As a student, or even as a teacher or professor, you are not always able to eat and drink healthily. Class times fall at odd hours. All-nighters and revising inside artificially lit libraries or halls of residences aren’t ideal for the fitness conscious student. However, there are easy ways of making your life healthier (and therefore, happier we hope) if you take a few simple steps and the Get-Fit-At-Home team is here to help.

This week’s first step is to drink more water

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Most students, cramming to cover that all-important topic for their final exam, leave themselves dehydrated. They don’t have a bottle of water at hand at their desks. It’s a simple fact of life that hours of study leave the body and mind weaker than usual. Water makes up 80 per cent of your brain, so no wonder it hurts that much more when you study AND don’t drink enough water.

Don’t believe that tea is a replacement for water. It’s not. Both coffee and tea are diuretics and therefore take water from the body’s systems. Sodas, due to their high levels of sugar, mean that they take water away from the body in order to digest the sugars. And we all know about alcohol… any hangover is partially caused by dehydration – lack of water.

Even after a workout, water can be the best to drink. Your body absorbs water faster if you are drinking just pure water after a workout. So, you can never go wrong in rehydrating your body post workout with just plain water.