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Crystal clear water! Water fills you up, has zero calories, and is absolutely essential to your health. Not to mention the fact that water makes you look great too, plumping out your skin and helping your eyes to sparkle.

For some reason people often forget to drink water, but it's extremely important, even if you never seem to be thirsty. If you wait until you're thirsty, you may already be dehydrated, and this can affect all the systems in your body. By drinking a glass of water before each meal, you'll find that you stave off hunger. In addition, take a bottle of water with you wherever you go.

Water flushes toxins from your system, and gives you clar and beautiful skin. In addition, drinking water before, during and after exercise sessions helps you to stay hydrated and alert. Drinking water can also reduce the chances that you'll get diseases like cancer and heart disease. And let's not forget one of the most important reasons of all to drink water. Water will help you to lose weight. Remember, it has absolutely zero no calories.

Let me give you some practical water drinking tips:

1. Drink at least five to eight glasses of water a day. If you're on a protein-rich diet like Atkins, you should drink even more water, because protein breakdown requires water ? if you eat a hamburger, the protein breakdown just from that can lead to dehydration.

2. Try drinking water before each meal, this helps you to feel satisfied with less food.

3. Make sure that when you exercise, you take along your bottle of water.

4. Think water's boring? Try dropping a slice of lemon or lime into your glass. Or, drop in a sprig of mint, or a slice of fresh ginger.

5. Form a habit. It will take a few weeks, but if you write yourself reminders for a few weeks, by about the fourth week you'll be drinking your water without thinking about it.