While drinking water is crucial to living soul, drinking it in the ethical posture leads to healthful living. When it comes to drinking water while standing, science explains why it is lethal and how it implicates our body system. When you are standing, your body and tissues are in a state of tension. This leads the water to rapidly flow down your body, causing a disturbance in the existing balance of fluids.
Judging from the appropriate research done on the aforesaid, I hereby list below, the mischiefs of the claimed facts.
1. It results in Arthritis
Taking water when standing can lead to the flow of water spews down rapidly through your body only to get accumulated in your joints. This is likely to lead you to develop arthritis in the later part of your life.
2. It causes stomach wall flooding
The normal state of the gastrointestinal tract may be negatively altered when the water taken while standing splashes on the wall of the stomach. This causes erosion of the tracts, and as well affects the digestive system.
3.It does not really quench your thirst
Knowing perfectly well, even if a full glass of water is drunk with a view to quenching your thirst, in the correct posture, it will do little to assuage your thirst. It is rather advisable to sit and take small sips of water to quench your thirst completely.
4. Causes Indigestion
Get to the know that your body and muscles are in a constant state of tension once the certain quantity of water taken adversely modifies the state. So, sitting down keeps them loosen up and allows the body to soak up the fluid at a much better pace along with other food items.
5. Affects The Way Your Kidney Functions
Drinking water while standing causes the inability of the cell of the kidney to reabsorb and filtrate water; the impurities tend to get retained in them and the bladder. This can cause urinary tract disorders, and in more serious cases can even lead to the kidneys suffering permanent damagee.
6.Causes Heartburn and Ulcers
Drinking water while standing puts a lot of pressure on the gullet when the water splashes and flows hard through it. Periodically, this inflicts damage to the pyloric sphincter, the joint between stomach and oesophagus. Owing to this, you may experience heartburn or a burning sensation due to the acids in the stomach flowing backwards.
7. It Does Not Let Your System Focus on Digesting Nutrients
Drinking water while standing causes inability of the cell of the kidney called Anti-Diuretic Hormone(ADH) to reabsorb water from the glomerular filtrate as the body system is unsettled to focus on reabsorbing the nutrients contained therein the water.
8. It degenerates and weakens the bone
Besides the aforementioned arthritis, taking water on a standing position weakens and degenerates your bone.
9. Standing and Drinking Water Actuates Wrong Responses to Your Nervous System
As standing causes a lot of tension in the body and the muscles, your nervous system goes into attention mode, making your body feel out of sync with nature.
It is wise to heed the age-old advice from our parents and elders and sit down while we quench our thirst. Apart from being able to get maximum benefits from drinking water, it also allows us to relax ourselves in our fast-paced lives.
HUSSEIN, Ismaheel Olalekan
RENARSA PRESS UI 