Why Dose Body Need Water?
About 60 per cent of the human body is water! If you could squeeze out a human being like a lemon, you would obtain about 50 liters of water. This water, which is not like ordinary water because of the substances it contains, is necessary to the life of the body. About a gallon of it is in the blood vessels and it kept circulating by the heart This blood water bathes all the cells of the body in a constant stream. The water also acts as a conductor of heat through the body. Even if you drink no water during the day, you take in about a liter of water from the solid foods you eat. So when you eat fruit, vegetables, bread, and meat, you are getting water because they are from 30 to 90 per cent water. In addition, the average person takes in about two liters of water as fluids. In the course of a day, about ten quarts of water pass back and forth inside the body between the various organs. For example, when you chew something and swallow it, you suck some saliva from the salivary glands a
