Everyone Needs A Little H2o

The Great Dehydration was a result of a stomach virus which apparently caused the body to lose water. As the body lost water, water moved out of the cells in attempt to keep solute concentrations balanced across the cell membrane. Sports drinks contain water as well as “electrolytes” like

All throughout an athletes life they are told to drink plenty of water, and replace their fluids. Athletes are told this enough to the point where it makes numbs them since they heard it so many times to the point where they forget the extreme importance of proper hydration, proper hydration. Proper hydration is not only key to optimum health, but also to great performance. Athletes are told to drink plenty of water, but do they really know why? It is this writer’s opinion that a greater understanding of proper hydration can lead to better health and performance for athletes and help spread awareness for dehydration and over hydration.

There is also a test you can give yourself to check if you are hydrated or dehydrated. This test is called a skin turgor (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000982.htm#Signs%20and%20tests). This is performed by pulling the skin on the back of your hand, and observes how long it takes for your skin to return to normal. If your skin remains in a pinched type form, your body is dehydrated. Another test you can use to determine if you are hydrated or not, is to take a sample of your urine and see if it’s a dark shade of yellow. If it is, you are not drinking enough water to hydrate your body. For the Cerritos College Wrestling team we needed to take a hydration test, which determines how much weight we are allowed to lose during the season. For this test, physicians took a urine sample then tested the color of it with a magnifying machine.

It is evident that healthy adults running a marathon that replaces with only free water will run into pathophysiology challenges that will affect performance. Adequate fluid intake is crucial for prolonged, strenuous exercises to maintain adequate hydration, thermoregulation, maintain plasma volume and avoid dehydration (Duvillard et al, 2004). Although athletes are prone to hydrate as much as they can during extensive marathons, research shows that fluid replacement with only free water or even hypotonic beverages can be detrimental.

In an article titled, “Obey your thirst, just not necessarily with a sports drink” written by Jennifer Sygo, many claims are made towards drinking water over sports drinks. Sygo informs the reader that the only time a person should drink a sports drink is when they are doing a lengthy workout; typically two hours or more. Other than that, the average person should not be drinking as many sports drinks as people do today.

Other than the symptoms inside the body dehydration causes blood to be thicker as a consequence the body would have to work much harder to be able to circulate blood, blood circulation is certainly important as the best muscle warmer is circulation during warm-up at the beginning of a performance to prevent injury. In dancing dancers must learn the choreographies so it is important that their brain functions well, dehydration affects the brain by making it less active, making it hard to concentrate and they can feel

Water is essential for life as we know it on earth. It is used by plants

Water is one of the most important elements on Earth and also for our body. We need water to work and function properly and well. Without enough supply of water, our body will grind to a halt and collapse.

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The major reason anyone drinks fluid before, during and after physical activity is to replace the water that is lost through sweat. If the water isn't replaced dehydration will occur and performance will be hampered. The purpose of sports drinks is to help rehydrate your body quickly and help improve performance and productivity. This is accomplished through a well-balanced mix of water, sugar (carbohydrates) and salts (electrolytes), the major ingredients in most sports drinks. These ingredients, combined with a variety of fruit flavours, create pleasant tasting drinks that, according to the companies, are suppose to help your athletic performance. Results prove that commercial sport drinks generally accomplish what they set out to do.

Water is considered as an essential for human existence. We all can survive without food for some day but no one can live without water at least two days. Human body consists of 70% percent of water and our globe is covered by 69.9% percent of water. But unfortunately the useable fresh water is just 2.5% out of it. Water is a social good, water is an economic good, water has ecological value and water has religious, moral and cultural value.

Very recently, I watched a program on public television about freshwater. It really got me interested in thinking about how important water is to human survival. Fresh and clean water is vital to the very existence of the human race. Without it, all living things would die, including human beings. So how important is water to humans and why?

Hydration with water and other water-based liquids is critical for survival and functioning of the body’s organs. Water is 60% of the total human body composition. Water is involved in the

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