Health Benefit of Water

The health benefit of water is key to a healthier and longer life. Drinking water is important for:

• The elimination of toxins.
• Keeping your blood thin and flow well.
• Cellular and bodily functions such as digestion.
• Relieving constipation.
• Suppressing appetite, and
• Metabolizing stored fat, thus helps with weight loss.

Some quick facts:

• You can live 40 days without food, but only 3 without water.
• You can loose 50% of your glucose, body fat or protein and survive, but if you loose 20% water, you'll die of dehydration.
• Babies are 90% water, adults about 70%, elderly about 60%.

Most cooked food doesn't contain much water:

• Bread 30%,
• Butter 16%
• Cheese 40%
• Cereal 5%.

But raw vegetables have a lot:

• Cucumbers, celery and lettuce 95%.
• Broccoli, cabbage, carrots, peaches, strawberries 90%.

Signs of dehydration:

• Dark-colored, pungent urine.
• Allergies.
• Hard stool, constipation.
• Low energy and weakness.
• Dry mouth or lips.
• Dry skin.

So the quality of the fluids we drink is imperative to good health, and the health benefit of water is directly related to it's quality.

When you're on a raw food diet, you know the health benefit of water. Clean, pure, alkaline water, with the right pH and structure.

So clean, alkaline waters is best. This still leaves many options. Distilled water? Spring Water? Rain Water? A water filter? And then, not all experts agree.

Thebestofrawfood interviewed world's leading experts on raw food and clean water to find out what they found is the best water for consumption: David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, and Briant Clement.

In this video we asked David Wolfe - world's no 1 raw food teacher - what he believes is the best drinking water.

So David uses spring water. Other raw food experts - Gabriel Cousens and Brian Clement - did their own research. Do they agree with David? We asked them the same question. What is the best drinking water? To find if they agree you can watch the interviews with them below.

In this video Brian Clement, leader of the Hippocrates Health Institute in Florida explains to you what he believes is best: living water system and distilled water.

November 2008, Thebestofrawfood interviewed Gabriel Cousens and asked him how he prepares his water. He uses distilled water and reveals his secret to make this the best drinking water.

Given the pollution in the world, use distilled water. But distilled water by itself is aggressive and immature. To solve this you take a gallon of distilled water, add a pinch of salt or 12 drops of active ionic alkaline minerals, so that you get about 50 parts per million. This way you create H3O, the best water there is. With 50 parts per million, you don’t have the aggressive pulling out of minerals out of the body.

Then you structure your liquid by putting it out in the moonlight overnight. The moon structures water, not the sun. Then you bless it and you have good quality. Crystal energy from micro crystals is another alternative to structure it.

So first you heat the fluid and take out all the herbicides and pesticides, and destroy all the homeopathic pattern of the herbicides and pesticides. Then you restructure it with salt, crystal energy, moonlight and by blessing it.

We, in the Netherlands, are told that we have Europe's best drinking water from the tap. Unlike in the US, most people drink their water straight from the tap. No bottles, no purifiers.

I always distill my water. My daughter (6) and I wanted to see what's in it. Is it really necessary to purify our tap water?

I can tell you, that after today, my daughter refuses to drink any water that comes straight out of a tap.

To see what we found, watch this.

David drinks fresh spring water (or from glass), Brian uses a living water filter and Gabriel distilled water with special treatment. But all three experts, underscore the health benefit of water. Clean drinking water.

What should you do? Do as the experts do or if not possible you can buy spring water in glass. Don't be fooled by believing all bottled water is good though. 80% is crap and is just as bad or worse as when it comes from the tap! Evian, Poland Spring, Fuji and Panna are some brands I trust to get health benefit of water. Unfortunately they are not always available in glass...

Other options to get the health benefit of water is to buy a distiller, use a living water system, reverse osmosis or a special tap filter (i.e. of Pure Water).

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