What do you drink during the day?
Q. I probably drink 3 glasses of water and 2 diet cokes per day. Not good, I know ... I need to drink more water. What is your liquid intake for an average day?
A. I drink plenty of water, not less than 10 full glasses a day apart from a chocolate milk drink at breakfast and fruit juices in between meals, hot soup. I drink little diet coke occasionally-( I drink a lot of softdrinks in the past even more than the amount of water but I have to control myself now after getting renal stone.)
As long as you do not have the condition where lots of fluids is contraindicated, keep on drinking fluids..lots of fluids, it is good to your health - beneficial to your kidneys, skin,bowels, and everywhere. Averagewise : 6-8 glasses of water in cool weather and 8-10 glasses in warm seasons. Depending on your activities, you can make adjustments to what you drink. Drink healthy, it won't drown you.
As long as you do not have the condition where lots of fluids is contraindicated, keep on drinking fluids..lots of fluids, it is good to your health - beneficial to your kidneys, skin,bowels, and everywhere. Averagewise : 6-8 glasses of water in cool weather and 8-10 glasses in warm seasons. Depending on your activities, you can make adjustments to what you drink. Drink healthy, it won't drown you.
What are some NATURAL ways to boost my immune system to ward off the flu this year?
Q. I know about washing hands, blah blah blah. I'm interested in specific vitamins or other remedies that might help strengthen my body's ability to ward it off.
If your answer is "get a flu shot" please don't bother as I am allergic so it's not an option. Thanks!
If your answer is "get a flu shot" please don't bother as I am allergic so it's not an option. Thanks!
A. we get sick because our immune system is weak.
There are alot of things you can do to accelerate boosting your immune system. Some to by recognizing what caused your immune system to get weak, then avoiding those things as much as possible. Before I share many ways to boost your immune system, take a look at some possible reasons why our immune system gets weak.
1) Toxins: Most people today have excess accumulation of toxins and waste material in their bodies causing their body to be acidic and adding stress to their immune system function. The two main reasons for this is
a) People are putting huge amounts of toxins (mostly unknowingly) in their bodies on a regular basis and
b) their elimination channels are clogged, slow or sluggish.
c) toxins like "junk" food, medications(drugs), sugars, excess alcohol, allergens all stress your immune system, thus making it weak and unable to fight the germs when exposed to them.
2) Nutritional Deficiency:
When your body lacks nutrition, you will have a weak immune system.
Since our bodies can not produce nutrients needed for optimal health, quality food plays a major factor in keeping our cells healthy and our immune system strong. Food not only provides energy to your body, but all the nutrients that are essential for a healthy immune system.
3) Lack of drinking healthy water:
Dehydration means the cells just simply do not have enough fluid. Dehydration cause medical problems including pain, arthritis, asthma, and allergies, among other medical issues. It can affect your energy and your sleep, and the ability to get toxins/waste material out of the body.
4) Lack of physical activity:
Lack of regular, moderate exercise appears to slow down cleansing the body of certain toxins and waste products
5) Lack of sufficient rest:
lack of sleep will stress your immune system and thus increase the risk of catching a bug.
6) Chronic stress
People who are under chronic stress have lower than normal white blood cell counts, are more vulnerable to colds and other viruses and take longer to recover from them. They are more likely to experience more severe symptoms than people who are not under a great deal of stress.
The good news is you can strengthen your immune system by doing as many of the following list as possible....
1) I know you heard about washing your hands, it does help, but obviously it is much more than that. Keep practicing good personal hygiene care, and wash your hands! The great plague of 1918 could have been avoided by practicing good personal hygiene.
2) get plenty of rest. During deep sleep, our body release potent immune-enhancing substances that strengthen your immune system function. By not allowing our body sufficient rest, the immune system will sputter, and as a result, not function at full capacity. We then are more likely to become ill with common illnesses. A healthy, deep sleep allows our body to release a significant amount of growth hormone that boost the immune system and aids in the growth and repair of the body.
3) get moderate and regular exercise
An increase in blood flow associated with moderate exercise helps to circulate antibodies along with white blood cells necessary to fight infection more quickly. As a result, this provides our bodies with an early warning system to ward off potentially damaging germs. In addition, the increase in body temperature as a result of physical activity may aid in inhibiting the growth of bacteria; thus allowing the body to fight infection more effectively.
4) Receiving a Regular Body Cleansing.
Body cleansing is essential because our bodies need to properly eliminate the toxic build up that has formed in our intestines (colon), which may lead to sickness and disease. Our body organs and tissues must be free of toxins for the immune system to function optimally thus enabling our bodies to receive the essential nutrients our bodies need.
5) Boost immune system by drinking plenty of filtered water.
Water is essential for all living things and keeps our immune system operating optimally while improving the way we feel, look and live. Without sufficient amounts of water, you may experience routine fatigue, dry skin, headaches, constipation, and a decrease normal bodily function which may lead to your body unable to fight off diseases. Without water we would literally dehydrate which could result in the shutting down of vital organs and ultimately end in death.
6) Eliminate all sugar and allergens from your diet.
Just a small amount of sugar has been proven to impair white blood cells up to 50% for very short periods of time. By discovering what our personal food allergies are, then eliminating or desensitizing them will help strengthen your immune system. By removing these triggers, our immune cells are strengthened in order to combat other invaders such as influenza rather than the allergen. The elimination of sugar from your diet can also strengthen immune system.
7) Eat nutritiously
Good foods to eat include organic fruits and vegetables, chloretta, medicinal mushrooms like maitake, shiitake, reishi, or turkey tail. Besides water, wheatgrass juice, aloe vera juice, or green tea are good drinks. If it doesnât rot or sprout, do without.
Stay away from junk food like pop, bake goods, any processed foods. Bad foods contain stuff like refined sugar, sodium nitrite, Trans fats, Mono-sodium glutamate (MSG), Artificial colors, preservatives, and flavors.
8) Take supplements
Supplements are needed because our bodies can not produce the nutrients necessary to maintain optimum health. There are many nutrients needed in order to maintain a strong immune system. It is very challenging in the world we live in to obtain sufficient nutrition with the foods available to us. They are over processed and void of many essential nutrients. Additionally, food is grown in soils that have been over-planted and saturated with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Vitamin and mineral deficiency subjects us to more diseases, aging, sickness, and the weakening of our immune system.
Best herbs include echinacea, goldenseal, garlic, olive leaf extract, elderberry, or astragalus.
Best vitamins include Vitamin A, C, or E. These are a good source of antioxidants, which will boost your immune system.
The minerals zinc and selenium also help with boosting your immune system.
As you can see, there is no one magic cure, one supplement, or one way to ward off the flu, but there are many natural things you can do to help your situation.
More details can be found at the website in the source box.
There are alot of things you can do to accelerate boosting your immune system. Some to by recognizing what caused your immune system to get weak, then avoiding those things as much as possible. Before I share many ways to boost your immune system, take a look at some possible reasons why our immune system gets weak.
1) Toxins: Most people today have excess accumulation of toxins and waste material in their bodies causing their body to be acidic and adding stress to their immune system function. The two main reasons for this is
a) People are putting huge amounts of toxins (mostly unknowingly) in their bodies on a regular basis and
b) their elimination channels are clogged, slow or sluggish.
c) toxins like "junk" food, medications(drugs), sugars, excess alcohol, allergens all stress your immune system, thus making it weak and unable to fight the germs when exposed to them.
2) Nutritional Deficiency:
When your body lacks nutrition, you will have a weak immune system.
Since our bodies can not produce nutrients needed for optimal health, quality food plays a major factor in keeping our cells healthy and our immune system strong. Food not only provides energy to your body, but all the nutrients that are essential for a healthy immune system.
3) Lack of drinking healthy water:
Dehydration means the cells just simply do not have enough fluid. Dehydration cause medical problems including pain, arthritis, asthma, and allergies, among other medical issues. It can affect your energy and your sleep, and the ability to get toxins/waste material out of the body.
4) Lack of physical activity:
Lack of regular, moderate exercise appears to slow down cleansing the body of certain toxins and waste products
5) Lack of sufficient rest:
lack of sleep will stress your immune system and thus increase the risk of catching a bug.
6) Chronic stress
People who are under chronic stress have lower than normal white blood cell counts, are more vulnerable to colds and other viruses and take longer to recover from them. They are more likely to experience more severe symptoms than people who are not under a great deal of stress.
The good news is you can strengthen your immune system by doing as many of the following list as possible....
1) I know you heard about washing your hands, it does help, but obviously it is much more than that. Keep practicing good personal hygiene care, and wash your hands! The great plague of 1918 could have been avoided by practicing good personal hygiene.
2) get plenty of rest. During deep sleep, our body release potent immune-enhancing substances that strengthen your immune system function. By not allowing our body sufficient rest, the immune system will sputter, and as a result, not function at full capacity. We then are more likely to become ill with common illnesses. A healthy, deep sleep allows our body to release a significant amount of growth hormone that boost the immune system and aids in the growth and repair of the body.
3) get moderate and regular exercise
An increase in blood flow associated with moderate exercise helps to circulate antibodies along with white blood cells necessary to fight infection more quickly. As a result, this provides our bodies with an early warning system to ward off potentially damaging germs. In addition, the increase in body temperature as a result of physical activity may aid in inhibiting the growth of bacteria; thus allowing the body to fight infection more effectively.
4) Receiving a Regular Body Cleansing.
Body cleansing is essential because our bodies need to properly eliminate the toxic build up that has formed in our intestines (colon), which may lead to sickness and disease. Our body organs and tissues must be free of toxins for the immune system to function optimally thus enabling our bodies to receive the essential nutrients our bodies need.
5) Boost immune system by drinking plenty of filtered water.
Water is essential for all living things and keeps our immune system operating optimally while improving the way we feel, look and live. Without sufficient amounts of water, you may experience routine fatigue, dry skin, headaches, constipation, and a decrease normal bodily function which may lead to your body unable to fight off diseases. Without water we would literally dehydrate which could result in the shutting down of vital organs and ultimately end in death.
6) Eliminate all sugar and allergens from your diet.
Just a small amount of sugar has been proven to impair white blood cells up to 50% for very short periods of time. By discovering what our personal food allergies are, then eliminating or desensitizing them will help strengthen your immune system. By removing these triggers, our immune cells are strengthened in order to combat other invaders such as influenza rather than the allergen. The elimination of sugar from your diet can also strengthen immune system.
7) Eat nutritiously
Good foods to eat include organic fruits and vegetables, chloretta, medicinal mushrooms like maitake, shiitake, reishi, or turkey tail. Besides water, wheatgrass juice, aloe vera juice, or green tea are good drinks. If it doesnât rot or sprout, do without.
Stay away from junk food like pop, bake goods, any processed foods. Bad foods contain stuff like refined sugar, sodium nitrite, Trans fats, Mono-sodium glutamate (MSG), Artificial colors, preservatives, and flavors.
8) Take supplements
Supplements are needed because our bodies can not produce the nutrients necessary to maintain optimum health. There are many nutrients needed in order to maintain a strong immune system. It is very challenging in the world we live in to obtain sufficient nutrition with the foods available to us. They are over processed and void of many essential nutrients. Additionally, food is grown in soils that have been over-planted and saturated with synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Vitamin and mineral deficiency subjects us to more diseases, aging, sickness, and the weakening of our immune system.
Best herbs include echinacea, goldenseal, garlic, olive leaf extract, elderberry, or astragalus.
Best vitamins include Vitamin A, C, or E. These are a good source of antioxidants, which will boost your immune system.
The minerals zinc and selenium also help with boosting your immune system.
As you can see, there is no one magic cure, one supplement, or one way to ward off the flu, but there are many natural things you can do to help your situation.
More details can be found at the website in the source box.
What negative health effects does drinking diet soda have on your body?
Q. I drink a lot of Diet Pepsi every day. At least 3 - 4 cans. I know it may be linked to cancer, but I was wondering if it could be preventing me from loosing weight, or deteriorating muscle tone, etc.
I can't seem to loose any weight although I eat healthy and excercise a few times a week. I'm 5'8 and weigh 130.
I can't seem to loose any weight although I eat healthy and excercise a few times a week. I'm 5'8 and weigh 130.
A. UMmmmm First of all ...
if your 5ft.8 inches and 130 LBS.....
YOUR NOT OVERWEIGHT!!!
Second, "if your eating "healthy food why not DRINK Healthy Drinks?
>Like 100% Orange Juice or Apple Juice...among others
>MILK - It does a body Good :)
>WATER - Pure Clear Clean Refreshing Water
>TEA - Hot Tea or Iced Tea - Green tea is Great for you.Plus there is an endless variety of Tea Flavors to choose from.
Just becasue your not overweight doesn't mean you don't shouldn't eat /drink Healthy Foods.
If you want to Tone up...EXERCISE - just being slim or at a "normal" weight doesn't mean you will automatically be physically fit.
You have to tone what you have, make it into Muscle ( not "bulky muscle") slim, lean clean lines that ARE TONED.
*Just be aware that Ironically as you turn FAT into Muscle you will probably "Weigh" more...but look slimmer.
Why?
Because Muscle weighs More than Fat.
It isn't the number on the scale that matters , it's the amount of lean muscle mass that you have and how it "looks" that is way you feel "fat" at 5,8 and 130 lbs...cause it's jiggly!
Work out with some weights a bit run, walk, do crunchs...ride your bike...get off your skinny little flabby butt and
QUIT drinking "Diet" anything.
You will need the extra calories if your really working out
Good Luck!
YUCKY
Diet Coke/Pepsi -
Get ready to ditch your soda habit. Iâm kicking Diet Coke â it takes time, and Iâm down to five a week from a high of 12, but itâs worth it.
Hereâs why: Recent research has shown that artificial sweeteners in soda may interfere with your bodyâs ability to estimate how many calories youâve ingested, so you eat more than you need.
In a new rat study, animals that ate fake sugar consumed more calories overall and gained weight, compared to those that didnât eat artificially sweetened treats.
This is just one study, but itâs enough to make me want to kick the can habit. Need more convincing? For every diet soda you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight can rise by 37 percent, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
We also know that regular soda is a total sugar bomb â most people I know gave it up long ago. At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle of regular soda packs nearly as many calories as a chocolate bar (but is much less satisfying).
Typically, soda also contains zero nutrients â so who needs it? Still have some soda around? Fine, stow it for guests who havenât decided to quit. Next time you want a fizz hit, try seltzer with lime (or for a caffeine fix, green tea). What are your favorite low-cal soda substitutes?
There are two opinions:
Arguments about an aspartame-cancer connection have flared for years. Recently, Italian researchers concluded that aspartame does increase certain cancers in rats, including breast cancer. But the scientific truism applies: Rats aren't people. And more than 200 studies, including one on humans in 2006 by the National Cancer Institute, have found no evidence of this. Still, suspicious groups remain, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an ardent consumer advocacy group. What to do? Drink responsibly--and we don't mean downing the FDA's "acceptable" max of 21 cans of aspartame-sweetened soda a day for a 165-pound adult. Inside all the research there's an informal consensus that, for adults, a can a day is likely to do no harm.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/diet-soda/AN01732
PEACE
if your 5ft.8 inches and 130 LBS.....
YOUR NOT OVERWEIGHT!!!
Second, "if your eating "healthy food why not DRINK Healthy Drinks?
>Like 100% Orange Juice or Apple Juice...among others
>MILK - It does a body Good :)
>WATER - Pure Clear Clean Refreshing Water
>TEA - Hot Tea or Iced Tea - Green tea is Great for you.Plus there is an endless variety of Tea Flavors to choose from.
Just becasue your not overweight doesn't mean you don't shouldn't eat /drink Healthy Foods.
If you want to Tone up...EXERCISE - just being slim or at a "normal" weight doesn't mean you will automatically be physically fit.
You have to tone what you have, make it into Muscle ( not "bulky muscle") slim, lean clean lines that ARE TONED.
*Just be aware that Ironically as you turn FAT into Muscle you will probably "Weigh" more...but look slimmer.
Why?
Because Muscle weighs More than Fat.
It isn't the number on the scale that matters , it's the amount of lean muscle mass that you have and how it "looks" that is way you feel "fat" at 5,8 and 130 lbs...cause it's jiggly!
Work out with some weights a bit run, walk, do crunchs...ride your bike...get off your skinny little flabby butt and
QUIT drinking "Diet" anything.
You will need the extra calories if your really working out
Good Luck!
YUCKY
Diet Coke/Pepsi -
Get ready to ditch your soda habit. Iâm kicking Diet Coke â it takes time, and Iâm down to five a week from a high of 12, but itâs worth it.
Hereâs why: Recent research has shown that artificial sweeteners in soda may interfere with your bodyâs ability to estimate how many calories youâve ingested, so you eat more than you need.
In a new rat study, animals that ate fake sugar consumed more calories overall and gained weight, compared to those that didnât eat artificially sweetened treats.
This is just one study, but itâs enough to make me want to kick the can habit. Need more convincing? For every diet soda you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight can rise by 37 percent, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
We also know that regular soda is a total sugar bomb â most people I know gave it up long ago. At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle of regular soda packs nearly as many calories as a chocolate bar (but is much less satisfying).
Typically, soda also contains zero nutrients â so who needs it? Still have some soda around? Fine, stow it for guests who havenât decided to quit. Next time you want a fizz hit, try seltzer with lime (or for a caffeine fix, green tea). What are your favorite low-cal soda substitutes?
There are two opinions:
Arguments about an aspartame-cancer connection have flared for years. Recently, Italian researchers concluded that aspartame does increase certain cancers in rats, including breast cancer. But the scientific truism applies: Rats aren't people. And more than 200 studies, including one on humans in 2006 by the National Cancer Institute, have found no evidence of this. Still, suspicious groups remain, including the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an ardent consumer advocacy group. What to do? Drink responsibly--and we don't mean downing the FDA's "acceptable" max of 21 cans of aspartame-sweetened soda a day for a 165-pound adult. Inside all the research there's an informal consensus that, for adults, a can a day is likely to do no harm.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/diet-soda/AN01732
PEACE
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