Health is Built on Pure water – the Fluid of Choice
People become ‘stuck in a rut’ in what they drink in a day. Are you one of them? Many have their favourite drinks, and drink it over and over. It is boring to me!
Do you know that fluids presents us with a marvellous opportunity to build our health? There is one fluid you require, more than any other…
6-Fluid-of-ChoiceIt’s true… you need plenty of pure water everyday.
If you are missing out on this you are robbing your body of one of its most important requirements.
When you look at the many jobs a droplet of water carries out in the body, doesn’t it make you think you need to increase your intake? It certainly does for me!
Have you been mistaking your body’s ‘thirst cue’ for a ‘food cue’? Oh this is a real trap that many fall headlong into. Is that you?
Do we hear our body’s cue for water?
How many times have you wandered into the kitchen feeling like you want something to eat? What could it be? You find a snack and enjoy it but a short time later you feel much the same way again! So, back to the kitchen for another snack!
The strange thing is this… all the time your body has been trying to tell you that it’s thirsty! Yes, it wants some more water to help it carry out the many functions that need to be taken care of.
This is one of the most important ‘cue’s’ we need to learn to listen for. Somewhere along the way we ignored the cue and transferred it in our thinking into food.
Today, yes… this very day, I would like you to begin to pick up on this cue for what it really is. To help you, as I’ve said before, drink a glass of water every time before you eat any food. That is the best way to retrain yourself in listening to your body speak to you. It speaks… you need to learn to listen.
HI Marilyn, I was reading about “water” in your Wellness Solutions course and wondered about Seltzer water or tonic water.
Do you have any thoughts on those? I usually get those that have a little flavor but no sugar… sometimes tehy have a little caffeine in them.
Hi Mary… I would hesitate to count them in as water because of the type of additives. I would use them ‘for a change’.
Learning to add flavours to good quality water is very special… I have a rage of pure essential oils which means each bottle of water I drink has the potential of tasting different… and so lovely, together with a great many health benefits.
I have just one small glass of tonic Water per day to take our home-made quinine/HCQ but that’s all.
During the summer I will make a small bottle or two with my own soda stream but never add the bought flavours that are supposed to come with it.
When I looked on the cans.. I could not find any ingredients except carbonated water and ‘natural flavor” I couldn’t find other additives listed.. are they hidden? Does that mean they still have other things in them? (I have the bubly brand and Aha brands, polar spring for plain..I was trying to be ‘healthy’)
I am also wondering if they are harmful for acid reflux?
I do have essential oils for a diffuser (that I only rarely use) but have not thought of putting them in water or food.
I may try your HCQ recipe but I have to be careful with acid refllux.. my doctor stopped my gerd meds because of other problems.
Hi Mary… ‘Natural flavour’ is the same as everything else that the big food companies bring to the table… to give you an idea look at this:
https://www.purefoodcompany.com/what-are-natural-flavors/
If you were to ingest something like that on occasion it most probably won’t do too much harm, but every day… trouble looming!
If you suffer regularly from acid reflux but you continue to consume drinks of that nature, I think that would be part of your answer… definitely not the whole answer, but along the way.
In my course I give lots of ideas on what to flavour water with if you don’t enjoy the straight out taste. Of-course, it depends where your water comes from. If it’s straight out of the tap than I can quite understand your problem… horrible stuff isn’t it!
Now, please be very careful with the essential oils. Many are made but very few are safe to ingest. I use DoTerra and it states on the bottle if it can be ingested or not. If it doesn’t say, I wouldn’t.
I would love to know more about your gerd/acid reflex situation. I may be able to help you from a natural foods standpoint. Let me know.
ok good! Thanks! That is a really good article.. never knew that! I have a lot to change.. little by little .. I love your balance chart.. so helpful..
Yes that’s the way to do it… little by little. The changes need to be life changers… not just for now.
I’m glad you find the balance chart helpful… that’s cool!
Hi Marilyn – Just wondering your thoughts on this. I’ve read recently in my studies to avoid drinking a lot of water 30 minutes before a meal and up to 2 hours after as it dilutes our hydrochloric acid needed for digestion. I’m a big water drinker and would love to not worry with this. Thoughts?
You are quite right Lisa… but the clue comes with ‘a lot of water’. It’s fine to sip a glass of water throughout your meal as it often helps us to swallow our food. When you think of it, foods like cucumber, or even salads in general, contain quite some water and we don’t ever think we shouldn’t eat them. What about soup?
The problem, I believe, arises when we gulp down liquid with our meals. This is what tends to dilute the hydrochloric acid in our stomach.
As always, it comes down to balance… or the swing of the pendulum.
Online there are various thoughts on this subject (as there always is on everything) but trying to stick to hard and fast rules can be very difficult. What if you finished your meal an hour ago but feel really thirsty? Waiting another hour while being dehydrated would not be good.
Listen to your body. It knows.
Thanks, Marilyn Good advice!