Drinking your water?
One of the easiest ways to decrease empty calories in your diet is to replace diet sodas, juice, coffee, and alcohol with water.
Empty calories are calories that are not nutrient dense - they provide little or no protein, healthy fat, vitamins, or minerals to your body.
Here are 2 more reasons to stay hydrated:
According to an article published in "Health and Healing" in July 2003, staying properly hydrated can help keep your metabolism going. When you are dehydrated, your cellular functions slow down.
Drinking enough water keeps your metabolism high and may even increase it.
According to a study published in the "European Journal of Clinical Nutrition" in 2003, even mild dehydration can affect physical performance during exercise. Subjects who reduced their weight by 1 to 2 percent from lack of water, were slower, more fatigued and could not exercise for as long as subjects who had been properly hydrated.
Here are 5 simple steps to stay hydrated:
Now, stop what you’re doing and get a drink of water!
To your success,