Are you sure you drink enough?

About Dehydration

Dehydration happens when water loss is not compensated by water intake. It could happen because you do not drink enough to meet the daily requirements of minimum 1.5 l and/or when you experience excessive fluid loss, due to intense physical activity, a very hot climate like in Maldives or illness involving fever or diarrhoea.

If you are considering to lose weight and increasing your metabolism you need to drink water depending to you weight.

Here is a little weight based formula to help you to figure out how much water you should be drinking daily. Take your current weight and divide by two. Take that number and drink that many ounces of water a day. In my case if I weigh 170 pounds, half of it would be 85 so I need to drink 85 ounces of water a day, that is something like 2.5 liters of water a day.

Stay Hydrated!

Dehydration can be avoided by drinking the recommended daily amount of water.

When we feel thirsty, dehydration has already set into a certain degree. So, everyone should drink regularly throughout the day, before they even feel thirsty.

We should always keep in mind that infants have special water requirements. Why?
 Because their bodies contain relatively more water than adults’ bodies
 Because they have a higher skin surface/body volume ratio
 Because they excrete a more diluted urine due to their immature kidneys.
 Because it’s also more difficult for them to communicate their thirst.

Elderly people, too, should be especially aware of the importance of drinking enough water mainly because the sensation of thirst diminishes with age, and their renal abilities decrease as well.

Tips to prevent dehydration:
 Don’t wait until you are thirsty to drink, you’re already dehydrated! A good habit is to sip water all along the day
 Keep in mind that some people depend on others to drink: babies, sick people and the elderly.