Bad mood? Drink water!

The habit of excited to offer a person a glass of water is completely justified scientifically, as the researchers found from the American University of Connecticut. Dehydration affects a person's mood swings and the ability to think clearly.

If you feel that you start to lose patience and go out of yourself, try to drink at least one glass of water. Did he really calm you, as moderate dehydration   a negative impact on a person's mood, reduces its energy level and ability to think clearly. So say US researchers.

"Even a slight dehydration Such as loss of 1, 5% of the normal water balance in the body, which occurs during the normal daily activities can affect our health, - said study co-author Harris Lieberman. - This is especially true for women, who are more vulnerable to the impact of side effects Dehydration ".

Tests have shown that these effects are in any case. You can do on a treadmill, but you can sit in one place. Meanwhile, the sensation of thirst is included in the body of water balance loss of 1-2%. By then dehydration is already beginning to produce its devastating effects on mood and emotions.

Scientists emphasize that maintaining the proper water balance is important for all people. And running a marathon, and sitting all day at the computer. In both cases, without the use of fluid loss of water balance at the end of the work may take up to 8%.

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