Water helps to maintain proper muscle tone by giving muscles their natural ability to contract and by preventing dehydration. It also helps to prevent the sagging skin that usually follows weight loss shrinking cells are buoyed by water, which plumps the skin and leaves it clear, healthy and resilient. Water helps rid the body of waste. During weight loss, the body has a lot more waste to get rid of all that metabolized fat must be shed. Again, adequate water helps flush out the waste.
Water can help relieve constipation.
When the body gets too little water, it siphons what it needs from internal sources. The colon is one primary source. But when a person drinks enough water, normal bowel functions usually returns. On the average, a person should drink eight 8-ounce glasses every day. That s about 2 quarts.