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20079 The importance of water to your health

Carrying around a water bottle is more common now than in the past when people didn’t have one with them everywhere they went. It would appear as though this is a good habit to get into especially as the weather starts getting warmer. Water is a major player; it constitutes approximately 80-85% of the make up of your body. Without it, you won’t last long.

It helps keep your body cool, eliminates the waste products produced by your body, and cleanses the pores in your skin. Normal living activities consistently use water while sweating and breathing, sometimes at a substantial rate. As a side note when this happens compensate for this loss as fast as possible to avoid any adverse side effects.

Thirst is not a good indicator of dehydration. By the time you realize that you’re thirsty you are already in the early stages of dehydration.

Water migrates into your cells faster than pop, tea, and even Gatorade. It’s called the universal solvent for your body because it enters the cells, rehydrates them, and then carries away the waste products that accrue with living an active life. Due to the pH, these products being more acidic than your body they aren’t as effective in promoting good health in the normally alkaline environment within your body.

A quick rule of thumb is to replace every pound lost with at least 16 ounces of water. Cold water seems to be the way to drink it. It tastes better, and at the same time, helps cool you off from the inside out.

This does not include pop, beer, coffee, distilled, or reverse osmosis (1) water but plain water unless you are a heavy or salty sweater. Distilled and reverse osmosis water removes much of the mineral content leaving you vulnerable to cramping. Additionally these two water sources tend to be on the acidic side of the scale with the attending consequences previously mentioned.

At the very basic level, the mitochondria in your body serve as little power plants inside your cells. Without water, electrolytes, and nutrients carried by water, they cannot work efficiently and eventually begin shutting down. Once this happens, your ability to function ceases.

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Reverse osmosis is sometimes referred to as ultrafiltration because it involves the movement of water through a membrane as shown in Figure 1. The membrane has microscopic openings that allow water molecules, but not larger compounds, to pass through. Some RO membranes also have an electrical charge that helps in rejecting some chemicals at the membrane surface.

Healthy gifts

Giving rewards both the giver and the recipient. Anyone who has ever delivered an unexpected gift to a friend well remembers his or her look of pleasure. Husbands take note of this and surprise your wife with one of her favorite flowers, a night out, or some other memorable activity that you know she likes to do. We can all use the points.

Gifts that encourage healthy habits and relationships grab the attention of the receiver. That person realizes how much you value their friendship. Healthy gift choices run the gamut from food to exercise and all the other ideas in between.

Food can be a good option when choosing a gift, as long as it’s healthy. Select high quality nutritious items that help protect the heart such as walnuts and almonds, green and white teas and in season fruits and vegetables. Pack them in a nice basket that can be used for something else afterwards and you have recycled and made a doubly valuable gift.

Pick out a few of your favorite food dishes, make up recipe cards, and mail them to your friends. Offer to help cook a meal on one of their workdays. Have it ready to go when they pop through the door.

Relaxation and exercise may sound like opposing concepts but in reality are, as the saying goes, they are actually two peas in a pod.

A month’s membership to the fitness center along with a personal trainer is an ideal present. Follow it up with a massage certificate and a soothing set of relaxation CD’s and you’ve got a match made in heaven. If your friend is hardcore into strength training then the Explosivelyfit strength training gym is the place to go. No frills, just an atmosphere and professional coaching that produce results.

On a more personal level, give a coupon for a months worth of daily walks, a fast run around the track or in the neighborhood with you as their companion. You could even offer to go biking with them on a weekly basis.

A subscription to a mutually favorite magazine fosters greater brain activity and increased mental sharpness on the part of the beneficiary.

Perhaps a membership to a garden club would be the ideal gift for a good friend.

Moderate exercise-what is it and will it benefit me.

Moderation in all things (1) generally means making a half hearted commitment to a goal. However, in some respects moderation can be a useful guide when it comes to exercising if you’ve been sedentary for a long time. This concept certainly applies to the current couch potato and all of the ex-jocks who at one time were fit for school sports but are now living in the past of what they used to be and do.

Starting out slowly has merits. It helps condition your body and mind to the exercise sessions on a regular and more importantly a consistent basis. Without the consistency of exercise, the benefits will not accrue. Needless to say, persistency of action counts.

Moving your body even moderately strenuously about thirty minutes a day can make amazing changes in your fat and lean muscle ratio, your mood, weight control and the ability to live independently on your own if your are elderly.

Walking briskly for thirty minutes or more daily can lead to profound health benefits. After your walk do some strength training exercises for ten to twenty minutes. In less than an hour each day, your body will transform itself into a new you. If an hour a day is too much then walk one day and strength train the next.

A healthy cardiovascular system forms the basis of an exercise program for the uninitiated. Without strong heart and lung functions, it is difficult to become stronger. You simply become too winded to continue. Get your heartbeat up into your personal heart rate target zone and keep it there for up to thirty minutes a session.

An easier way to determine if you are working out moderately is to be aware that you are working. Your heart should be beating faster than normal, you should be breathing faster than normal but still be able to carry on a conversation or at least complete a seven word sentence.

If thirty minutes is too long then split the time up into three ten minute sessions spread throughout the day.

Now is the time to stop wishing for better health and a leaner body. Wishing and hoping won’t cut it any longer. As Mark Twain once said, “There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason.” You have to start working out in order to reap the benefits.

Thirty minutes isn’t much is it? So what is your reason for not exercising? It can’t be a lack of time!