'Water an essential nutrient for the body and its positive role against fat loss' A little known secret for accelerating fat loss, increasing your performance and improving your physique I'd like to let you in on a little known secret for increasing your performance and improving your physique that is so painfully obvious it's almost embarrassing! Actually it's not really even a "secret." It would be more correct to say it’s a "known but ignored fact." When I tell you what this secret is, you'll kick yourself for not realizing it sooner. This "secret" I'm talking about is drinking the correct amount of H2O every single day. That’s it - plain old water! If you’re even slightly dehydrated (and most people are walking around in a constant state of semi-dehydration), your results and performance will be poor instantly. Everyone knows it, but what people know they should do and what they actually do are often two completely different things. Everyone has heard the maxim, "Drink at least 8 - 10 glasses of water a day.” That’s a good starting point, but most of the time they don't do it. Now that you have a clear-cut goal and you’ve made the commitment to become the best you can be, it’s time to add another new daily habit to your list – the habit of drinking plenty of pure H20 every day. Every physiological process in your body depends on water Because there’s so much attention placed today on complex issues such as protein and carbohydrate intake, essential fatty acids, macronutrient ratios and high performance supplements, it's no wonder that something as simple as water could be so easily taken for granted. The importance of drinking plenty of water and keeping adequately hydrated cannot be emphasized enough. Water is the most abundant nutrient in your body. Approximately 60-70% of your body is comprised of water. Your blood is made up of about 90% water. Your muscles are about 70% water. Even your bones are 20% water. Without adequate water, nothing in your body could function properly. Every physiological process in your body takes place in water or depends on water. Water is necessary to regulate your body’s temperature, to transport nutrients, and to build tissues. Water is required for joint lubrication, digestion, circulation, respiration, absorption, and excretion. Without water, you would die in a matter of days. Undoubtedly water is “the most important nutrient in the body.” Dehydration decreases endurance, strength and physical performance As you become dehydrated, your body's core temperature increases. This adversely affects your cardiovascular function and reduces your capacity for physical work. Even a small decrease in your body's hydration level can decrease your performance. Studies have shown that even mild dehydration of 3% of body weight can decrease contractile strength by 10%. When 4% - 5% or more of total weight is lost in water, muscular and aerobic endurance can decrease by 20% to 30%. If more than 10-12% of the body’s weight as water is lost, you could die. Higher protein diets have a diuretic effect and require extra attention to drinking water Because this program tends to be moderate to high in protein, drinking plenty of water is especially important. The processing of protein foods generates metabolic waste products that must be flushed out and removed by the kidneys. Without adequate water, the kidneys can’t remove these wastes properly. It is a myth that high protein diets cause kidney damage. A high protein diet is not harmful to healthy kidneys -- as long as plenty of water is consumed every day. Water is essential to the fat burning process Not only do you need plenty of water for good health, you also need water to lose fat. Here’s why: One of the important functions of your kidneys is to eliminate toxic waste products from your body through the urine. When you’re dehydrated, the body’s instinctive reaction is to hold on to whatever water it does have in order to survive. When this water retention occurs, the waste products in the body aren’t flushed out, and build up in your system. At this point, the liver will try to help out with the overload. The problem is, when the liver helps out during fluid retention, it can’t do its own jobs as efficiently, one of which is burning stored body fat for energy. The result is that your body may not be able to burn body fat as efficiently as normal. Water is the most valuable aspect of a healthy diet. It’s responsible for thousands biochemical reactions at the cellular level inside the body and actually it’s an anti-catabolic substance cause dehydration when it happens is extremely catabolic to muscle tissue. Last but not least according to some latest researches, water has a thermogenic effect. In fact by drinking ice-cold water metabolism is boosted by 30% to bring the temperature up to normal body temperature. Drinking lots of water does not make you retain water Many people avoid drinking a lot of water because they think it will make them retain fluid and become bloated. Actually, the opposite is true. When you’re dehydrated, your body senses the lack of adequate water and holds on to all the water that’s currently in the body. When you consume adequate amounts of water, your body senses that you’re no longer dehydrated, and therefore your kidneys flush the water out of your system like they normally do, resulting in less water retention.