19 Jun 08 Water

It’s one of the best things you can have. Not coffee, tea, soda, lemonade, but good old plain tap water.

Bottled water is mostly a fashion fad, and it’s a crazy waste of energy and materials. In the US alone there are tons of plastics bottles going into landfill sites each year. Most people in the US, and most of the rest of the western world have perfectly safe drinkable water from the faucet. I personally drink cupfuls of it every day. In fact bottled water has been shown to have up to one thousand times more bacteria in it than water from the tap, and of course, it’s thousands of times more expensive too!

I always drink a glassful of water when I get up in the morning. It helps to re-hydrate you after sleeping, and not drinking all night.

I spend a lot of time at my desk during the day, and I always have a glass of water on it. I’ve got a pint mug of water there right now.

Drink water during your meals and it will help you digest your food, and keep you hydrated at the same time.

After exercise, and also particularly during hot weather when you sweat more, it’s a good idea to drink extra water too.

If you do drink coffee or soda, or other caffeinated drinks, you should drink an extra glass of water for every cup of coffee you drink, as caffeine is a diuretic, and stimulates your kidneys to excrete more water. That’s why drinking lots of coffee makes you run to the bathroom. The same goes for alcohol too.

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