5 Healthy Ways You Should Drink Water

For today’s modern, healthy lifestyle, let us pick some of the vital points from our ancient wisdom. The following 5 keys highlight how to drink water correctly, added with some tips for health.

1. In empty stomach early in the morning, consume around 500 to 650 ml of warm water. This keeps your internal organs active and turns them quite receptive for the day ahead. Moreover, warm water helps cleanse your colon in the morning, hence increasing the efficiency of the intestines to absorb bodily nutrients. And it also flushes and detoxifies your liver. Note that you should not drink or eat anything post 45 minutes you consume warm water in the morning. Additionally, drinking ‘warm’ is the healthiest way to drink water and even Japanese, Chinese, and our Indian Ayurveda suggest the same. Because drinking cold water will slow down the digestion process by shrinking your blood vessels.

2. Take a glass of lukewarm water, just 30 minutes before meal. This makes digestion better. You might have come across various suggestions and clinical recommendations on drinking water schedules before your meals; drinking excess water during meals can interfere in the action of digestive enzymes. So, consume it minimally and before the meals.

3. To reduce blood pressure, take 1 glass of water before taking a bath. Have you heard people (mostly old adults) complain that they fainted inside their bathrooms suddenly and hurt themselves badly? To avoid that instability in your BP, try this water drinking method.

4. 1 glass of lukewarm water must be consumed prior to 30 minutes of your sleep. This will help you retain energy level, helps hormones function optimally, and keeps the joints and bones relaxed and balanced; follow this method and you will get rejuvenated the next day morning since you gave the water sufficient time to replenish fully in every part of your body! As per ancient wisdom, water is a natural blood thinner and it increases blood circulation, hence avoiding problems such as stroke and heart attack.

5. Store water in silver or copper vessels and consume them for the best health. The reason is that silver vessels hold the power of removing any free radicals from your body, thus giving it a cool effect inside the intestines; and this is going to make the digestion process seamless. Further, copper is filled with many antibacterial properties, anti-cancer agents, and antioxidants, all to help boost your immune system.

Did you know that our ancestors lived for more years by drinking water stored in copper vessels? This is way better to try than your modern aqua-filtering counterparts!

Adding to the all said, you must drink around 3 to 3.7 liters of water every single day.

The 5 Benefits of Drinking More Water

As we noted before, excess water is bad. But just a little bit more can give you the best benefits possible. So, drinking more water is beneficial, as it:

• Protects your kidneys and helps prevent kidney stones.
• Activates and energizes the brain and related muscles.
• Balances the fluids of your body and controls added calories.
• Maintaining normal or optimal bowel functioning.
• Helps the skin look hydrated and glowing.

Special Note – If you have suffered kidney failure or heart failure, then please restrict your normal water intake level to 1 liter only.

Breakfast Demystified – All Breakfast Myths Clarified

The Breakfast Principle

 Breakfast literally refers to the notion of breaking the “fast”. Meaning, breaking your overnight fasting. Going back 200 years before, people mostly had their dinner at the time of sunset and would begin napping by 2 or 3 hours after the sunset.

People won’t be cooking or eating any further at night. As morning arrives, the previous night’s fast is broken after the 12 to 13 hours gap, hence the name “breakfast”. But today, this term has its intention and meaning.

We even eat even at 12 AM, 1 AM late night, and then again morning, between 8 AM to 10 AM. Now, there is only a minimum time gap of 8 to 10 hours, between our night and morning food. Sometimes, this gap goes even lesser. Therefore, we actually don’t have a proper “fasting time”, hence our morning meals do not imply what we referred to as breaking a “Fast”. This drastic lifestyle is what we are adhering to till date and is the primary contributor for various bodily ailments.

In a Nutshell

Earlier days, people used to have their fasting time between the night and morning meals, which would be more than 13 to 14 hours. This duration was notably therapeutic for the human body and helps in maintaining the optimum level in all our metabolic activities. Comparatively, today the same gap is only seen for 8-10 hours and fully cannot be deemed as a fasting time.

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Now to the part of breakfast myths, have you ever experienced anyone saying these to you anytime?

1. “Eat your breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”
2. Skipping your breakfast is not good for your health and body.
3. Your breakfast is the vital meal of your day as it boosts your overall metabolism and helps lose weight.

Well, the probability is high that these claims would have reached your ears. However, these are false claims and there is no solid scientific evidence to prove the same! Or no best dietician in Bangalore would suggest the same to anyone!

Yet, the reason behind we people bringing it to the limelight today lies in the promotional campaign activities of the late 19th century breakfast cereal companies. They branded their products (business) stating that breakfast is the most essential meal of our day. This was a marketing strategy, in which we individuals regrettably believed it deep.

Right Way of ‘Breaking the Fast’

By eating only carbohydrate-rich breakfast items such as choco flakes, idli, upma, rice, oats, dosa, corn flakes, muesli, and more such food articles are going to spike up our insulin levels. This ultimately in the long run is going to affect the body by causing insulin resistance and diabetes related concerns. This might even trigger weight gain and aggravate sugar in pre-diabetic patients.

What’s more to note here is that the sugar levels may start to crash post 3 to 4 hours of your meals, hence making you feel hungry soon. The only solution to balance your breakfast right is to take equal amounts of:

• • Fiber
  • Nutrients
  • Moderate proteins (preferably 25 to 30 grams).
  • And sufficient natural fats.

Simplytosay, if you want to have dosa or idli for your breakfast, then make sure you balance it with a vegetable sabji, sambhar, or similar side dish.

Skip Breakfast or Not?

The direct answer to the question on whether to skip the breakfast or not depends if you have voluntarily done it as a part of your fasting. In that sense, it is going to impact your body or health in the following said 3 ways:

1. Increase in Insulin sensitivity, that is eventually good to prevent weight gain or diabetes.
2. High perks guaranteed when you practice overnight fasting sustainably for more than 12 hours. You even cut down 30 minutes from your morning schedule.
3. No muscle loss or physical hampering is noted with people who perform regular workouts and other similar exercises.

So, the next time, when you have your breakfast, also include: 25 to 30 grams of proteins + plan your dinner the previous night itself [preferably 14 hours earlier your breakfast]. Hence, you can achieve a minimum fasting each day. Even the best dietician in Bangalore city would suggest this formula!

Recommended Sources of Good Protein

Sprouts – Tofu – Broccoli – Paneer – Nuts – Mushrooms – Eggs – Protein Shakes from authentic companies.

The above stated food considerations can be included in your breakfast regime and help you stay fully up to 2 or 3 PM. Additionally, if you wish to stay more productive each day, then this technique will work best for you.

So, Here’s Your Takeaway

 Let’s finally debunk some breakfast myths;

• Breakfast is not an important meal of your day, but lunch is.
• Consume light dinner, and before 7 PM.
• Not hungry? Then skip breakfast. But have a fixed time chart, if you are already on your intermittent fasting.
• Skipping or delaying your breakfast even beyond 11 AM to 12 PM is not dangerous.
• The actual danger is eating sugar-rich, carbs-filled breakfast.
• And if you want to have breakfast, then eat at least 30 grams of proteins too.