Harish Palaniappan's

Are you drinking enough water, or some kind of energy fluids to hydrate your body??

Water is an important source of energy for the body, be it human body or your pet dog. Though not given so much importance in gyms and excercises by normal people. only sports people understand the importance of water and the banana. Yes, banana is one of the fruits that convert into energy usable by the body the fastest.

Everyday we lose water from our body through sweat and perspiration, through urine, and by even breathing. And this loss has to be replaced. When not regularly replaced, the body makes you feel thirsty.

How much water?
Depends on your weight, your energy usage in physical activity over the day, and importantly the temperatures you put your body through because more temperature means more loss of water through sweat and perspiration. So, in summer you will drink atleast 40% more water than in winter.

If you thought you are drinking the right quantity of water, and if you never checked that against some standards, then here is a website that helps calculate your daily hydration(or water) needs.

You can key in details like weight, workout you do, age, and get to know how much water you should be drinking, atleast ideally...and if you are not drinking other energy fluids

Hydration Calculator

You can find more information on fluids and energy and why people drink special fluids like gatorade etc., why water itself may not be enough, through 'make every drop count'.

I found the above links accidentally going through, the coca-cola website. The website has an interestingly squeezed world map out of a bottle thing on its website...artistically a good concept for their homepage. I would have liked to see it in their print adverts... hey, I just remembered, have these cola companies stopped advertising on the print media...its been a long time.