Water is perhaps the most essential of nature’s gifts to us. While we are aware of the fact that water helps eliminate waste materials from the body, it has numerous other functions that we overlook. With the numerous benefits to be had from drinking water, I thought it would do well to take a look at some of them. Drinking water can cure many health conditions like headaches, hypertension, backaches, ulcers, asthma and even morning sickness.

Water is essential for transporting nutrients all over the body and also for washing toxins out of the body. It’s like giving your insides a shower to clean away all waste materials. Drinking plenty of water means you won’t leave a single cell in your body unwashed and dirty. We’re all familiar with the term “beauty comes from within” and if we’ve got clean insides you can understand how beautiful the outsides will be.

Washing Away the Sins of Indulgence!

As a result of cleansing our body internally, urine formation and excretion is increased, this keeps you safe from infection and formation of kidney and gall stones.

• You can’t honestly suppose bacteria will be able to survive a flood in the digestive tract–well neither will urea the key agent responsible for kidney stones.
• Accumulation of toxins can often cause headaches; guess who your best friend is at times like this? Yup, water! Water cleanses your bloodstream keeping you safe from a host of serious problems.
• While toxins may seem innocent in the short term, they can affect arteries of the heart and brain causing early onset of arteriosclerosis.
• Water also prevents build up of uric acid in the tissues which can cause rheumatism and uric stones in the urinary tract.
• Uric acid can also cause platelets to thicken and clump together which can result in thrombosis. Imagine that something so drastic can be averted with adequate regular water intake. These are serious health concerns that can be prevented with healthy water habits.
• If you are aiming for healthy, younger-looking skin, treat yourself to plenty of water.  It causes sweating which opens up pores and throws out epithelial cells and dangerous bacteria.
• If you’re suffering form high fever drinking plenty of water will cause you to perspire and bring your temperature down while preventing dehydration.
• Plenty of water also keeps your bowel movements regular and stops stools from hardening.
• Dehydration also causes excessive production of histamines–the main cause of asthma. Drinking plenty of water keeps histamine production low and saves you from asthmatic attacks, as well as other less-drastic immune responses such as itchy eyes.
• Did you know that adequate hydration can even cure some cases of dry-eye? This is a plague for mature people, so any possible source of relief will come as good news.

So How Should You Take Your Water?

Drinking around a glass of water every hour is much better than drinking ten glasses after a long period of no water at all. And while we’re on the subject, the idea that you only need 8 glasses of water a day is probably not accurate–our body functions better with considerably more that that. Try around 3 liters of water a day and see if your health issues don’t improve.

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Perfect Source of Omega 3s

The benefits of Flax have been known to man for centuries. The main reason for its popularity today is the huge payload of Omega 3 fatty acids. But it also contains a wide range of other valuable nutrients, including hard-to-find amino acids. Joanna Budwig was first to use it as a cure for cancer mixed with cottage cheese or yogurt. But you shouldn’t wait until you’re ill to use this nutritional tool for health.

How Flax Seed Can Help You

Just a few of the health issues you can expect to improve with adequate use of Flax seeds includes:

• Normalizes high blood pressure
• Improved regulation of blood sugar levels
• Eases inflammatory tissue conditions, including arthritis
• Alleviation of dry skin, eczema and psoriasis
• Enhanced immune system
• Increased metabolic rate with a positive impact on weight management
• Helps with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• Natural, gentle laxative
• Helps with dry-eye which is a difficult condition to treat
• Healthy skin
• Increased energy, vitality, and stamina
• Increased sense of calmness under stress
• Reduced threat of blood clots
• Protection against cancers, particularly hormone sensitive cancers such as breast and prostate
• Lowered blood cholesterol levels
• Protects against heart disease
• Healthy hair and nails