Benefits Of Drinking More Water
Clients at 180 Fitness in Gloucester, ON know I believe that drinking more water is good for both workouts and overall health. The body is about 60% water and blood, about 90%. When you become dehydrated, even mildly dehydrated, you lose energy, which can dramatically reduce the effectiveness of your workout. It’s also not good for your health or appearance. Even mild dehydration can lead to wrinkling.
Besides being tired, mild dehydration can affect the joints.
If you’ve ever worked out and felt sluggish, then drank some water and perked back up, you know that dehydration affects your energy, but did you know it also can cause achy joints? Staying hydrated is important for circulation and blood volume, which help your body recover more quickly, delivering nutrients to each cell. Dehydration increases inflammation and can contribute to joint pain, although it may not be the main problem. Unlike boosting your energy level, eliminating mild pain takes more than just drinking one glass of water, but staying hydrated throughout the day. Water lubricates the joints. Try increasing your water throughout the day and you may find joint pain is far less than it had been.
Your teeth will be healthier when you drink more water.
Water is necessary to develop saliva and keep your nose, mouth and eyes moist. It helps keep the mouth clean and delivers vitamins and minerals to keep dental decay and gum disease at bay. Drinking adequate amounts of water can help flush away acids and sugar from food and the bacteria that causes dental decay. Some of the bacteria water washes away creates odor, causing bad breath. Rather than grabbing a breath mint, grab a bottle of water to fight bad breath.
Your brain and digestive system depend on water.
Water not only cushions the brain, it’s involved in creating neurotransmitters and hormones. It also affects how the brain functions and its structure. Even mild dehydration can affect your reasoning process and how you think. Dehydration can also cause your digestive system to have problems. Not only does too little water cause constipation, it can lead to heartburn and stomach ulcers.
- Too often people grab for a soft drink when they’re thirsty. That adds extra calories and affects your health. A tall glass of water is best for weight control and overall health.
- Your blood will become thicker and more difficult to pump if you lack fluids. Drinking more water can help you maintain a normal blood pressure if the problem is dehydration.
- Kidney damage from kidney stones create by chronic mild dehydration can be a problem if you drink too little water. Mild dehydration can also make allergies and asthma worse.
- Drinking more water can help you lose weight. It can fill you up if consumed before a meal and lower your calorie intake. Sometimes, the body mistakes thirst for hunger and you eat calories you don’t need. Drinking more water can prevent that.
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Passing gas or flatulence and burping are two common occurrences. In fact everyone passes gas about 14 times a day and produce about 1 to 4 pints of gas. Passing gas is part of the body’s natural process to relieve ourselves from built up gasses in the system. Unfortunately, we can’t always choose where it happens. It can be embarrassing, especially when your in a large group that’s quiet. Excess gas can be your normal or suddenly occur, leaving you wonder why you’re more gassy than normal. Gas builds up in your body for several reasons, which include normal gas everyone has to some gas with lethal odors that have the potential to be weaponized.
If you’ve popped a multivitamin and thought you were good for the day and didn’t need to eat healthy, you’d be wrong. While even the most natural of multivitamins contain essential vitamins and minerals, they aren’t always processed by the human body or require certain phytonutrients, nutrients from plants, to boost their effectiveness. That’s why eating healthy and choosing food that is healthy is important. It’s also important that your diet contains a multitude of colorful vegetables and fruits for maximum benefit.
Most women who want to improve muscle tone worry that they’ll end up bulky, looking more like the Incredible Hulk, without the green. The bulky look doesn’t work for many men either, unless they want to enter body building competition. The good news is that you can tone up without bulking up and it’s relatively easy. If you’re working with a trainer, he or she will show you how to do that, but for the rest, here are some tips that will help.
There are a lot of health problems that can occur when you have a magnesium deficiency, some minor and others more serious. While severe magnesium deficiency is relatively rare, reported in less than 2% of the population, undiagnosed mild deficiency is far more prevalent, occurring in as much as 75% of the population. Deficiency can occur for a number of reasons. A bad diet is one, but some health problems that can actually make it more probable. People with celiac disease and chronic diarrhea are more prone to deficiencies. So are diabetics, alcoholics and people with HBS—hungry bone syndrome.
Not all carbs are bad carbs, nor are they all good carbs. That’s why going on a low carb diet requires you do more than just cut out all carbohydrates. Not only would that NOT make sense, it would be very unhealthy. With all the talk about low carb diets, let’s first identify exactly what a carb is and what a low carb diet entails. There are three macronutrient groups, protein, fat and carbohydrates. Carbohydrates—carbs—include both highly processed and unprocessed ones in three categories, sugars, starches and fiber. Carbs are fuel for the body and can be broken down to energy.
Having adequate protein is important, but can you have too much protein? How much is sensible and healthy? You need protein to maintain your muscle tissues. Protein is made of amino acids and digests back to its basic amino acid. Those are necessary for the creation of enzymes, act with the hormonal system, build connective tissue, provide energy and boost the immune system. The amino acids also help balance the fluid in your body, build tissue throughout the body and are important to the immune system. A number of factors go into that decision on how much protein you require.
Clients at 180 Fitness in Gloucester, ON, know that what you eat is as important as exercise to achieve good health. It’s one reason many consider holistic eating. Just what is holistic eating? It’s a belief that your body requires healthy whole foods to be at its best and that our bodies, mind and spirit are intertwined, each affecting the other. It considers a healthy diet as part of the whole person perspective. Each person has a specific need and the diet for each is unique, based on that need.
Your diet can play a huge role in whether you enjoy every day to its fullest or look at the world through cloudy lenses. A high sugar diet can contribute to depression, just as a diet low in Omega-3 fatty acids does. Spices and herbs fight depression, so they can be just as important for flavor as they are for your peace of mind. Many spices we use today were first used medicinally. Many were used for melancholia hundreds of years before they were used as spices.