Is Drinking Liquids With Meals Good or Bad?

The digestion process starts soon after the food enters the mouth, and you are chewing. The salivary glands start secreting saliva, which contains enzymes that break down foods.

Then, the food enters the stomach and combines with the digestive juices, forming a thick paste-like substance called chyme. Chyme enters the small intestine, which further breaks down food using digestive enzymes. All the essential nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream here.

Once all the nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream, the remaining wastes are excreted through stools.

1. Improves digestion: Helps move food easily in the digestive system and thus, helps break down food and absorb the nutrients in the bloodstream.
2. Helps lose weight: Can help you pause between bites, providing you time to check your hunger and fullness signals. This can help you avoid overeating and lose weight.
3. Prevents constipation, bloating, and indigestion: Eases the process of digestion and results in softer stools, alleviating constipation, bloating, and indigestion.

The side effects are:

• Can reduce appetite and cause insulin spikes just like high glycemic foods do
• The spike in insulin levels in the body may result in increased blood sugar levels
• Loss of appetite due to the fullness may result in acidity or worsening of chronic acidity

1. Lubricates your joints: Acts like a lubricant for your joints and bones. It hydrates the cartilage between your joints, making it easier to move.
2. Helps organs and cells work together properly: Plays an important role in the proper working of organs, from the cellular level to the organ system level, such as hair growth, wound healing, and hormone regulation.
3. Boost your energy levels: Helps ease the flow of blood and oxygen to various organs and boosts energy levels. Try drinking a big glass of water immediately after you wake up.
4. Regulates body temperature: Helps regulate the body temperature by adjusting internal body temperature to the external temperature in the surrounding.
5. Improves skin health: Skin is exposed to various toxins. Water flushes out toxins and helps maintain healthy skin.

• Immediately after you wake up, have water to hydrate your body after the overnight fast to get energized.
• Whenever you sweat, on hot sunny days, while using hot tubs, or during vigorous workouts, to help cool down your body and hydrate.
• Before and after your exercise to replace the amount of sweat released.
• When you are sick, hydrate yourself, especially in the case of high fever, vomiting, or diarrhea. Stay away from alcohol and caffeinated drinks which can make you dehydrated.
• During menstruation, water eases cramps.
• Before eating a meal and during meals, drink water to ease digestion and help lose weight.
• Fluid intake can relieve pain.