Water makes up more than half of the human body and is required for our cell systems to properly perform their necessary functions. Dehydration occurs when more water is lost than what is being taken in. Making sure we have the proper amount of fluids in our cells is vital to ensuring our bodies are able to properly perform their essentially necessary functions. Water acts like a cleanser, helping with the removal of harmful waste and possible deadly toxins. Our blood, which is made primarily
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Dehydration Marty Oliver SCI/241 Version 5 01/30/2012 Abstract I am writing a paper on the effects of dehydration. Included in this paper, I will be explaining the answer of why is water essential to health maintenance? What are the functions of water in the body? What happens to the body when it does not get the water it needs? I will also compare and contrast how different electrolytes-sodium, potassium, and chloride- function in the body. What effects might alcohol and caffeine
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reduce the risk of heat stress, maintain normal muscle function, and prevent performance decreases due to dehydration. In most cases during exercise, the rates of sweat loss are higher than the rate you can drink, so most athletes get into fluid deficit. Therefore, fluid guidelines promote drinking more fluid to reduce the deficit and potential performance detriments associated with dehydration. However, it is also important to acknowledge that it is possible to over-drink during exercise. Drinking
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Dehydration Amelia D. Sneed Axia College of University of Phoenix SCI/241 The Science of Nutrition Dr. Liam Conner 20 February 2011 Dehydration Water is a necessity to the body for many obvious reasons. Without water a human being would die within a couple of days. The human body is composed of nearly 70% of water; making water the most important element needed for the body to function, next to the oxygen needed to breathe. When the body has an excessive
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Our body is made up of 75 percent of water. So water is very important to our body to function properly. If a person does not drink enough water, vomit too much, or have too much diarrhea causes us to be dehydrated. Dehydration is when the amount of water leaving the body is greater than the amount of water being taken in. Water helps our body maintain fluid balance through our body. Having plenty of water in our body helps with; lubrication, base for saliva, surrounds the joints, helps prevent constipation
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Assignment: Dehydration Name: Dorein Pfeil Class: SCI/241 Instructor: Michele Lyons What is dehydration- well the book example tells us that it is when the body is lacking the water to keep the body cool and when that is depleted we then experience what is known as dehydration. But what
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organs in the body, for example the brain, kidneys, and heart cannot function properly if they are lacking enough water. Dehydration or excessive loss of water makes the body ‘feel’ uncomfortable and can be life threatening in some cases. After reaching an improved understanding of the magnitude water has with the body, the functions it supports and what transpires when dehydration occurs; an individual will make certain hydration is maintained. Every tissue in the body includes water to some point
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functions in our body, including regulating body temperature, aiding in food digestion, and flushing out sodium. It’s important to understand the effects of water on your body that way you can understand the signs, symptoms, and general effect that dehydration water has on the body. Every summer countless people end up in the hospital with signs of dehydration, most of those hospital visits could have been avoided with proper understanding of minerals and water. Minerals are important to the health
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throughout the body. It helps to remove waste from our bodies as well as to cushion joints, balance minerals and finally to maintain the proper fluid levels in the body. The levels of caffeine and alcohol that someone consumes can also greatly effect a persons hydration level. Studies done of caffeine show that blood flow to the kidneys increases. The study also shows that the body does not reabsorb calcium, magnesium, and sodium properly when larger amounts of caffeine are present. Caffeine
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de Dehydration Mary J House Sci 241 University of Phoenix August 12, 2012 Water. People really don’t think about water and the importance of it as much as they should. Water is the one thing that we must give our bodies enough of or we will shrivel away into nothingness and die. We can go for days on end without eating food and we will lose weight, but we will survive. This is not the case with water, we must have it in order to stay alive, we could not go many days
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