Drinking Water is Important for DigestionYour body is about 70% water, and it is important that you maintain that fluid level or you could find yourself with some major health problems. We lose fluid all day from perspiring, breathing, urinating, and other bodily functions, and need to replace it to prevent becoming dehydrated.

Water is life-sustaining and although we can do without food for a couple of weeks, and even longer in some reported cases, we cannot do without water for more than about 3 days. It is very simple, drink water regularly or get dehydrated and die!

Water is used by every single cell in the body; it helps transports nutrients, provides moisture to the membranes, flushes toxins, protects and lubricates joints, cushions the spinal column, and much more.

Drinking Water is Important for Digestion

Drinking water is important for the digestive process because water aids the body to break down whatever we eat so that it can be absorbed better by the body and be used for fuel. Drinking water does not dilute the stomach acids as claimed by some; the digestive system will break down the food you ingest into nutrients regardless, and drinking water just helps it to do so.

It is not necessary to drink water with a meal or even before a meal in order to digest your food, but many doctors say that it does definitely help digest food more easily. Dr. Susan E. Brown, PhD suggests drinking water that has been simmered with a few slices of ginger in is a great way to stimulate digestion.

Drinking water also aids in flushing waste from the intestine and helps keep the stool moist and the colon lubricated, which prevents constipation. Chronic constipation is a common gastrointestinal ailment, on which millions of people spend a lot of money. The simplest way to get rid of constipation is to drink water, exercise and add fibre to your diet.

Dehydration is one of the most common causes of constipation because when we do not drink enough water and our body becomes dehydrated, the large intestine soaks up the water from our food waste, which results in a hard stool that is difficult to pass. Drinking water regularly will result in the food waste passing through the intestine easily and on to the colon and eventually vacated as faeces.

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WebMD

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