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Water and the Body

Lindsey Frazier

SCI 241

Water 1
Water is a vital part of our body’s needs. It is a well known fact that a person may survive for a few weeks without food, but only a few days without water! The average adults body is 60% water weight and infants is even more at 70%. It is recommended that an adult male should drink 3.7 liters of water a day and women should drink 2.7 liters!
So why is water so important to our bodies? Bones are 25% water and muscles are 75% water! Water is also in our tears which help to lubricate our eyes and wash away dirt, saliva helps us to eat and keeps our mouths from drying out, and water in the amniotic sac helps to protect the unborn. Chapter 9 says water is held in cells and other body compartments by proteins, sodium, potassium, chloride, and other small molecules that are dissolved by water. Water is stored as intracellular fluid which is inside the cell and outside the cells called extracellular fluid. The......

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