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Hydrate to Lose Weight – Drinking Water & Its Relationship to Weight Loss
It all begins with water…
Water makes up 75% of the human body, so to say it is vital to health could be nothing short of an understatement. Drinking water is a necessity for maintaining health, but it helps those of us who are trying to lose weight or decrease fat in ways you may not have considered.
First of all, by drinking water before and during a meal, it makes you feel full sooner. If you feel full sooner, it can help you to stop eating sooner. Secondly, water can be mixed with low calorie concentrates and sipped throughout the day.
By adding flavorings (such as juice concentrate or green tea extract – link below) the water tastes more like food, which can also put off feelings of hunger and keep you feeling more satisfied between meals.
Finally, drinking lots of water helps you feel better while losing weight. When the body burns old fat deposits, it can encounter contaminants and chemicals stored within the fat. These contaminants can cause you to have flu-like symptoms. By drinking plenty of water throughout the day, you provide a vehicle to allow the body to assist in flushing out those contaminants.
So how do you drink more water? Like everything else related to losing weight or fat, discipline must be incorporated. Here are a few suggestions to help you drink more water each day: Read the rest of this entry »
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Does Drinking Rain Water Give You the Best Drinking Water?
Is drinking rain water a good option for you? It all depends on your circumstances and your possibilities.
While living in a small town in northeastern Congo, my wife and I collected all the rain water we could. The town water ran only sporadically and with low pressure. During the rainy season we had a long line of 50 gallon barrels lined up on one side of our huge porch, perhaps 10 barrels. They were fed off our huge aluminum roof and when one barrel filled the overflow would pour into the next barrel till all were full. We drank this water regularly, but only after we had boiled it and then filtered it.
From ancient times people recognized the only source of safe water to be from rain or from deep wells. As many as 4,000 years ago there were systems in ancient Palestine and Greece for collecting rain. Even the Romans, with their system of aqueducts, supplemented their water supply with individual cisterns and paved courtyards to collect rain water.
In fact, rain water represents one huge distillation process. Water evaporates from surface water, then condenses and rains as distilled water! Why then don’t we use rain water for drinking water more frequently? Read the rest of this entry »
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You Have a Right to Clean Drinking Water – But You Probably Don’t Have It
One of the most important factors in the health of any person is their diet, and diet includes water. Despite the fact that you ought to be drinking clean drinking water the majority of Americans aren’t.
Clean drinking water is essential for good health. Right now you may be reading about the Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe. Cholera and many other diseases can be spread by contaminated drinking water, and it’s essential that we drink the purest water to protect our health.
Just because there is no Cholera in the US doesn’t mean we have clean water. There is a multitude of contaminants in our drinking water, and although they won’t kill us as fast as Cholera, they can still, over time, add up to impact seriously on our health.
Consider this. I’m sure you know how serious it is to get lead into our bodies. None other than the EPA has stated that lead is the number one environmental health threat to our childrens health. Low levels of lead can cause serious problems for children including learning difficulties and behavioral problems and more.
That’s lead. In our drinking water. How could there possibly be lead in our water when we’re supposed to have world leading clean supplies?
Lead contaminating our water is an ongoing problem. Lead comes from many sources, but the most common sources are from our pipes. It is estimated that around 98% of households have lead in their pipes. That comes from lead lined pipes or soldered joints in our pipes which contain lead. Most lead actually enters our water somewhere in the house. Read the rest of this entry »
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