Open AccessWater and Human Health
Author(s) -
Nasim Karim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of bahria university medical and dental college
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9482
pISSN - 2220-7562
DOI - 10.51985/jbumdc2019064
Subject(s) - digestive tract , sweat , human health , human body , urine , body water , water metabolism , food science , physiology , biology , body weight , anatomy , medicine , environmental health , endocrinology
Water is an essential requirement of human body. It makes up about fifty to seventy five percent of the human body. We can live without food for many weeks but for water it is only days. Water is part and parcel of our body tissues such as fats, muscles, bones etc and is the basic component of fluids like blood, juices in the digestive tract, sweat and urine