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water is crucial to our survival, in fact a new born baby is 75 percent water but as
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you grow elder, that number reduces to 60 or 55 percent.
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But that's still a significant number, so what would happen if you suddenly stopped
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drinking water?!
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Water is like a fuel to most of your organs, it helps your brain to function properly,
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lowers your blood pressure, and strengthens your muscles!
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But since your brain is 75% water, it's the first organ to suffer out of dehydration.
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Even if you avoid water for a single day, your brain will literally start to shrink.
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It will have to work harder to survive since your energy level is going to be low.
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So even a simple task will suddenly be difficult for you to perform.
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You will be in a bad mood, you will start loosing your ability to concentrate and most
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importantly you are going to suffer from a memory loss!
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Your body will try to survive with minimum water thats available within you, so your
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skin will get dry, you will start feeling tired and dizzy!
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After 3 days without water, your organs will have a difficult time to survive, in fact
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they will start to shut down one after another.
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In other words, you will slowly start dying.
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Most people won't even survive more than 3 days.
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(make it more than 3 days)
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So even 1 day without water can have significant negative consequences.
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That doesn't mean you have to constantly keep drinking water, because over-hydration
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can also hurt you.
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Despite the importance of water to our survival, almost 800 million people don't even have
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access to clean water , thats more than twice the population of united states, and up to
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8 million people die annually because of that!
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So if you have clean water to drink, thats already something to be grateful for.
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But, How Much Water Should you Drink a Day!
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Unfortunately there isn't an exact answer, since there are a lot of factors to consider
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such as your age, weight, height and so on.!
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A person who does a lot of physical work needs more water than the one who is in front of
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the computer all the day!
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But in general, its something between 2.5 liters a day for woman and 3.5 liters for man!
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The best time to drink water is when you just wake up since you haven't been hydrated
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for the last 7 or 8 hours!
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By the way, at least one fifth of your water is going to come from the food that you eat!
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Don't overcomplicate it, simply keep a bottle of water with you all the time and drink whenever
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you feel thirsty!
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So keep drinking and stay awesome!