Know Your Beverages

Water accounts for over 70% of our body weight. It's vital to our health since it lubricates tissue, flushes out toxins, carries nutrients and regulates body temperature. For this reasons, it is important to remain well-hydrated at all times. In an average day (without intense physical exertion) we lose 2 to 2.5 liters of water through waste elimination, sweat and perspiration. To stay alert and healthy we need to replace this loss. We can get water from fluids and from certain foods, especially vegetables and fruits. ...More