by PIA
The body is 70-75 percent made up of water.
It aids in digestion, absorption, transport, and utilization of electrolytes and other nutrients. It also helps maintain body temperature and excretes waste products from the lungs, skin, and kidneys. Furthermore, it is considered as the most essential of all nutrients.
Our body needs to be sufficiently supplied with water to replace the loss of water in urine, sweat, perspiration, feces, as well as through other body processes that cannot be seen. Not supplying enough water in the body can affect bodily function and can lead to dehydration and also even to death. With this, it is just right to say that "water gives life" or without water there could be no life."
Drinking only when thirsty is not good. Fluid replacement should be a daily plan.
The daily fluid requirements will vary with the environmental conditions, clothing, intensity, and duration of exercise, and other activities.
Based on the 2000 Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos developed by a technical working group led by the Food and Nutrition Research
Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST), water or fluid requirement ranges from 10 milliliters per kilogram (ml/kg) of body weight for infants to 25 ml/kg body weight for adults which is about three glasses of fluids for infants and six to eight glasses for adults.
Fluids can also come from fruits, vegetables, and other beverages like fruit juices, fortified drinks and flavored sports drink, which provide additional vitamins, especially vitamin C.
For more information on food and nutrition, you may write or call: Dr. Mario V. Capanzana, Director, Food and Nutrition Research Institute, Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST), Gen. Santos Avenue, Bicutan, Taguig, Metro Manila; Tel/Fax No.: 837-2934, 837-3164; Trunk line: 837-2071 to 82, local 2296 or 2280; e-mail:
[email protected]; FNRI-DOST website: http//www.fnri.dost.gov.ph.
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