Monday, 16 January 2012

WATER IS IMPORTANT PART 1

Water is arguably the most important of all nutrients we need, not least because around 60-70% of our body is water. It serves many other vital functions in the body.


  • Water provides the transportation system of the body, it moves everything, like nutrients, oxygen, vitamins and mineral to where they are needed and takes waste products to the excretory organs.
  • Water plays a vital role in Tempreture regulation, again at a simple level. It distributes heat around the body from sites where it is produced, such as exercising muscle, to cooler places like the skin's surface.
  • water is the environment in which every single chemical reaction that occurs in the body takes place. The water content of each individual cell and indeed the whole body needs to be kept constant between very narrow limits, so that metabolism and all the other body functions e.g digestion, remain efficiently. 
TO BE CONTINUED... 

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