Without your daily fill of drinks life would not be as enjoyable, and health would detriorate rapidly. 'Drinks in your diet' is going to start with a series about health and the drinks in your diet, starting with 'Fluid Requirements'.
Did you know that 2-3 litres of water is lost from the body each day. In hot weather this can be more like 3.5 litres, and as much as 6-7 litres with exercise, and in some illnesses.
A minimum of about a litre is lost each day from the body. Water is evaporated out of the lungs and mouth through breathing, about 350ml diffuses out through the skin whether there is adequate water intake or not. Also, a minimum of 500ml of urine each day is expelled to rid the body of waste.
The main sources of water for the body is the fluid we drink and the food we eat. Humans also produce some water when fuel (glucose) is metabolised for energy.
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