Recipe for Health
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“Cool Drink of Water”
This summer is a scorcher. Shade and a cool drink seemed mandatory just survive. Actually your survival does depend on you drinking water. Water is that important to you staying alive.
Did you know that you’re made up of 70-80% waster? In fact water is really important not just to keep us from shriveling up like a raisin but to keep the fluids in our bodies flowing freely. Dr. Chopra compared the body to a river which paints a clear picture of how we need to work with our bodies to achieve health. So can you clean a river by dumping lots of stuff into it? Nope… you need to put only what it needs and let the waste wash out all on its own. Also if you stop water from running into the river it dries up. So let’s think about a puddle after a rainstorm. At first it’s clear and clean with plenty of water. After it begins to dry then the mud begins to cloud the water and eventually it gets thick and dirty. If we fail to put water into our bodies the same thing happens to us. We get cracks in our skin and it starts to look all dry and withered. Pretty much the healthy flush of our skin is turning to mud. The body does this to protect the water we have for what it thinks are more important things like pumping blood, elimination of waste, breathing and other really important functions. The folks in the know say you need half of your bodyweight in Oz. per day and that’s if you are NOT ACTIVE! That’s right, NOT ACTIVE. If you increase activity go right ahead and bump up your intake to at least your bodyweight in Oz. Think about it you go out and cut the lawn and come back 4-8 pounds lighter. That’s all water weight you’ve just sweated out. Eight pounds is a gallon of water. I’ll say it another way, a gallon of water weighs eight pounds. If you are a athlete you can lose 15-20 pounds during your workouts (especially wrestlers whose favorite way to cut weight is by dumping water). So these athletes are really drying out their bodies. Here’s the rub. If you sweat out a gallon of water then you need to put it back, plus all the water you need for your normal activities (the whole pumping blood and eliminating waste thing). We use water to eliminate waste products from our bodies. So without water all that mud from the dried up puddle just clogs up the works. We normally sweat just to keep our skin moist, when we fog up glass with our breath that’s water coming out of our lungs, urination is a no brainier and for a bowel movement water is critical. So what’s the best source of water? Well its water. Everything that you put into the water, tea, coffee, soda and even sports drinks changes the property of the water you’re drinking. For you parents, a Popsicle is cool and kids like them but they are NOT a great source of water. It takes water to digest the sugary syrup and more yet to warm up the stuff so we can absorb it. I can hear you groaning but yes room temperature water is absorbed better than cold water. So make it a habit to ask for water and get your kids to drink water. We all need to drink water and keep the river flowing.
Dr. Nick Balovich – East Coast Clinic of Chiropractic
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