WATER THE THEORY AND THE PRACTICE

Having managed to write a new blog every week for year 2024, in 2025 I hope to maintain the momentum but change emphasis.  2024 blogs focused largely on the here and now. 2025 will focus on me in the moment, living a Jeckel and Hyde existence on land and water

A page from my book "Muddy Brown Water" is currently being edited to refract the emphasis into the subject 'water'

I live on canals and more correctly I live on a boat which floats on water'.  Looking out at the surface whereon I float, it usually appears MUDDY and BROWN I am conjoined with nature and I live a simple life.  I eat simple food.  I do not drink the canal water.  Nor do I wash in it.  But I am happy to live on it and be borne by it. I observe. I record, I review. I report and I ask simple non judgemental questions.  Liquidity has no direct attachment to water which is a liquid.

Water is essential to most bodily functions. 

• The body has no way of storing water and needs fresh supplies every day
  
• Women should have about 2 litres (8 cups) of fluids a day, and men about 2.6 litres (10 cups).
• Dehydration can happen when the body’s fluids are low and can be life threatening.
  

Asking a simple question of the internet. "how much water per day is needed for healthy living?  Depends on who you read or who provides it. NHS site is almost useless for finding out about hydration. The Eatwell Guide recommends that people should aim to drink 6 to 8 cups or glasses of fluid a day. Water, lower-fat milk and sugar-free drinks, including tea and coffee, all count.  Interestingly the science does not support this contention.  My own investigations indicate that human body water circulation loops loses 2 to 5 litres a day mostly by evaporation but intake should be balanced by  a kidney subtraction of about 1/2 litre a day of clear and light yellow coloured urine.  Where about 300ml is expelled three times a day the human body has pretty ideal circulation. The web does not address that a good diet high in vegetables and indee almost all food is capable of providing nearly half the total needs

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