Irritated? Reach for a glass of water!

Happy Earth Day, everyone! It’s April, full of showers because the Earth’s living things need water and that includes you! Because schedules can be very hectic in the 21^st century, people forget to drink enough water.  You don’t want that to be the case as the days get warmer. Now, there is an argument out there about whether people are predominantly dehydrated or not. However, many nutritionists, dietitians, doctors and others feel that most Americans are, indeed, dehydrated and you need to be hydrated for your cells to work efficiently. Your body is mostly water which gets depleted when you sweat , breathe, urinate, defecate, enter a dry environment, get sick, are exposed to toxins and forget to hydrate --- all those things that happen all the time! Everyone now knows that more water is needed when urine is yellow; but, you might also just need to drink some water when you feel irritable, tired or foggy because just a little dehydration can cause these effects.  Ah, having water at business meetings may be more important than we previously knew!

Yes, your body can get water out of non-water drinks; but, that’s going to require more processing than if you just drank the water in its more readily available form.  If you’re on the go, stay away from plastic water bottles that are not BPA (bisphenol-a) FREE because research suggests that this chemical is linked to cancer, diabetes and birth defects (some canned food linings have also contained BPA).

How much water do you need? It varies from person to person and is also related to whether one has a health challenge, is pregnant, in a warm climate or in athletic training. However, here are quick ways to get a baseline estimate of how many ounces you might need:

·         The standard 8 x 8 rule (eight 8-ounce glasses per day).

·         The Institute of Medicine’s Adequate Intake (AI)

o   for women (2.2 liters: about nine 8-ounce glasses)

o   for men (3 liters: about thirteen 8-ounce glasses)

Other factors affecting suggested water intake:

·         Exercise

o   less than an hour (add 13 – 20 extra ounces)

o   more than an hour (include drink with sodium)

·         Motherhood

o   pregnancy (ten 8-ounce glasses per day)

o   breastfeeding (thirteen 8-ounce glasses per day)

Happy Hydrating!

References:

Mayo Clinic Staff (2011). Water – How much should you drink per day? Nutrition & Healthy Eating, Mayo Clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle

Elkaim, Y. (2013). The truth about how much water you should really drink.  Eat + Run, US Health News. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run

CDC Statistics on your health

Their have been many studies done in the past few years that claim America is an unhealthy country. We have super-sized just about every bad food out there. Many of us have very sedimentary life styles. Our desk jobs, non-active retirement, poor nutrition and health issues have made us an unhealthy nation.

In the USA 75% of our health care cost goes towards chronic health conditions. There are many chronic health conditions brought on by poor nutrition, lack of exercise and low immune functions. There are many chronic ailments that can be corrected or improved just by making a few positive changes in our lifestyles.

At some point we must take responsibility for our health and healing process. I know change is hard for some people but, living  life with a chronic disease, having this disease rob YOU of quality of life, is far harder that change.



The CDC Statistics : 

In 2005, 133 million Americans – almost 1 out of every 2 adults – had at least one chronic illness.

 Obesity has become a major health concern. 1 in every 3 adults is obese and almost 1 in 5 youth between the ages of 6 and 19 is obese

Arthritis is the most common cause of disability, with nearly 19 million Americans reporting activity limitations.

Excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of death in the U.S., behind diet and physical activity and tobacco 

More than one-third of all adults do not meet recommendations for aerobic physical activity based on the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, and 23% report no leisure-time physical activity at all in the preceding month

7.1 million (9.5%) U.S. children have asthma 

In 2009, 211,731 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. 

40,676 cancer deaths occurred in the U.S. in 2009 

26.5 million (11.5%) adults have heart disease in the United States

597,689 annual deaths are due to heart disease in the U.S

These are just a few of the statistics facing our population. These are just a few of our nations health issues.

We must be Proactive about OUR HEALTH!

DISEASE IS EASIER TO PREVENT THAN IT IS TO CURE!

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Doctor Comments on Chemotherapy

From Health Freedom Aliance Reportwww.healingconcepts.info

According to Dr. John Diamond, M.D., “A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo’s supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin’s disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy.”

Dr. Glenn Warner, who died in 2000, was one of the most highly qualified cancer specialists in the United States. He used alternative treatments on his cancer patients with great success. On the treatment of cancer in this country he said: “We have a multi-billion dollar industry that is killing people, right and left, just for financial gain. Their idea of research is to see whether two doses of this poison is better than three doses of that poison.”

Dr. Alan C. Nixon, past president of the American Chemical Society writes, “As a chemist trained to interpret data, it is incomprehensible to me that physicians can ignore the clear evidence that chemotherapy does much, much more harm than good.” And according to Dr. Charles Mathe, French cancer specialist, “…if I contracted cancer, I would never go to a standard cancer treatment centre. Only cancer victims who live far from such centres have a chance.”

Dr. Allen Levin stated: “Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon, or lung cancers. This fact has been documented for over a decade, yet doctors still use chemotherapy for these tumors.” In his book, The Topic of Cancer: When the Killing Has to Stop, Dick Richards cites a number of autopsy studies which have shown that cancer patients actually died from conventional treatments before the tumor had a chance to kill them.