Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

How to Avoid Heat Stress While Exercising


Heat stress is a dangerous problem while exercising which can even take life of a person. Symptoms of heat stress should always be kept in mind and proper measures should be taken when any of the heat stress symptom occurs.
To avoid such kind of problem try to drink plenty of water, avoid hottest part of the day, wear exercise suit and adapt to changing environment. Symptoms of heat stress should always be kept in mind and proper measures should be taken when any of the heat stress symptom occurs.
Sweating is very important for our body to avoid heat stress. It happens to cool down the heating effect of the body. If sweating is not much to cool down the body temperature then the problem arises of heat stress. People who work in warm or steamy environment usually face problem of heat stress as their sweating does not evaporate to cool down their body temperature. Heat stress includes fatal problems like heat exhaustionfaintingheat stroke and heat cramps. You can avoid the problem of heat stress by following simple following tips.
  • Drink Plenty of Water to Avoid Heat Stress
Water is an essential ingredient of our life and if taken in less quantity causes number of problems. Heat stress is one of them. While exercises when you are sweating you are actually losing water from your body, that is why it is very important to drink large amount of water in humid environment to avoid the problem of heat stress. We have usually seen players keeping a bottle of sports water with them. They mainly keep it with them to escape from heat stress.
  • Avoid the Hottest Part of the Day to Avoid Heat Stress
In summer avoid exercising at afternoon time as temperature is high and it is more probable that you will get heat stress. Try to do exercise in morning or in evening. If it is difficult for you to take time out at these parts of day, then you can exercise or workout indoor with proper airing system in afternoon in order to escape from heat stress issue.
  • Wear Exercise Suit to Avoid Heat Stress
While exercising it is very important for your body that the sweat evaporates. For this it is very important for you to wear cloths which do not stick to your body when wet. You can use appropriate exercise suit when exercising to avoid heat stress.
  • Adapt new Environments to Avoid Heat Stress
If you have gone to a hotter place or the summer has arrived then try to limit your exercise or take more water breaks throughout exercise to dodge the heat stress problem.
  • Symptoms of Heat Stress
There are number of heat stress symptoms. When any of the following symptoms occurs you should go to some sheltered and cool place and drink plenty of water.
  • Sweating has increased or decreased
  • Muscle cramp
  • Feel that your face is becoming red with blood pressure
  • Heart beating has increased
  • Panting
  • Feeling weak
  • If any of this case is becoming severe then it is suggested that you see the doctor on the very first moment.
  • Heat Stroke
Heat stroke is a severe and common kind of heat stress. Person with this kind of heat stress should be taken to some cool place immediately to balance his body temperature.
  • Symptoms of heat stroke
  • Increase in body temperature
  • No sweating
  • Skin becomes dry
  • Pulse rate increases
  • Problem in breathing
  • Confusion
  • Seizures

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Beauty & Health Benefits of Drinking More Water:

We all want smooth, soft, unblemished skin. But sometimes it seems like great skin is either something you’re born with or something you’ll never achieve. These days, the medical industry has created skin care treatments that are halfway between plastic surgery and serious cosmetics. You can have your skin sanded, chemically peeled, zapped with lasers, frozen or injected with Botox, the catchy hyphenated name for botulism toxin. You can spend thousands of dollars in a pretty short period of time to achieve results that may or may not be what you hoped for.

But one of the most wonderful skin care treatments is easily available to everyone, has side benefits that affects not just your rosy glow but your whole body, and is utterly painless to use. It’s called water, and you drink it.
Not coffee. I know, coffee has water. It also has an abundance of interesting chemicals including caffeine, which raises your heartbeat, exaggerates stress on the body and causes diuresis, or loss of hydration. All these things combine to make for ravaged, hag-like skin, which if that’s what you’re aiming for, is just fine. But those of us who want to hold off hagdom as long as possible have to face the facts: that cappuccino may taste good, but it’s going to increase under eye circles, make your kidneys work harder than they should, and can result in breakouts, flushing and blotchy skin.
The facts are these. Not Pepsi, not beer, not juice, not even tea can replace the magical, rejuvenating effects of that old classic, H2O

tered Shower Water Can Improve the Health of Your Skin and Hair

Did you know that a shower could actually be damaging your hair and skin by causing excessive dryness. It isn't the the shower water that gives you that drying feeling after a hot shower, but the chlorine that is found in almost all city tap water sources. More recently, several shower filters have come out on the market that will filter out almost all the drying chlorine in your shower water leaving your skin refreshed and clean not dry an scaly.See a shower filter that will rid your water of the drying effects of chorine.

How much water should you drink

With these thoughts in mind, I decided to actually drink the 8, 8-ounce glasses of water recommended by beauty experts and dermatologists alike. That’s four glasses in the morning, and four more after lunch, a doable goal. I filled my glass from the tap and took a drink. I tasted chlorine, chemicals, weird odiferous things that don’t smell like water should. City water stinks. This was going to be harder than I thought.

Bottled Drinking Water

I could buy bottled water, at a dollar a pint, at the grocery store. Let’s see, there are two cups in a pint, and I need to drink at least 8 cups per day. Four dollars a days sounds like a lot for water, don’t you think? Like I’m going to spend $120 a month on drinking water! And, then I’ll need to buy 28 bottles of water a week, and bring them home and store them. At this rate, I’ll never drink water again.