Step No. 1 Water.
Welcome to this season of healthy living, a period when all you readers of this column will learn how to live lives free from diseases and sicknesses. From today and for the next seven days, we shall be looking at the 7 Steps to living a disease-free life.
At the end of this period, for those that will do what I shall be discussing, healthy living will become their lifestyle.
Today we begin with water and I have chosen water because of its simplicity and the serious consequences that lack of it causes.
Water is life and it is absolutely essential for total wellbeing. Water makes up about 75% of the body of a male adult [this is about 10% less in the female].
The reason for this is that the male has more muscle mass.
There are approximately 100 trillion cells in the body and each one is 80% water.
The total water content of an adult is in the region of 45 liters and this varies depending on size, weight and the lifestyle of the individual.
This quantity of water is distributed in the extracellular space that surrounds all the cells of the body and the water is connected to the water inside the cells through openings in the membrane of the cells.
Water is always being filtered between the extracellular and intracellular spaces.
The quality of the extracellular fluid is most vital for the intracellular fluid and by extension the wellbeing of the cells, tissues, organs and the body as a whole. The extracellular space is 90% water, while the water in the intracellular is 75%.
The total amount of water at the different stages of life vary: a new born baby is 90% water and as the child grows the water content of the body reduces to 75% in the adult. The body of the elderly is 50% water.
The amount of water in the different compartments [organ systems] also vary; here are some examples, brain 83%, heart 78% lungs 80%, kidneys 82%, blood 90% and the bones are 22%.
The quality of the water in and around the cells is dependent on the following factors: the volume of the water in the body; if the water is less than optimum, a state that is referred to as dehydration, affects the quality of the water adversely.
In this state of dehydration a lot of things go wrong, some of which are reduction in the rate of flow of blood in the circulatory system.
As this becomes chronic, waste products accumulate in and around the cells. Nutrients, oxygen, vitamins, minerals and the likes become deficient at the cellular level.
The type of food eaten is another factor that affects the quality of the water. It is important to note that the type of food we generally eat which I always describe as ‘dead’ causes the water to be acidic.
On the other hand, eating living foods make the fluids alkaline. The lifestyle of an individual, whether active or sedentary also affects the quality of the body waters.
All these factors will ultimately render the fluids of the body acidic, a situation that supports diseases, infections and cancer.
Determining the quality of water in the body is by the pH scale. The pH scale is from 0 to 14. A pH of 7.0 is neutral, one from 0 to 6.9 is acidic and from 7.0 to 14 it is alkaline.
Unlike the acidic type of water, the alkaline water or environment supports life and health and it is for this reason that I always advice that we all should drink water regularly.
We drink water, not because of thirst, but because it is mandatory for healthy living, for when you become thirsty your body [cells] is already dehydrated.
How can the alkalinity of the body be maintained?
Firstly, drinking sufficient amounts of good water, like LASENA ARTESIAN MINERAL AND ALKALINE WATER.
This type of water contains energy rich alkaline minerals, electrons that directly neutralize the acidic minerals.
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