The start of a New Year brings with it countless resolutions to make the year better than the last.
Many people will set themselves up for a ‘dry’ January after the excesses of Christmas and New Year. But putting aside your alcohol consumption may help your liver but only if you replace the hydration with regular consumption of water.
Staying Hydrated
Staying hydrated is the simplest lifestyle change you can make to be a little healthier in the New Year. Most people will have heard that adults should drink 2-litres of water a day…but few of them get nowhere near that figure.
Water is the key to a happy, healthy body. It supports many critical functions of the body, helps fight fatigue, dry skin and recuring headaches. Simply put, staying hydrated will make you feel better and support your energy levels all day long.
The Human Body & Water
60% of the human body is made up of water. It uses this to drive a number of bodily functions including digestion, circulation and the absorption of nutrients. 75% of the brain is made up of water and the brain works with the posterior pituitary at the base of the skull and commands many of your body’s needs. It helps your body conserve water and prevent dehydration, tells your kidneys how much water to reserve for bodily functions and what amount it can free as urine.
If you overlook your water consumption, even mild dehydration can lead to several impaired functions. So sensible hydrating is probably one of the simplest things you can do for your body to improve your health.
Drinking Water Aids Weight Loss
So, here’s another New Year resolution that many people make – let’s lose weight.
It is said that drinking a glass of water before each meal will help you feel fuller faster and inhibit your usual calorie intake. Recent studies showed that middle-aged adults who drank half a litre of water before eating reduced-calorie meals lost more weight than adults who only ate a reduced-calorie diet.
Further research showed that drinking water before eating any meal or snack resulted in eating smaller food portions at any time the day.
Is Your New Year Resolution – To Get Fit?
Now you’re feeling healthier and losing weight just drinking more water, perhaps you’d also like to be fitter. Many people believe that sports drinks will aid recovery after exercise. But that’s not always borne out by research.
Unless your workout is longer than an hour or you’re losing significant amounts of sweat, it makes much more sense to simply just drink water. In fact, if your exercise lasts less than an hour or isn’t particularly strenuous, drinking a sports drink may lead to weight gain.
While drinking water during and after exercise can help you maintain peak performance, reduce your heart rate, and reduce the chance of you developing heat exhaustion.
Your Final New Year Resolution – The Source of Your Water
OK you can get water from a tap but depending on where you live there may be problems with the hardness of the water or to make it safer to drink, the taste of chlorine in it.
You’ll not be surprised therefore to hear that at LoveWater we advocate the drinking of our perfectly tasting Blenheim Palace Natural Mineral Water that was a worthy winner of a Gold Award in The British Bottlers Institute annual competition.
Blenheim Palace Natural Mineral Water is available in glass bottles that are 100% recyclable or in 11-litre plastic containers that we collect and recycle. So, the water is environmentally friendly as well as great tasting. The benefit of having 11-litres of water always on tap in your home are numerous. It will encourage the drinking of more water by every member of your family and since we deliver to your door, so there are no frequent trips to the shops to buy water.
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In the meantime, Happy New Year.
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