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7/16/2012

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healthy. well hydrated person. water molecule. wet. There are lots of ways to finish the sentence. How important is water?
  • Muscle consists of 75% water
  • Brain consists of 90% of water
  • Bone consists of 22% of water
  • Blood consists of 83% water                     
  • Every cell in your body needs water, head to toe, to function properly

Here are ten important benefits of drinking enough water

  1. Lose weight: Drinking water helps you lose weight because it flushes down the by-products of fat breakdown. Drinking water reduces hunger and it’s an effective appetite suppressant so you’ll eat less. Plus, water has zero calories.
  2. Natural Remedy for Headache: Helps to relieve headache and back pains due to dehydration. Although many reasons contribute to headache, dehydration is the common one.
  3. Look Younger with Healthier Skin: You’ll look younger when your skin is properly hydrated. Water helps to replenish skin tissues, moisturizes skin and increases skin elasticity.
  4. Better Exercise: Drinking water regulates your body temperature. That means you’ll feel more energetic when doing exercises. Water also helps to fuel your muscle.
  5. Helps in Digestion and Constipation: Drinking water raises your metabolism because it helps with digestion. Fiber and water goes hand in hand so that you can have your daily bowel movement.
  6. Less Cramps and Sprains: Proper hydration helps keep your joints and muscles lubricated, so you’ll less likely get cramps and sprains.
  7. Less Likely to Get Sick and Feel Healthy: Drinking plenty of water helps fight against flu and other ailments like kidney stones and heart attack. Water with lemon is used for ailments like respiratory disease, intestinal problems, rheumatism and arthritis etc. In another words one of the benefits of drinking water is that it can improve your immune system.
  8. Relieves Fatigue: Water is used by the body to help flush out toxins and waste products from the body. If your body lacks water, your heart, for instance, needs to work harder to pump out the oxygenated blood to all cells, so are the rest of the vital organs, your organs will be exhausted and so will you.
  9. Good Mood: Your body feels very good and that’s why you feel happy.
  10. Keep Spinal Discs Healthy. Intervertebral discs consist largely of water (at birth, discs are about eighty percent water, although this usually declines with age). Therefore, keeping the body well hydrated by drinking water regularly is important to nourish the spinal discs and help keep them healthy.

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DRINK HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES. Example: If I weigh 160 pounds I should drink 80 ounces a day.
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Fight the Flu!

3/25/2012

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_  “God heals and the doctor takes the fee.”

Benjamin Franklin

When was the last time you were sick? What were your symptoms? Runny nose, cough, sneezing, fever, cold sweats, vomiting, diarrhea? Unpleasant as those symptoms are, why do we have those symptoms?

If you are as smart as I think you are, then you probably responded with something like “so your body can get rid of what is causing the sickness.” Congratulations! You win a prize! Most medications we take are for our symptoms to make us feel better while the body heals. If you have a bacterial or viral infection, your body is going to fight it the best you can. Make sure your body has all the right tools to help it fight the sickness. Here are a few suggestions.

Zinc – A Conchrane review was conducted in Feb 2011 concluded: Zinc administered within 24 hours of onset of symptoms reduces the duration and severity of the common cold in healthy people. Give me some zinc!

Wash your hands- the average person touches their face three to five times every waking minute. So that means on the high side, subtracting eight hours for sleep, the average person is touching their face a whopping four thousand, eight hundred times a day! Think about it…how many times have you touched your face today? What did you touch prior to that? Money? A doorknob? Toilet lid? Lightswitch? A pen? Your keys? Someone else? You get the picture – germs get transmitted easily through your touch.

Get Adjusted! – There has been increase in evidence recently showing the positive effects of an adjustment on the immune system. Consider it an immune system booster! For a summary of the research I found this blog useful http://freespinalexam.com/blog/tag/immune-system/ In a Consumer Reports survey last year, chiropractic was the second most effective for treatments for cold, flu, bronchitis, and sinusitis with those who used it saying 47% saying it "helped a lot"!

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