13-Moon Date: Moon 10 Day 4
Red Planetary Moon
If good health is our goal, we start with first analyzing the types of food we eat, then we must look towards our water intake. Clean, pure water is essential to life and to good health. Water is life. Our bodies are estimated to be about 60 to 70 percent water. Every system in your body depends on water. Water flushes toxins out of vital organs and carries nutrients to our cells. It’s generally not a good idea to use thirst alone as a guide for when to drink water. By the time we become thirsty, it is quite probable that we are already slightly dehydrated. Mild dehydration rarely results in lasting complications, as long as the fluid is replaced quickly, but overtime, constant dehydration can have a severe effect on our bodies. The digestion and metabolism of food typically gives us about 15% of our bodies water needs. (Examples of some foods that are over 90% water are: watermelons,cucumbers and green peppers.) The other 85% must then come from our liquid intake. Alcohol, soda and coffee are NOT adequate forms of ‘liquid intake’ as they are counter productive, causing actual dehydration. There is no substitute for pure clean water. Filtered water may be a better choice than tap water especially in large cities. My yoga teacher, Satanam Singh, would instruct us to drink about a gallon of water a day as a good estimate. Your water needs depend on many factors, including your health, your diet, how active you are and where you live. (Please note: some types of kidney, liver and adrenal diseases may impair excretion of water and require that you limit your fluid intake.) A good way to tell if you are drinking enough water is to take notice of your urine’s color. If your urine is a dark yellow or brownish in color, immediately drink more water as this typically would be a sign of dehydration. If your urine is clear or a very light yellow in color, then that is a good sign that you are drinking enough water to maintain good health. Keeping our bodies at an optimum level of health requires us to give our bodies enough water on a daily basis.
p.s. drink some water NOW. 
Affirm: All the cells of my body are renewing themselves constantly. I make good choices for my health, like drinking lots of pure water.
some interesting ideas about water:
http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm
http://www.karinya.com/water.htm
“DRINK DEEP eternal waters that are bleeding from the rock of Creation“
