Your Water Diet

Your Water Diet
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Fact: Caffeine dehydrates the body

Nutritionists will tell you that we need to drink at least 8 glasses of water per day. There is probably no other nutritional guideline component that is so easy, so cheap, so readily available as water, but is still so little utilized.

A glass of water is 8 fluid ounces of cool, pure water. Eight glasses is 64 ounces, or two quarts. One half-gallon of water. Drink one half-gallon of water every day for the rest of your life.

This is in addition to whatever other fluids that you take in. Your Water Diet does not influence your current diet. It just insists that you drink one half-gallon of water every day. You should not drink both quarts in one sitting, because that would probably be uncomfortable, but it won't hurt. Spread them out throughout your day, or concentrate them at convenient times. Use filtered water, bottled water, or ordinary tap water available in your community. Most water is safe; don't drink unsafe water! Just make sure that there is no flavoring, additives or coloring. And make it cool.

Minerals appear in most community water supplies, and are hard to avoid. That is OK, just don't add anything yourself to the water, or buy any water that is represented as being more than just plain water. Do not eat ice cubes because it's bad for your teeth. You can keep a water jug in the refrigerator, or use a water cooler, but do not bias your measurement of how much you've had by including ice cubes in your drink.

If you are not currently drinking that much liquid, you will probably find it takes a bit of getting used to, but the end result is well worth the effort. If you are cold, and need to warm up, go ahead and sip warm water, but only as the exception. If you are otherwise comfortable, drink cool water.

Cool water absorbs heat from your body. It takes 6 calories to heat a glass of 50 degree Fahrenheit water up to body temperature. Plus, using cool, clear water is important to the adjustment of your body's metabolism set-point. There is no need to worry about side-effects--humans have consumed water for thousands of years, and our bodies are 97% water! The FDA doesn't have to worry about these diets; there is no need to change any other aspect of your life.

Symptoms of dehydration

Increased heart rate
Dry mouth
Lack of tears
Poor skin tone
Sunken eyes
Weakness
Dizziness
Muscle cramps
Pain in the chest and/or abdomen
Cold, clammy hands
Confusion

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Questions:

Cool water absorbs ________ from your body.

It takes ________ calories to heat 50 degree Fahrenheit water up to body temperature.

Nutritionists will tell you that we need to drink at least ________ glasses of water per day.

A glass of water is ________ fluid ounces of cool, pure water.

Drink one-half ________ of water every day for the rest of your life.

Our bodies are ________% water.

Fact: Caffeine ________ the body

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