Raise Your Glass to Good Health with Water

There are a lot of diet or lifestyle eating choices out there. Sometimes it is hard to tell what will work or not.  I would challenge you to find one healthy way of eating that does not center around drinking water. It sounds so simple but drinking water has so many benefits to making you feel great. Here are some of my favorite benefits:

• Lose weight: Drinking water helps you lose weight because it flushes down the by-products of fat breakdown. Drinking water reduces hunger, it’s an effective appetite suppressant so you’ll eat less. Plus, water has zero calories and it is FREE!

• Healthy Skin: Water helps to replenish skin tissues, moisturizes skin and increases skin elasticity.

• Better Exercise: Drinking water regulates your body temperature. That means you’ll feel more energetic when doing exercises. Water also helps to fuel your muscle.

• Better Digestion and Constipation: Fiber and water goes hand in hand so that you can have your daily bowel movement.

• Relieves Fatigue: Water is used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body. If your body lacks of water, your heart, for instance, needs to work harder to pump out the oxygenated blood to all cells, so are the rest of the vital organs, your organs will be exhausted and so will you.

Staying Hydrated is KEY to a great day. For most people that is drinking ½ of your body weight each day in water. A good way to check is to make sure your urine is pale yellow or clear in color. You can get creative with your water and flavor it with fruit or vegetables (raspberries and cucumbers are my favorite) or make it fun with special water bottles (I have some with photos of my kids). You can also set up a challenge with family and friends or join the Lifestyle Forward Drink Water challenge in July (Check www.facebook.com/lifestyleforward for details)

Start today and raise your glass of water to toast a great summer!