what is more important to us than water and food to keep us alive?
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Hydration is More Important Than Food!
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Water. You can live off the fat reserves in your body for a while followed by the protein in the muscles. Because you have to make about half a litre of urine a day, you would dehydrate very rapidly. You only have to loose around 10% of you blood volume to make your heart work too hard and other organs in the body to start to shut down.
This is a particular problem for kids with diarrhoea especially in the developing world. The treatment is realy simple too, the use of salt solutions (a bit like sports drinks) is all it takes to keep them going.
You can survive only a few days without water before dying. You can last for a week or so without food. In that sense, water is probably a more immediate concern in the short term.
However, you certainly need both.Don’t get me wrong, both food and water are both very important. However, if you stop eating you will be able to fast for a while. Some people even do 30 days on just water with electrolytes! Stop drinking water, and you will only have a precious few days.
When you get dehydrated, you will notice more severe symptoms than when you are just hungry. Now we mentioned in another article how if your blood sugar is not stable then you may experience symptoms of hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.We often hear the idea that “you’re not thirsty, you’re hungry”. While its not always true, it is important to understand that often times when we eat uncontrollably, our body is actually crying out for more water and not more food.
