Dehydration Symptoms: 2 Yellow Alerts for You

There are many dehydration symptoms, but the top 2 are so common, you might ignore them on a regular basis.

It ’s not a good idea; here’s why.

1 — The first yellow alert really is yellow. I’m talking about the darker yellow you see in the urine when you’re becoming dehydrated.

Does this describe you?

Is this a regular occurrence?

2 — Feeling thirsty is a symptom of dehydration. Drink regularly before you feel thirsty.

If you wait, you’re already down in your need for water. Next, you’ll feel tired unless you address this.

If you want more energy and vitality, start with your drinking habits.

Each day, do you get enough water?

Have you been spreading it out so you are drinking all day?

A little tougher question maybe – is it water you’re drinking? Sugary drinks, coffee or even drinks with added salt aren’t going to replenish you.

Many of the sports drinks do have electrolytes, but are still not good for you.

Drink water and plenty of it.

Whatever water you like, but you don’t want the toxins and chlorine you’ll find in tap water.

The way you tell if you are drinking enough is that your urine is light yellow or clear.

And what is recommended?

It has been well established that you should drink half your body weight in ounces.

For example, 150 pound person needs 75 ounces.

And why spread it out?

When it’s especially hot or you’re active, you will need even more. You must replenish water as the body uses it to feel great.

It’s best to hydrate even before you begin a workout.

The second reason is the body works hard to maintain a delicate balance.

When you are dry, then drink a lot at once, you’re actually flooding the cells. Not much better for you than being too dry. Your body works more.

Another way you work yourself too much is by drinking during a meal.

This takes energy that could be used for other things.

Why is that?

The liquid in the meal dilutes the gastric juices that digest the food.

Digestion is the most energy consuming process you do every day as it is. You don’t want to make it harder.

It is not that hard to eat food by itself as long as you’re drinking throughout the day. Learn more regarding dehydration symptoms in this helpful article. Cindy Soto is the webmaster of Colon Cleanse with Detox Diet a website dedicated to providing helpful information for those wanting a life of health and vitality.

Five A Day – Making Kids Nutritional Programs Fun

Fat kids are hitting the headlines again.The British government is worrried about the growing number of five year olds (about 25%) who are already overweight. They claim that this could affect life expectancy if the trend is allowed to continue. Other experts say that this is an exaggeration and that these levels of obesity will NOT affect the mortality rate.

By discovering a nutritional health program for kids early on means they have the basis for a healthy lifestyle right into adulthood. If kids are involved in fun activities and learning fun facts about food, then this means they are on the right road in keeping to a nutritonal health program for the rest of their lives.

Kids are bombarded with food ads every year – in fact they see about 20,000 of them ! These food ads are not really into healthy nutritional programs as they are concerned with brainwashing kids and making money. Kids are hungry all the time, it seems. Most snack foods are loaded with trans fats, sugar and salt which is not exactly healthy. So much so that recent research shows that hyperactivity and ADHD in kids could be caused by these food additives and colourings.

Getting kids to help you in the litchen is a great way of involving them and making them aware of what they eat. Kids love to try cooking and have great fun in eating what they have prepared. Their spirit of adventure is greater than we think and if they follow our boring choices, then we only have ourselves to blame.

When parents are diffident about what they eat, kids beome very choosy. Parents need to exploit their kids’ curiosity about food and the best way to do this is to be really enthusiastic about what yu are eating. Then they will more than likely want to try it. As a family we should always eat together- research shows that teenagers who were on a healthy nutritional program had always eaten with the family.

Why do kids always choose the same old boring things on the kids’ menus? Fact is they are just repeating the same old routine and going for the fish fingers and chicken nuggets which they always have at home ! Again, being enthusiastic about food is a great way for parents to get them out of the rut. Another way is to not let them choose from the kids’ menu but to have somrthing with you from the normal menu – in this way they can be involved in the choice.

A study just published by the University of Minnesota found that when healthy and nutritional school lunches were served, there was no drop off in sales. Schools have to adjust in the training of staff and changing kitchens but these results are encouraging. They also try to serve a turkey low-fat hot dog instead of the traditional one and the kids like them.

Getting out your blender and using it for kids recipes is a great way of getting them into a healthy nutritional prrogram without them even knowing. As we all know, kids are not all that keen on fruit and vegetables but a lot of smoothie rcipes are really delicious and kids will go for them. These are way better than a bottle of soda.

About the Author: Robert William Locke

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Grocery Shopping With Health In Mind

Grocery shopping is something we all have to do, even though choosing the right foods can be very hard indeed, especially with the cost of living on the increase. To assist you with your healthy grocery shopping, the tips below can indeed help make things easier than ever before: Read more

Easy and Gentle Detoxification

Imagine having clearer skin, sparkling eyes, a sharper mind, being energy revitalized with a stronger immune system and feeling healthy inside out, these are the things that you can enjoy by undergoing a body detoxification program. Because when your mind is drained, your body aches and your energy levels are close to zero, a good way to revitalize is with a body detox. Read more

Herbal Therapy: Conquer Ailments and Conditions Naturally

Herbal therapy, also referred to as herbalism, is one of the oldest alternative healthcare methods known to us. Healing herbs are used in various therapies, cures and remedies for many human ailments and sicknesses. Herbal remedies are also used for various conditions in the animal kingdom i.e. herbs for cats and herbs for dogs.

Derived from plants, natural herbs are used for their medicinal value, aroma and spice content in the art of herbal therapy. The plants themselves are comprised of natural substances that interact with the human body in certain ways that are considered – healing and/or healthy. Herbal therapy allows natural herb plants to act as nutrients in improving organ and tissue conditions in order to rejuvenate, adjust or regain their normal functions.

For centuries people around the world have been using healing herbs to treat all kinds of conditions and diseases, as well as improving general health and well being. Currently, more than eighty percent of the worlds population use herbal therapy for one condition or another.

In recent years, the use of herbs for medicinal purposes has gained popularity, and have even become part of the conventional medicine arena. Herbs have been used over the years to treat depression, high blood pressure, cancer, nausea, joint pain, headaches, menopause, menstruation pains and thousands of other conditions.

Although ancient cultures used nothing but these natural herbal treatments for whatever ailments they had, while some of these plants are today considered beneficial to humans, many claims of this kind are yet to be proven scientifically.

Garlic is probably one of the best known so called ‘healing herbs‘ used for medicinal purposes through the ages as far back as the Egyptian Pharaohs. It’s said that garlic can help to lower cholesterol and high blood pressure and even has benefits where cancer is concerned – this would naturally be dependent on the patient and type of cancer – one would assume. It’s also said that onions and garlic are helpful herbs for diabetes. However, although recent research suggests that supplements of garlic extract could inhibit vascular ‘calc clogging’ in people with high blood cholesterol, this type of claim have little or no scientifically proven foundation as yet.

Herbs for Menopause: Hot flashes caused by menopause are in general prescribed with hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which it would seem is extremely counter productive since it’s said HRT increases the risk of developing breast cancer, blood clots, heart disease, dementia and strokes. Even so, the majority of medical doctors still recommend hormones rather than a natural herbal treatment, which in many cases are effective and believed to be safer in the long term than HRT.

Although hot flashes are not necessarily life threatening – yet they are very alarming, they often interfere with sleep, increase anxiety, cause frustration, sweating and mood swings. Some recommend having Motherwort on the bedside table to take during the night when experiencing hot flashes as it’s said to sooth and calm the nerves.

There is much to be learned about herbs and what they offer. Undoubtedly they have much to offer both animal and human alike. Herbal therapy is an amazing subject to read about and learn from and is certainly in many cases much better than taking a pill the doctor prescribed. If you have a garden or even just a balcony or indoor pots, try planting your own herbs – read up on the subject (there’s lots of it) and see what each herb has to offer. You’ll most likely become an avid fan and herbal hobbyist.

Discover more about the health benefits of natural herbs and herbal therapy – sign up for a home study course here at no charge. You’ll enjoy this course immensely – where everything about herbal remedies is explained in both text and video in a clear and fun way.

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