Water is essential for life and maintaining good levels of fluid intake is essential for peak physical and mental performance. Your body is made up mostly of water and usually decreases the older you become – a peak of 75% if you were a child and 60%, as a teenager or adult.

You can survive without food for about seven weeks, but survived without water, would be only a couple of days at most – even in cooler climates.

If you're a normal person can lose up to 750 mlall day, just breathing and skin! Lose 1.5 liters of normal bodily functions ("Nature Calls") and 200 ml of "normal sweating. So you can see, even living in a temperate climate like New Zealand will require more than 2 liters of water per day replace only those liquids.

Fitness increases the amount you lose in sweat, so you will have to replace large quantities. If you are sick, you may loseeven more.

The effects of dehydration

So if you lose more water to replace it, dehydrated will. Dehydration will often result in severe headaches, poor concentration and fatigue. Young people tend to lose more water than adults, because we are usually more exercise, so it is important that we drink enough water to keep Our stocks in hot weather or During and after work to fill.

Drink enough to get good level of hydration

You should not drink enoughshould the amount of water you lose through exercise and loss of natural balance. normal metabolic processes of our body produces about 250 ml and 750 ml, is also obtained from the food we eat. This means that we need at least a liter of fluid to replace what we just lost.

The studies, that as long as you drink something that you win some benefit demonstrated. All drinks, some form of water will help re-hydration when water is pure,Fruit juices and soft drinks will be better than tea, coffee and beer!

Some scientists now say that the caffeine in a "typical cup of tea or coffee is not dehydrating effect that first thought. Some experts now recognize that these drinks do contribute to rehydration. However, they warn that beverages (over 10% alcohol as a Kiwi wine is) the opposite effect on net loss and rehydration fluids.

When was the lastAdd a pinch of salt?

The addition of salt (sodium), to stimulate the drinks will be how quickly you absorb carbohydrates. Since you lose when you sweat salt, if you drink only pure water when you urinate, you piss water and nothing else. This can lead to a reduction in salinity, what do you mean spasms and could be easily exhausted.

To avoid this, try a pinch of salt to water (most sports drinks contain, even in small quantities) and / or make sure you drink waterwith food.

What happened to you when you train in a summer in New Zealand?

If you exercise, your body stops cooling by evaporation of water from the skin with sweat, so it is necessary to fill avoid this drying. When it gets colder, young people often grow 2-3% with a reduction in body weight of water without affecting our physical form. But when it is hot, the water leak usually means that we do worse, and we can ill for someType of heat illness. Studies show that could also go through the loss of 5% of our body weight in water, leading to a 30% decrease in performance. Studies also show that maintaining good levels of hydration before and during exercise improves performance.