3 Ways To Drink More Water

After a little research it is apparent that nobody really knows where the saying that you need to drink 8 cups of water per day comes from. Some people trace it back to a study in the 1980's, and other people claim that doctors starting telling people that amount because it was a good goal, but didn't have any scientific research to back it up with.

Either way, the point is clear, water does wonders for your body, and your brain. Water is well known to cleanse your body of harmful chemicals through your intestines and also throughout your urine tract. Without proper water intake, our bodies break down very quickly, in a matter of days. Without food, however, some people can live for a week or two. That just shows how important water is to our bodies.

Here are 3 quick tips for taking in more water.

1. Always have water available.

I like to buy the 12 ounce bottles of water and keep them in the fridge. Whenever I go to the gym I grab a bottle. On my way out the door to work, I grab a bottle. Before a trip that will be 30 minutes or longer, I grab a bottle. When I watch a movie, I grab a bottle.

Whenever I am sitting watching TV or a movie, I will keep the bottle in my hand with the lid off. I take a lot of little sips until the bottle is gone. A great way of making sure you drink more water is to make sure it is easily accessible.

2. Keep it cold.

I don't know many people who like to drink room temperature water, I sure don't. If you keep your water cold, you will drink more. I make sure there is always ice in my freezer, this make it very easy to have a cold glass of water anytime.

3. Chose water in restaurants.

Whenever I go out to eat, I always drink water with some lemon. The lemon adds a little spunk to the taste and the water is always nice, cold and refreshing. After a short time you will stop craving your old drink of choice and will begin to appreciate the taste, or lack of taste, that water provides.

Give water a shot and your body will be thankful!

Truths and myths about milk

Milk and dairy products are another food group on which a lot of stories, and about which opinions are divided. On one hand, we argue that milk is a very good and healthy food, on the other hand, it is advisable to avoid it or even completely out of our diet. What are you doing here, why is such an exact opposite opinion, who to trust and finally: Do you drink milk or not? 

Raw milk, and by that I mean the domestic fresh milk which is not industrially processed, natural and healthy food of man, and all dairy products made from raw milk. Raw milk is an excellent source of nutrients, but also very important beneficial bacteria such as lactobacteria, which we now know to play a crucial role in strengthening the immune system and protect the body from various illnesses. Raw milk is also an excellent source of vitamins, minerals and enzymes and contains punovrijedne proteins and fats, which are the building material for our bodies. Raw milk and its products are actually perfectly natural and punovrijedne foods for humans. 

What's the problem? I believe you can guess. The problem is in the industrial processing of milk. As is the case with many other foods, industrial processing of milk destroys this remarkable food and gives it a completely different properties. The milk we buy in stores is pasteurized and homogenized. Pasteurization is the process by which the milk is heated to high temperatures to kill bacteria in milk. At first this may sound quite right, knowing that the pathogenic agents of various diseases. However, pasteurization has completely changed the structure of the milk, and milk instead of becoming a safe and helpful guide, it actually becomes something else entirely. As well as heating at high temperatures kills pathogenic bacteria, it kills beneficial lactobacteria and many other nutritional components. High temperature completely changes the structure-sensitive dairy proteins denature and become very difficult to digest and harmful to health. 

Pasteurization destroys enzymes entirely from milk that are necessary for the breakdown and digestion of milk. Pasteurization reduces vitamin content, denatured milk proteins, destroys vitamins B12 and B6, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin C, prevents the absorption of calcium from milk, kills beneficial bacteria and promotes pathogens! Could it be worse? If you leave raw milk at room temperature, the milk will not spoil but you will get sour milk - very good snack. This is because the beneficial bacteria from raw milk keep bad bacteria under control. However, pasteurized milk has beneficial bacteria that keeps it from rotting. 

Denatured milk proteins due to their structure is very difficult to digest, in addition to the pasteurized milk destroyed all the enzymes and beneficial lactobacteria that help breakdown and digestion of milk components. Because of these problems, processed milk is one of the most common allergen and is associated with a variety of symptoms and illnesses such as digestive disorders, allergies, colic in infants, tooth decay, osteoporosis, arthritis, problems with growth in children, frequent ear infections in children , heart disease and cancer. On the other hand, raw milk does not cause disease conditions but promotes health, and people who for many years were allergic to milk, can typically tolerate raw milk. Raw milk is one of the healthiest and most complete food that can be consumed and so differs from industrially processed milk from these two ingredients would not be called a common name. 

With pasteurization began in the 20s of last century, at a time when tuberculosis was a road, as well as other infectious diseases due to poor animal health and poor hygienic conditions and production methods. But times have changed and today is used in stainless steel tanks, milking machines and cooling systems, and implemented strict sanitary inspection pasteurization thus becomes completely unnecessary. The only person who benefits from the industry pasteurization pasteurized milk because it extends the shelf life. 

The second process where the milk is coming out homogenization, fat molecules break under pressure, in order to prevent the creation of cream on milk. And this is a very unnatural process because the fat that gets no more its natural structure. In addition to the milk removed (skimmed) fat so that the buying milk contains more than 3% fat. Here for comparison: I buy milk directly from farmers, Jersey breed of cow, containing more than 6% fat. The worst is that consumers are deceived the whole milk and skim harmful skim milk well and healthy. Only because of the campaign against natural fat and aggressive propaganda, light products, the industry has managed to free industrial surplus that remains after skimming cream anticipated to produce other dairy products, as well as placed on the market these defatted products of poor quality. 

Milk fat contains vitamins A and D needed for assimilation of calcium and protein, and these vitamins without calcium and proteins become harder usable and potentially dangerous. Milk fat is also rich in short and medium-long chain fatty acids that provide a barrier against disease and stimulate the immune SITEM.Furthermore Milk fat contains very valuable CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) which has strong anticancer activity. All of these important nutrients disappear industrial processing of milk. 

Anyone spend, milk is pasteurized, even what is called "fresh milk". The difference between "fresh" and "permanent" milk in the temperature and time to which the milk is coming out in the process of pasteurization. Fresh milk is heated to about 60-70 degrees, while UHT milk is heated to temperatures above 100 degrees (UHT process) which he still further date. 

There are still the problems of antibiotics, pesticides and growth hormones, and the fact that almost all commercial cattle feed grains instead of grazing, which is their natural food. All of this changes the composition of fat in the milk, especially CLA. The rights of natural food for cows producing milk is green grass in the spring, summer and fall, and hay in winter. No amount of soy flour, cereals and various industrial wastes can not be a good food for the animals. Vital substances such as vitamins A and D, and the "Activator X" (by Dr. Weston A. Price found in all natural full-fat foods, and who is now considered that this vitamin K2) are required for optimal assimilation of minerals and in largely present in the milk of cows that eat grass, especially rapidly stretches the grass in spring and autumn. However, vitamins A and D drastically reduce the Activator X disappears completely feed the cows commercially grains and soybeans. 

Not so long ago, before the "modern" industrial methods, for generations the people used, and children growing up in the domestic fresh whole milk, natural yellow butter, fresh local cheeses and cream. If you can purchase local raw milk, it's the best thing you can do for your family's health. It is not difficult to make homemade yogurt, kefir, cottage cheese ... I need a little time and energy, but it is negligible compared to the value you receive, because the value of good health can not be measured with anything. 

Demand creates supply, and a hundred of us who look for natural fresh milk and meat of animals that live freely and graze on green pastures, that the faster manufacturers have adapted to the requirements of consumers. The future is in our hands, because we're the ones who'll decide where to invest your money and what products we buy and the market is dependent on the customer. Help for small local producers, who are engaged in the production of livestock, poultry, fruit and vegetables in a little so that you will buy their products. Boycott the worst impoverished highly processed food with no nutrients and which contains many harmful additives. Industrial screwed food contributes to a variety of comorbid conditions as natural and healthy food keeps good health and increases the quality of life. 

25 misconceptions about food and drink

First Sugar leads to caries

Caries occurs when the merge of three things: bacteria, carbohydrates and time. Sweets do not harm the teeth, where it is carried out regular and thorough dental hygiene. Worse is when they eat foods full of starches such example. potato chips and oatmeal and then do not wash their teeth.Starch is a long chain of fruit sugar. Pure sugar with saliva will be quickly removed, and full of starchy foods glued remains on the teeth to create the substrate for the bacteria that cause tooth decay.

Second The best oil is olive oil

There is no doubt that olive oil is healthy, but canola oil is healthier because it contains much more important Omega 3 fatty acids The rankings are good oils: linseed oil, soybean oil and walnut oil.What is called cooking oil or vegetable oil is almost always the colza oil.

Third Coffee pulls water from the body

Favorite drink a challenge for us to affect the operation of the urinary bladder. But that just means that we have on the toilet faster than with a cup of herbal tea. It is crucial that the body does not release more liquid than it receives. Therefore, coffee may belong to a daily amount of fluid that needs to take a two to three liters.

4th Margarine contains fewer calories than butter.

Delusion! And margarine and butter contain about 80 grams of fat and that is 750 calories per 100 grams. Diet margarine contains less fat than the content of polyunsaturated fatty acids prevent the disease. Anyone who wants to avoid the introduction of fat in the body consumes some margarine and butter with half the calories (360).

5th Chocolate spoils ten

Rubbish! Good or bad looking skin is genetically conditioned. The worst enemies of your skin as smoking and sun. Pimples are almost always hormonal cause.

6th Anyone who wants to lose weight should eat smaller meals.

This is bad advice! Snacks that contain carbohydrates raise insulin. This prevents the breakdown of fat and causes the food to fat cells. Three main meals and one hour in between fasting insulin lead to sleep which promotes fat burning. Glad to be in between meals to quench fasting spicy cheese which add sliced ​​peppers, tomato or fruit.

7th Those that feed on as residents of Crete, can live 100 years and even 110 and then another burst of Health. This is due to Crete traditional food which contains lots of fruits and vegetables, bread, lentils, fresh fish and oil that is produced from olives Koroneiki. But in the middle of the Mediterranean countries the situation is slowly changing. It is assumed that the reason for greatly increased consumption of meat.

8th Children should eat a salad

Lettuce is healthy but does not contain any more nutrients that are also found in other fruits and vegetables. Carrots and melons contain more beta carotene. Broccoli, cauliflower and fennel contain more vitamin C. The salad was represented folic acid with 75 micrograms per 100 grams of lettuce and plays an important role in cell formation. Tomato contains half a pepper-third of folic acid. Nitrate content in lettuce grown in greenhouses often exceeds the value that is recommended by the National Institute for the Control products. It is therefore advisable to use products grown in a natural way.

9th Fruit sugar is fattening

It would be nice if it were true. New research shows that fruit sugar as opposed to normal sugar stimulates the creation of fat depots, especially in men worsens blood test. Estrogen women working on the tie.

10th Sugar decreases the amount of calcium in the body

Over 90 years, that statement is a misconception of law. Based on the fact that the research that is conducted in Japan showed that animal bones could not properly constructed because they gave large amounts of sugar without the addition of vitamin D (responsible for the con bones). It was assumed that the soft bones of sugar was responsible. This misconception has spread the world and I still believe in it. If the body receives a bad calcium, then it is the products which contain oxalate acid such as spinach, beets, chard. celery, rhubarb, cocoa and chocolate.

11th Mushrooms are not reheat

Mushrooms contain a lot of water and on average how many proteins are found in milk and dairy products. For this reason, quickly break down. For proteins that are found in mushrooms may arise harmful substances that appear in the decomposition holds them longer at room temperature. A meal with mushrooms is therefore necessary to keep in the refrigerator for no longer than one day if it is good to heat, there is nothing in the way that it is eaten with pleasure.

12th Sugar reduces the amount of vitamin

And this statement is a fallacy! When the biochemical conversion of fruit sugar (= glucose / blood sugar) plays an important role vitamin B1. In contrast to previous assumptions in which it was thought that there would be dissolved, it was concluded to be repeatedly used for the conversion.Important: each type of carbohydrates, ranging from fruit sugar and starch, are thus degraded in the body. In addition, vitamin B1 is used for the breakdown of protein and fat.

13th Sugar affects the increased activity

Research in the seventies and eighties of last century have confirmed this fact. Some other researchers have disputed them in turn. Most experts increased activity of children justifies the uniqueness of metabolism in the brain.

14th Sweets is a need to allocate more parts

15th Consuming artificial sweeteners are harmful

16th Fresh milk is healthier than permanent

Fresh milk is tastier and contains little more vitamins than permanent, but the difference is so small that it is not worth mentioning.

17th The use of aluminum cookware harmful effect on health

The use of aluminum cookware is the State Office for the risk assessment and the WHO organization rated as safe. Aluminum is an element that appears in the body in trace amounts. And scientists can be fooled with the claim that example. apple puree, sauerkraut, tomato can free aluminum from aluminum dishes. Aluminum from the body completely disappears.However, those who want to be absolutely sure, use an enamelled or anodised cookware.

18th Dried fruits are healthy and honey sweets

If sugar is not healthy, then it can not be any honey (contains 78% sugar) or a dried fruit (contains 45% sugar). Dried fruit is especially beneficial for caries because it sticks to your teeth. By the way: brown sugar has no advantage over white sugar. Only he has a better flavor.

19th Mineral water without oxygen challenge for

Deep inhalation and exhalation brings better results. According to today's experiences, through the stomach and intestines into the blood due very small amounts of oxygen.

20th Brown bread is healthier than white

If the bread used for coloring mulch, in reality we actually bought bread from white flour. This bread contains less vitamins, minerals and ballast substances. In the bakery because you only look for bread wheat.

21st Secondary plant substances protect against cancer, heart attack and aging ! Flavonoids and vitamins positive effect on high blood pressure, and the value cholesterol cells exclusively in containers for use in experiments and in animal experiments.Therefore, we can not talk about the bad effects and to what degree they are good also not known.

22nd Water and nuts

Water on the cucumbers and gooseberries will lead to abdominal pain ... Fruit which is added to water does not swell or so in the stomach. The consumption of unwashed fruit that contains yeast fungi and microorganisms that promote digestion is what leads to problems in the process of digestion. In general, gastric acid makes the germs not harmful. If you come into the stomach a large quantity of water, stomach acid would be so diluted that it can no longer perform that function. To prevent germs from entering fruit it must always follow. Those directly from the tree or bush picked fruit would have to wait at least half an hour before you reach for a glass of water.

23rd Spinach contains lots of iron

Many children carry childhood traumas when they see a plate full of spinach. And this despite the fact that for 80 years knows that a floating point error in stating the amount of iron content, spinach gave a good reputation as a holder of large amounts of iron. Compared with other types of vegetable is spinach good food. The only pity is that the oxalate acids that weaken the receipt of spinach contains iron in the body.

24th Pork is pure fat

This statement is the past. With newly cultivated species of pigs and different way to achieve that we have pieces of meat that contain fat in the sale of a thinner piece of muscle mass more common. A pork fillet was 20 years ago contained 12% fat, boiling today only 2.4%. With beef tenderloin is the value fell to 4.2%.

25th Mixed dried fruit, raisins, almonds, hazelnuts, etc.., As food for the brain

From this we become smarter. Before we will be tired and to increase weight if you eat them in large quantities. Bag of 100 grams contains 500 to 700 calories. Hazelnuts, almonds and so are food for the nerves to the brain but only the food that gets fruit sugar from the blood. At long learning is something still can be consumed as a combination of sugar (the amount of raisins: 60 to 70%) and fat (almonds, hazelnuts: 40 to 70%) affect the stability of blood sugar.

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How much water do we need to drink?

Good hydration is essential for a successful exercise, and every other activity, which is especially noticeable in the summer. Longer state of dehydration can be truly devastating effect on the entire body.

A well-balanced body hydration is the first preparation for exercising in hot weather and it is important to know that it is not achieved in a day or two. Practitioner should be enough time, ten days to two weeks, got used to the heat and adjust the intensity of exercise to new conditions. Here, fresh morning hours should be reserved for the activities of greater intensity, while the easier tasks should be left for the hot afternoon.

Choose liquid. The basic rule is to drink during workouts 1.5 dl of water or isotonic drink, preferably every 20 minutes. Do you exercise less than 40 minutes will be enough to take water, but during each exercise longer than 40 minutes is necessary to take the sports drink that contains sugar or salt, as it will increase the fluid that moves the body. Most sports drinks contain ingredients that are, one might say, the equivalent of "active pump" and allow the body's cells to receive the liquid faster than what happens when you take in only water.

How to recognize dehydration? You can not always say exactly when acting dehydration. Or as vividly told Eric Frohlich, fitness trainer from New York: "People do not point the amount of fuel as they have cars, and thus no way to know whether you own or drive" in the red. " The feeling of thirst is a fairly unreliable signal a lack of fluids. Early signs of dehydration may include loss of concentration, headache and confusion. Many people are chronically dehydrated and should drink before you feel thirsty. One of the basic tips for athletes is: a regular hydration before the greater physical effort (training or competition) drink 4 oz of fluid in the body to give extra fluid. This does not mean gulp drink two glasses of water just before the activity, but is slowly consumed two hours before a larger effort.

The simplest way to verify that you are well hydrated is to look at your urine. If the urine is pale yellow and very clear color to a pretty good indicator that the organism is adequately hydrated. On the other hand, dark-colored urine indicates the possibility of dehydration of the organism.

Poisoning water. I eat extremely large amounts of water can be harmful and cause serious health problems. Over-hydration of the body, namely, can cause a rare condition, hyponatremia, which can sometimes be life threatening. This disorder is also called water intoxication.

Hyponatremia occurs in people who drink so much water that comes up, in layman's terms, dilution of sodium and calcium in their body. Very low levels of electrolytes in the blood can cause blurred consciousness, nausea and vomiting, disorientation, dizziness and in severe cases, convulsions, loss of consciousness and even death. It is less likely to happen this weekend-state athletes, but for those who are engaged in hectic and demanding events such as marathons, there is a greater risk of hyponatremia.

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