Drinking water is essential to life. It doesn’t matter if you’re a human, a companion animal, or a creature in the wild, you’ve got to consume water to survive.
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If you’ve ever enjoyed a cool, refreshing glass of natural spring water, you may have wondered about the water source and had questions like, “What is natural spring water?” and “How are natural springs formed?” and “Is natural spring water safe to drink?”
For many people, water from a drinking fountain comes with a healthy dose of nostalgia. They remember being a kid in school and slurping delightedly at the fountain’s cool, refreshing, arching stream after working up a good sweat on the playground, in gym class, or sports practice.
You have to go back several decades, but there was a time when neither bottled water nor water bottles existed. The closest thing was a canteen, and you never saw anyone carrying one of those except for on long hikes or camping trips. In those years, a drinking water fountain was like an oasis in the desert, and the first one to get to it was the king or queen of that territory until they decided to step aside and let others partake!
Today, we have multiple ways to get the water our body needs to stay properly hydrated. That being the case, should water fountains still be our go-to hydration source?
The human body is roughly 60% water. So, not surprisingly, there is water in the brain, just as in every other organ in the body. In fact, the percentage of the brain that is water is approximately 75%.
So, what happens to the water in brain tissue if we become dehydrated? The short answer is: Nothing good!
Here in Colorado, with our low humidity, dry skin is a common problem. That’s why many people make moisturizers a regular part of their skin care regimen. Whether it’s face moisturizers, hand lotion, or other products, they apply them frequently and work them in to reach lower layers of skin. And, of course, ensuring your skin is well-hydrated is essential wherever you are!
But there’s another—arguably better—way to keep from experiencing the discomfort of skin dehydration. It’s an approach that works from the inside out: drinking more water.
Adequate hydration is essential to good health, and drinking water is the best way to stay hydrated. But are there different advantages based on the water temperature? For example, are there unique benefits to drinking hot water or warm water? More research is needed to say for sure. But many people who study hydration—formally or informally—think drinking heated water may provide added benefits over cold or room temperature water.
Chlorine has been a hot topic as of late when discussing water quality. People are becoming more informed on water treatment processes and how they work. Much has been written and reported on concerning chlorine and its byproducts, as used to treat city water supplies. There also have been complaints that include a foul taste and odor. According to the Water Quality Association, "Numerous labels have been given to odors in water. Among the 20 or so recorded are cucumber, earthy, fishy, grassy, and sulfur." Lastly, there are also health concerns regarding elevated levels of chlorine in drinking water.
It goes without saying that for you to be healthy, your heart must be able to move blood (and the life-giving oxygen and nutrients it contains) to all parts of your body effectively. And that requires good vein health.
Water drinkers have so many water choices to choose from these days. From tap, filtered, distilled or spring water, many consumers may not fully understand all of the differences. In a previous blog, we went over these different water types for drinking. Here we will be focusing specifically on home water filtration systems compared to natural spring water.
Water is considered the ultimate sustainable resource because of the hydrological cycle that returns water to nature in the form of rainfall so that it can be used again and again.However,duringthatprocess,watercollectsbothnaturalandartificialimpurities.
Theterm"impurities"referstothingsinwaterotherthanH2Omolecules.Someofthesearenaturalandimprovewaterquality,likenaturallyoccurringmineralsfromrocksedimentsunderground.Otherimpuritiesarefrommanmadechemicalprocesses.
Unfortunately, it seems like our modern world has complicated the drinking water process. There is much discussion and debate about drinking water purity and impurities, but simply put, water coming from an uncontaminated natural spring water source is exactly how it should be: Nothing added, nothing removed.
