To my understanding, water has no nutritional value. It has nothing in it. It’s simply just water.
That said, why is it so crucial to life?
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about 60% of your body is water…
Single celled organisms evolved in water and when we left the ocean, we took the water with us (and salts)
Most chemical processes in our body either needs water or needs to be in water or uses water for dilution.
Water is excellent solvent, lubricant and suspension container.
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It’s like you were asking why are oxygen so special, no nutrinional value… just that we are basically chemical furnaces that uses oxygen for oxidation.
Or salt. almost all cells uses electrolytes.
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There are a lot of things we need to ingest for our bodies to be functional, we evolved this way. There are things that it is easier to eat than to manufacture ourselves. Like long chained aminoacids.
Nutrition and raw chaloric content is just one part of our daily intake… balanced diet is not a hoax and food contains much more things we need, other than energy
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