Many people advise that you make sure you are getting plenty of
"fluids" yet neglect to tell you what KIND of fluids you should be
having. Some fluids will harm you, especially if you are dealing with
any particular health problem. Water is ALWAYS the fluid of choice. The
majority of your body is water, without it everything goes awry. Soda's
and all forms of caffeine are an ABSOLUTE NO NO! Caffeine
and sugar will tend to dehydrate you, make your blood sticky, and bind
with the vitamins and minerals preventing you from absorbing them, not
to mention messing up your ph balance. In some cases, perhaps as in
toxemia and anemia, even fruit sugars should be avoided for a time until
the body can improve it's general nutrition levels and function and
rebuild to be able to handle them. If juice is consumed at all it should
be home squeezed with no sugar added; processed juices from the store
usually have many harmful things besides added sugar. Even fruit sugars
can feed yeast, the waste from which will add the the toxic levels in in
body and also make it more susceptible to bacterial type infections and
immune system incompetency.
Due to the fact that many
places add chlorine and/or fluoride to their water, filters are a MUST.
The only downside of this is that they can remove some of the good
things- i.e. minerals- from the water as well, which in turn can affect
your ph balance and prevent your body from being able to absorb the
water. If you are drinking a lot but still not getting enough fluids, or
have problems with water retention/swelling, try adding lemon juice to
your water. This alters the ph balance enough for you body to be able to
absorb the water; that way you are not drinking ridiculous quantities
of water and still "dying of dehydration" as it were.
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