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Water Intake Calculator
A Few Simple Calculations to Assure You are Getting Enough Water/Salt Each Day
To better determine how much water you need each day, divide your body weight in half. The answer is the approximate number of water ounces you should drink daily. You should drink half of your body weight in ounces.
200 lb | 91 kg | 100 oz | 2.98 l | 12-13 caps | ¾ tsp |
180 lb | 82 kg | 90 oz | 2.55 l | 10-11 caps | ¾ tsp |
160 lb | 73 kg | 80 oz | 2.27 l | 9-10 caps | ½ tsp |
140 lb | 64 kg | 70 oz | 1.98 l | 8-9 caps | ½ tsp |
120 lb | 54 kg | 60 oz | 1.70 l | 7-8 caps | ¼ tsp |
100 lb | 45 kg | 50 oz | 1.41 l | 5-6 caps | ¼ tsp |
80 lb | 36 kg | 40 oz | 1.13 l | 4-5 caps | ¼ tsp |
1 cup = 237 ml. | 1 liter = 4-5 cups | 1 quart = 4 cups | 1 quart = 0.946 liter
Tablespoon = tsp
How Much Salt and How Do I Use It?
Maintain the Proper pH Level for Your Body by Balancing Your Salt/Water Intake
¼ tsp. per quart of water (4 cups) you drink daily. You can put the ¼ tsp. of sea salt in your water, or season your food with it, as it is suggested, or lick some off the palm of your hand, and then drink some water.
What is important is that you get the proper balance throughout the day. You can’t take all your salt in just two times a day, no more than you could do all your breathing in only two times a day. You cannot drink half of your water in one sitting and then the rest later that day and expect to be fully hydrated.
What is a Good Sea Salt?
It is Important to be Sure You Are Getting the Right Kind of Salt
Good quality of sea salt contains more than 80 trace minerals. Be careful when buying sea salt or Celtic Sea Salt. If it does not list minerals on the back, the odds are that you have just bought expensive, prettier packaged table salt. All salt came from the sea at one point. So it is legal for anyone to label their low grade salt as sea salt. Good Celtic Sea Salt is NOT white or dry.
Unrefined sea salt is what you should look for. It contains 98.0 % NaCl (sodium-chloride) and up to 2.0% other minerals (salts):
- Epsom salts and other Magnesium salts
- Calcium salts
- Potassium (Kalium) salts
- Manganese salts
- Phosphorus salts
- Iodine salts
Altogether, salt contains over 100 minerals composed of 80 chemical elements. The composition of crystals of ocean salt is so complicated that no laboratory in the world can produce it from its basic 80 chemical elements — nature is still a better chemist than people.
This salt has been used since beginning of life, by ocean plants, by animals and by human beings.
Avoid Refined salt (Table Salt), which is 99.9% NaCl (sodium-chloride). It almost always contains additives, like 0.01% of potassium-iodide (added to the salt to avoid iodine deficiency disease of thyroid gland), sugar (added to stabilize iodine, and as an anti-caking chemical), aluminum silicate.
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How does the water calculator work?
This tool can prove to be very useful in determining how much water you actually need to drink as it takes various factors in consideration.
As we all know, there are many contradictions when it comes to the subject of water and everyone seems to have a different opinion.
The common sense advice would be to follow your body and see what it requires but in the same time start with some guidelines that can reflect your state.
For instance, this water calculator asks you to provide your weight, in either English or metric and your level of activity and age. Within the activity level you can choose from Sedentary, Moderately active, Active and Highly active.
Once you press calculate you will be given the amount of water you need in various measurements so it includes the units you feel most comfortable with.
Example calculation:
For a female, aged 35, weighing 165 lbs and with a moderately active lifestyle, the daily water intake is of around 107.3 ounces or approximately 3.2 liters or 13.4 cups.
If she would become highly active and maintain her weight then she would probably require more water, around 132 ounces per day. You can calculate as many situations as you like by pressing calculate again.
Why is water intake so important?
Water is essential for the body to work properly. Daily water intake must be calculated according to the weight and lifestyle of each person as it is important that the body receives the right amount of fluids for his needs.
Meeting your daily water requirements will keep you away from dehydration, increase your performance and even take you on the way to a healthier, leaner body.
The total fluid intake consists of water, other beverages drunk and water from foods eaten. According to the Institute of Medicine, about 80 percent of the water you consume each day comes from water and beverages, and about 20 percent is derived from the foods.
When you know the daily water consumption, you can also calculate the hourly water requirement by dividing the amount obtained to the hours you are awake during day. For example an active 150 pound person that sleeps 8 hours per night should drink 8 oz water every hour.
How about children’s water intake?
The water calculator can even estimate how much water a child should drink. This is a sensible issue as a proper level of hydration helps the kid develop properly, maintain a healthy weight and good concentration levels.
This is why it is very important to keep track of the fluid intake of the child. Especially because the little ones don't always ask for water, by the time a toddler realizes he is thirsty he may already be mildly dehydrated.
A child's daily intake of fluids varies with age, weight and gender, temperature, activity levels and overall health condition.
What if it’s too little or too much?
Knowing exactly what your body wants is essential otherwise you can fall on either side. You might drink too little water and be prone to dehydration, with symptoms like headaches, fatigue, heartburn or lack of concentration.
Or you might have too much water and have a risk to develop hyponatremia or water intoxication that triggers cell ruptures in different parts of the body and symptoms like vomiting, headaches, confusion and later seizures and coma.
References
1) Montain SJ, Cheuvront SN, Carter R, Sawka MN. (2006) Human Water and Electrolyte Balance.
2 Sawka M, et al. Human water needs. Nutrition Reviews 2005;63:S30.
13 Dec, 2014