kidney and heart.

5. Stabilize disposal. Consumption of water will be enough to help the digestive system working in the large intestine. This will prevent interference disposal (constipation), as bowel movements become more smoothly, so that feses more easily removed.

6. Meet the needs of body fluids. Average per day, adults have lost as much as 10 cups liquid. Expenditure is going through a liquid sweat, breath, urin, and feses. The lack of body fluids, even if only a few will soon cause major disruption, such as difficulty concentrating, headache, tired, and restless.

7. Minimize the risk of heart attack. The researchers from the University of Loma Linda, California, conducted research on 20,000 respondents (men and women) healthy, and found that the respondents are at least drinking water more than 5 glasses a day have a risk of death due to heart attack or disruption of smaller, than respondents who drank less than 2 glasses per day.

8. Minimize the risk of infection in the body's organs. Consumption of adequate water can prevent the formation of kidney stones and the risk of kidney infection, bladder, and urine channel. Results of research that dilansir JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) at the end of 2004, states that women who drank 5 glasses of water every day tend to be at risk of bowel cancer 45% lower than women who drank only less than 2 glasses per day.

9. Restore the body's condition. Feed adequate water when ill, nutritious ease fever, and replace the fluids that terbuang. This condition is supporting the recovery process.

Quoted from the Koran KOMPAS March 2006

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