Sports drinks are meant to replenish fluids and nutrients lost during exercise. Their combination of fluids, carbohydrates, sodium and potassium makes them an ideal during-and-after activity drink for people working out for more than an hour, or for less than an hour but very intensely. If your exercise level meets these levels, hydrate yourself wisely
Importance of Water in Our Bodies
85% of your brain is water. The human body is nearly 70% water. Waste filtered through our kidneys is dissolved in water. If we cannot have water, we will be poisoned. Each muscle in our body is nearly 80% water. Including your heart. DRINK WATER. Link to this post!
Heart Attack and Water
After being asked by someone, I asked my Doctor why people need to urinate so much at night time. Answer from my Cardiac Doctor Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc) seeks level with the
Pour on the Water!
You Need Water You need water. There are lots of recommendations out there that we don’t drink enough and that you ought to drink more. We patiently lug around our huge glasses of water and sip away all day long. Does it help you lose weight? Are you getting enough? Are American’s dehydrated? Does it
Drinking Too Little Water
A lot of people are walking around in a state of mild dehydration without realizing they are. Our thirst mechanism is poor to begin with; it does not kick in until one to two percent of your body weight is lost as fluid. Even slight dehydration – a loss of one to two percent of
Should You Break the Bottled Water Habit?
A new report throws cold water onto the notion that bottled water is safer – at a time when Americans are drinking twice as much bottled water as they did 10 years ago. The latest statistics show that Americans guzzled a grand total of nine billion gallons of bottled water last year. Contaminants in Bottled
Exercise and Hyponatremia
Over-hydrating (drinking too much) can lead to a condition called hyponatremia, which is serious and sometimes deadly. Hyponatremia is a metabolic condition in which there is not enough sodium (salt) in the body fluids outside the cells. Exercise-related hyponatremia is thought to be caused by ingesting too much liquid, both before and during exercise. Sodium
Water for Fitness and Fat Burning
Did you know that in water, that simple substance called H2O, you have a powerful tool that can increase your muscle contractile strength by 10 to 15 percent, and increase your capacity for prolonged aerobic exercise by 20 to 30 percent? It’s true. What’s more, in water we have a substance that is totally legal
Weight Loss Weapons
We’re about to share with you a powerful weight loss secret – the combination of fat burners and water. A lot of people beginning a diet decide to go the ‘jump start’ route and take fat burners that they rely on to help them knock those first few pounds off of their body. This is
The Wonders of Cheese
National Cheese Lover’s Day January 20 Delicious cheese, with all its wonderful variations and ways of using it; how does anyone cover all the wonders of cheese? I hale from Wisconsin…cheese “country” and could go on forever about cheese! One of it’s main nutritional factors is calcium, as most of us are aware. But a
