By Kieonne Jackson
· Through activities of daily living, sweating, exercise, diarrhea, the altitude and temperature.
Water is the most essential and abundant substance in the body. The human body is made up of 75% water and the brain is 85% water. The human body can go over a month without food, but only a few short days without water.
How Do You Get Dehydrated?
· Through activities of daily living, sweating, exercise, diarrhea, the altitude and temperature.
· Many people treat dehydration with soda, starving the body of what it needs.
· The average American consumes over 600 cans of soda per year.
· Caffeine causes the kidneys to secrete more water from the body than there is water in the beverage.
