1. Water
Non-Caloric (0 Cal per gram)
Major Function: Essential to life.
– Regulate body temperature
– Transports Nutrients
– Shock Absorption
Your body is Mostly Water!
(40-60% of body weight)
Sources- Anything in diet counts
Juices, Veggies, Fruit, etc.
(Except Diuretics-things that make you
urininat(caffeine=coffee/pop)

2. How Much Water Do You Need?
There are a LOT of formulas…a lot
are good but the best way to know
you’re hydrated is to check your
urine.
IT SHOULD BE….
CLEAR (Close to water)
AND
COPIOUS (Urinating a lot)

3. Water…..
You can only live for about 3-4 Days with no
Water…
• 75% of Americans are chronically
dehydrated.
• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism
is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.
• Even MILD dehydration will slow down
one's metabolism as 3%.
• One glass of water will shut down midnight
hunger pangs for almost 100% of the
dieters studied in a University of
Washington study.
• Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime
fatigue.
• By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her
body has lost over 1 percent of its total
water amount.