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Along with helping your muscles and calorie intake, water helps to maintain the balance of your body fluids. The functions of our body fluids include absorption, transportation of nutrients, circulation and more.

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Also, water helps you to digest food faster after you eat a meal. Michael F. Picco, M.D., says "water softens stool, which helps prevent from constipation." While it is true that drinking anything, including sodas, can help in digestion of food, the sodas do not help as much as much as water because their acidic properties can make some digestion of proteins harder.

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Also, water is what helps wash the toxins out of our body, so if we do not drink enough water, the toxins can get trapped beneath our skin and cause breakouts. No studies have proven that sodas can cause acne, but they certainly do not help because they do not contain as much water in them as a bottle of water.

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Although drinking a soda every now and then is not bad for you, I hope that now, if you do not already, you will mainly pick water over sodas.

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As well as helping your muscles stay hydrated and healthier, water can also help control your calorie intake. Penn State researcher Barbara Rolls, PhD, says "if you choose water over a caloric beverage and/or eat water-rich foods that are healthier and more-filling, it can help you trim your calorie intake."

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Drinking sodas and tea can help your kidneys to be flushed out, but nutritionist/dietitian Ms. Swati Kapoor says that "phosphoric acid is closely linked with the development of kidney stones and strains the kidneys."

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Ever since I started only drinking water, I have noticed that my body has started to change and so has my health. I began to lose some weight, around 20 pounds as of now, I began to feel healthier and look healthier, and I began to feel more energized and not as tired all the time.

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For a 20 oz glass of coke, there are 240 calories, whereas with 20 oz of water, there are no calories. So, if you drink on average a glass of coke with every meal, then that is 720 calories a day from your drink that could be saved if you drink water instead.

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I chose this topic because for the last two to three months, my main drink intake has been water. Before that, I used to drink a lot of sweet tea and caffeinated drinks. But I slowly started to only want water, no caffeine or carbonation, just plain water.

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I hope that you can listen with an open mind about how water is the better drink for you and how it can help make you feel better than those other drinks.

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Imagine you have been outside working, maybe in a garden or doing yardwork. It is the middle of the summer, there is no breeze, and you are soaked in sweat. You go inside to grab something refreshing, something that will quench your thirst. What do you grab? Is it an ice-cold Coca-Cola? A glass of famous-southern sweet tea? Or, is it a tall glass of ice water?

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Like I said before, your skin is made up of around 64% water, so, you need a certain amount of water to help keep your skin looking healthy and hydrated. Atlanta dermatologist Kenneth Ellner, MD, says that "dehydration makes your skin look drier and more wrinkled, which can be improved with proper hydration."

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Not only does water help you feel better by helping your kidneys and digestive tract, it also helps your body feel better in other areas.

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Now I know that most of you in the audience drink Coke-Zero, Splenda Tea, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sweet Tea, and many other drinks. Some of those drinks are healthier than others, like Coke-Zero is healthier than Coke because it has zero calories, but making water your main drink intake could help you to begin to feel healthier and look healthier.

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One benefit to water is that it helps to keep your kidneys flushed out and helps to get rid of the toxins in your body. WebMD says that if your intake of fluids is adequate, your kidneys do an amazing job of cleansing and ridding your body of those toxins.

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One of the benefits from drinking water that will make you feel healthier is that water helps your kidneys and your digestive tract.

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Our bodies are made up of around 60% water, with our heart and brain being composed of around 73% water, our lungs at 83%, and our skin at around 64%. So, water plays a very important part in helping our body to function efficiently.

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So, at the beginning of the speech I asked you what drink you would grab, whether that drink would be coke, lemonade, tea, or water.

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So, even though the sodas can help get rid of the toxins in your kidneys from your body, they still hurt your kidneys because of their phosphoric acid, which makes water the better choice to drink for your kidneys.

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Sodas and other drinks can help a little because they have some water in them, but water is the best choice because it doesn't have all the extra things such as sugar and caffeine in it like sodas and tea do.

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Therefor, if you have a shortage of water in your body, it can affect you in a negative way after a while. Aside from water making you feel better, it can also help you to look better when you drink it.

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Today, we covered how water makes you feel healthier by helping your kidneys, digestive tract, body fluid balance, and muscles, while also covering how it makes you look better by helping your skin.

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Today, we will look at how the benefits of drinking water can make you feel better and look better.

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Water can make you look better because it helps to clear up your skin and keep it moisturized.

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Water helps make you feel better by energizing your muscles, helping your calorie intake, and maintaining the balance of body fluids.

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When working out, or just performing normal day activities, water helps keep your muscles from becoming fatigued so easily. "When muscle cells don't have adequate fluids, they don't work as well, and your performance can suffer", says WebMD.