Want to take a step in improving your health right now? Drink a glass of water. While you’re doing that, throw away all soda and juice in your fridge while you’re at it. Water is the only beverage you should be drinking, and you should be drinking it fairly often.

The amount of reasons you should drink water is quite long. After all, our planet and our bodies are full of it. Make a habit out of drinking a lot of water daily, and watch how much better you’ll start to feel. Here’s a bunch of benefits that water brings us:

Helps lose weight

If you’re serious about exercise, you should know that water helps to flush out the by-products of fatty breakdowns in our body. Not only that, but there’s a hierarchy of things that water is responsible in our bodies. You see, if there isn’t enough water to dillute the body’s waste products, kidney stones form (trust me, you NEVER want this. Ever.).

As the kidneys start to mess up, the liver steps up to the plate to help. As this whole drama unfolds, the liver gets stretched too thin and is unable to perform all of its important functions properly, putting fat burning in the back seat. If you want to prevent any of this from happening, you might want to take a trip to your kitchen or water fountain.

Flushes away waste products

As mentioned earlier, water flushes away waste products. That’s the purpose of the kidney actually. Kidneys flush out toxins such as lactic acid, uric acid and urea out of our bodies. Why is this important? These are the things that make you feel sick and sluggish. They can also hinder performance in the other systems in your body. Drinking water regularly keeps us toxin and pollution free, and makes us feel better.

Curbs hunger pangs

Half the time that you think that you’re hungry, it’s just you being thirsty. If you have the urge to eat something soon after you just had a meal, drink a nice glass of cold water. You’ll feel refreshed, rehydrated and just ready to do stuff.

Just tastes damn good

If I ever got lost somewhere and had one thing to drink for the rest of my life, I’d easily pick water. Not only because y’know, it’s water and you need it, but it tastes really fucking good. Honestly. Nothing in this world has the power to make you feel damned good instantly than a nice cold glass of water. I’m getting thirsty just thinking about it.

I drink water with pretty much every meal and I don’t think I can drink anything else. It’s just so awesome.