The last time you were at a restaurant, did you ask for lemon in your water?  If that restaurant was in Vestal, Endicott or Johnson City, it may be a habit because of the chemical taste in the water.  As it turns out, drinking a glass of water with lemon has some huge benefits when you are wiping the sleepy away from your eyes.

According to Living Traditionally, fresh lemon water would do your body a great deal of good, first thing in the morning as it "helps push out toxins and rejuvenate the cells" following a overnight sleep.  It also "regulates proper kidney and digestive tract functions."

The article lists 20 benefits of drinking lemon in your water; they include: reducing pain in joints and muscles, fighting infection, dissolves kidney and gallstones, it's know to fight depression and anxiety, helps with weight loss and could help to prevent cancer.  Drink it warm for additional health benefits.

It seems like an easy way to keep healthy in 2015.  Better get to the store soon as I understand the Binghamton area may have a run on lemons.  Better pick up a bag of this wonder-citrus today.

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