“Kids should be drinking water every day because water is the healthiest,”
Asher Rosinger,
PhD, Director of the Water, Health and Nutrition Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University in State College.
It is scientifically proven that mild dehydration or consumption of unclean water leads to symptoms like fatigue, headache, and poor endurance. Longer term, chronic lack of fluids affects the kidneys, the liver, the brain. It may lead to constipation, which can be very problematic. The recommendation for parents is that water should be the first beverage offered for their kids, to stay healthy, energetic, and happy. Clean water can also keep a child at a healthy weight.
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“It should be easy to go get a drink of water when you want one because tap water should be readily available and clean, but that’s not always the case,”
Erica L. Kenney
ScD, Assistant Professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health