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About hydration

Minerals
waterplus contains low levels of essential minerals - including calcium, magnesium and zinc - which assist in hydration.

Antioxidants are vitamins that help to protect your body against harmful free radicals. Antioxidants can help neutralise free radicals before they get a chance to damage your body. waterplus provides 25% of your daily requirement for antioxidant vitamin C and 10% of your daily requirements for antioxidant vitamin E per bottle. waterplus is charged with seven vitamins to give your body a boost.

The B complex vitamins in waterplus (B1, B3, B5, B6 and B12) are involved in generating energy to help keep you on the go.

Transporting nutrients around the body and removing waste products.

When you become dehydrated your blood becomes thicker making it more difficult for your heart to circulate the blood. Your body has to work harder to transport much needed nutrients around the body and eliminate waste products. Research shows that for every litre of body fluid lost in sweat the heart has to beat about 8 beats per minute faster to compensate1;
 
Keeping your body cool.

Maintaining your body temperature is an important function of water. The body 'keeps its cool' by sweating. You can easily lose over one litre (4 glasses) of body fluid per hour during exercise2. In fact, some athletes have even been recorded to lose 2 to 3 litres per hour!3 Obviously it is vital that these fluids are replaced.
 

It has been found that being dehydrated by just a few percent of body weight limits the body's ability to perform at its best. At a loss of five percent of body weight through dehydration, your best exercise performance may only be about 70 percent of what you could achieve if fully hydrated4!

Also, people often have a poor sense of how well hydrated they truly are. When you begin to feel thirsty you may already be dehydrated. It is for this reason that it is important to consume plenty of fluids throughout the day. waterplus is an ideal solution as its great taste encourages you to drink more. The antioxidant vitamins (Vitamins C and E) help protect your body against harmful free radicals. Antioxidants can help neutralise free radicals before they get a chance to damage your body. waterplus provides 25% of your daily requirement for antioxidant vitamin C and 10% of your daily requirements for antioxidant vitamin E per bottle.

1. Coyle (1994). Fluid and carbohydrate replacement during exercise: how much and why? Sports Science Exchange. 7(3):Ed 50.

2. Rehrer & Bourke (1996). Sweat losses during various sports. Australian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics. 53:S13-16.

3. Maughan (2001). Fundamentals of sports nutrition: application to sports drinks. In: Maughan & Murray, Sports Drinks - Basic science and practical aspects (Eds). CRC Press: New York.

4. Saltin & Costill (1988). Fluid and electrolyte replacement during prolonged exercise. In Horton & Terjung, Exercise, nutrition and energy metabolism (Eds). MacMillan: New York.