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By the time a person feels thirsty, dehydration has already kicked in. This not only means that the urge to quench thirst is strong, but unfortunately, that the body's mood, mental ability and energy levels have already been compromised. "Our thirst sensation doesn't really appear until we are 1 or 2 percent dehydrated. By then dehydration is already setting in and starting to impact how our mind and body perform," says Lawrence E. Armstrong, professor of physiology at the University of Connecticut. Armstrong was also the lead researcher in a study on the subject of hydration, which reinforced the importance of drinking plenty of water.

Furthermore, Armstrong advises people to get over the "it won't happen to me" syndrome. He says that people tend to think that only very physically active individuals are prone to dehydration, a belief that is false. "Dehydration affects all people, and staying properly hydrated is just as important for those who work all day at a computer as it is for marathon runners, who can lose up to 8 percent of their body weight as water when they compete."

His study examined two groups with age ranges in the twenties. One group was comprised of men and the other, women. After being sufficiently hydrated the night before, each group walked on a treadmill to induce dehydration. Then, things like their reaction time, memory and reasoning were studied. Finally, these abilities were examined again but when the participants were fully hydrated.

The results show that significant changes to the body take place when it's dehydrated. Both genders experienced fatigue and the inability to focus as well, even during mild dehydration. Researchers also noted increased anxiety and fatigue in men, although the incidences were higher for women. Women tended to develop headaches, whereas men were more likely to experience general fatigue or overall tension.

Benefits of drinking more water

Abby Phon, Certified Holistic Health and Wellness Coach, explains that the body benefits tremendously by drinking water.

1.) Flushes out toxins and boosts immunity. Drinking water can keep colds and flu at bay and get rid of toxins through sweat and urination.

2.) Promotes weight loss. The full feeling people get from drinking water makes people less inclined to overindulge.

3.) Keeps the digestive tract healthy. Water is a natural way to relieve constipation and help with digestion.

4.) Increases energy. Having more water contributes to overall energy since it helps lubricate joints, keeps the brain functioning properly and staves off headaches.

How much is necessary? Current suggestions indicate that to stay properly hydrated, people should divide their weight in pounds by half. The resulting number is the approximate number of ounces of water that should be consumed daily.

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A science enthusiast with a keen interest in health nutrition, Antonia has been intensely researching various dieting routines for several years now, weighing their highs and their lows, to bring readers the most interesting info and news in the field. While she is very excited about a high raw diet, she likes to keep a fair and balanced approach towards non-raw methods of food preparation as well.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 00:01 MEST

Updated: Thursday, 8 May 2014 01:23 MEST

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For most people the concept of thirst or dehydration doesn't get much thought dedicated to it on a daily basis. Live until you get thirsty, then drink until you no longer thirst, and then continue living until you thirst again... right? Not quite. Most people treat thirst like a fuel gauge, but its true function is more similar to that of a warning light. By the time someone feels thirsty, they are already mildly dehydrated. When thirst is satisfied, it does not mean that the individual is fully hydrated. Why would anyone care about mild dehydration? Researchers have shown that mental acuity and coordination start to decrease at 1% dehydration and are significantly decreased at 2% dehydration. That's right; mental performance is significantly reduced by dehydration before thirst is felt. Because of this, it is important for people to put real thought into their hydration habits. The best ways for someone to combat dehydration is to become aware of daily hydration needs, pinch some sea salt into their drinking water and put thought into the types of beverages they consume.

How much is enough?

Most people will spout off "eight glasses a day" in regards to their daily water needs even if they don't follow that advice. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys show that the average American consumes far less than the recommended daily requirements of water. So, will increasing water intake to eight glasses a day be optimal for everyone? No! Everyone has different water needs and a 400 lb computer programmer is going to have different daily needs than a 90 lb yoga instructor. The best goal is to strive to drink half your body weight in ounces daily. With this formula, a 100 lb person would want to drink 50 oz of water per day. Summer heat and exercise are just two examples of things that will drive up the amount of water that a person needs to drink each day.

Add a pinch of Sea Salt

Adding a pinch of sea salt to drinking water can also help tremendously in decreasing dehydration. This does NOT mean that you should use standard table salt or drink large quantities of water from the ocean. Crystal Himalayan sea salt can be found in most stores and should replace table salt not just in drinking water but also for food seasoning needs. Adding a small amount of sea salt in drinking water introduces essential minerals and electrolytes that the body requires to function. Popular sports drink companies have it right when they talk about the human body's need to replenish minerals and electrolytes, but their solution includes sugar, additives and other chemicals that are detrimental to the body. By using sea salt or looking up recipes for "natural sports drinks," people are able to reap the benefits of sports drinks without putting trash in their bodies. Although it may seem counterintuitive, water with some sea salt will do a better job at quenching thirst compared to plain water due to how the over 84 minerals in sea salt help hold water in the body.

Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D. is best known for his experiences healing prisoners with only water and salt. Dr. Batmanghelidj has written several books on the subject in which he outlines in more detail the proper amount of salt as well as all the conditions he believes are at least partially caused by chronic dehydration. The salt does change the taste of the water, but it is not something that needs to be used every time someone pours a glass of water, so it should be tolerable.

What about other drinks?

Another thing to consider is the type of drink being consumed. Many people feel any liquid has essentially the same effect as water for the body. Some drinks actually have a diuretic effect on the body, meaning that they literally work to dehydrate the body. Coffee, other caffeinated drinks and alcohol are the biggest offenders in this category. When drinking alcohol, the body increases urine excretion by 10 ml for every 1 ml of alcohol consumed. This effect continues until the alcohol is no longer in the bloodstream. Because of this huge increase of water leaving the body, people consuming alcohol must carefully monitor their hydration levels and make sure to properly hydrate afterwards. An alternative to drinking water with sea salt for people who don't care for the taste would be coconut water. Coconut water has many great hydration properties and is rich in electrolytes. People interested in drinking coconut water should do research to find the purest brand available in their area.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 00:01 CET

Updated: Wednesday, 20 November 2013 01:44 CET

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Water - just a liquid or much more? Many researchers are convinced that water is capable of "memory" by storing information and retrieving it. The possible applications are innumerable: limitless retention and storage capacity and the key to discovering the origins of life on our planet. Research into water is just beginning.

Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 00:01 MEST

Updated: Wednesday, 7 August 2013 01:09 MEST

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While the majority of concern about diet busies itself with the chemical makeup of nutritious foods, a large portion of health problems are held in place not only by what foods are eaten, but by the consumption behaviours that reinforce poor choices. Just as connoisseurs of fine dining would recommend red wine with red meat and white wine with fish, the combinations in which foods and drinks are consumed can demand each other's company. The study of gastronomy springs from the natural urge to pair complimentary flavours.

Two research studies investigating the impact that beverage choice has on accompanying eating behaviours were recently conducted at the University of Oregon and Michigan State University. The studies, while largely similar in their subject matter, differed in the ages of participants. One targeted the eating behaviours of 60 people aged 19-23, while the other studied 75 children between the ages of three and five. Both studies were investigating the impact that different drinks, such as soda or water, had on the consumption of vegetables.

Wisdom comes with practice, not age

When given the option, more of the older participants, when given sweet drinks, preferred high calorie and salty foods over the available vegetables. The study of the preschoolers played out a little bit differently, with the amount of vegetables eaten being the variable, instead of the option to choose junk food. A similar pattern still arose. When given soda instead of water, the younger children consumed fewer raw vegetables.

This could be either be due to a taste preference, or the simple fact that the caloric intake is already elevated, removing the motivation to seek out other sources. The leading researcher notes that food preferences are established by eating a particular food repeatedly. The preferences become habitualized. Dr. Cornwell believes that this unlocks an important key to curbing negative eating behaviours before they start. Childhood exposure to high calorie foods may condition future eating behaviours to seek out foods that are poor health choices.

Filling up before a meal

Drinking water with meals could make a big dent in the health problems and rising obesity rates, simply by forcing people to get more of their caloric intake from their foods. Consuming sugary drinks works against the probability that both children and adults are going to consume their vegetables. In many Asian countries, the first course of a meal is often a soup, which is both low calorie and takes the edge off of the hunger, making individuals far less likely to overeat.

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Raw Michelle is a natural health blogger and researcher, sharing her passions with others, using the Internet as her medium. She discusses topics in a straight forward way in hopes to help people from all walks of life achieve optimal health and well-being.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 01:01 MEST

Updated: Friday, 8 June 2012 02:10 MEST

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The collection of medically-indoctrinated idiots known as the European Food Standards Authority has officially disallowed a product health claim that says water prevents dehydration.

This means the EU does not even recognize the therapeutic ability of water to reverse chronic dehydration. It makes you wonder: If water cannot treat dehydration, then what would they use instead? Vaccines?

The claim that was denied by the EFSA stated that "regular consumption of significant amounts of water can reduce the risk of development of dehydration." This claim was submitted to the EFSA by consultants who advise food and beverage companies (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...). They wanted to see if such a commonsense claim would be recognized by the EFSA. It's kind of an "IQ test" for the EFSA, you see.

Not surprisingly, the EFSA failed that IQ test. Maybe that's because it is staffed by morons who probably can't tell their own arse from their eye sockets, and it's a wonder they can even remember to pull down their own pants before using the toilet.

So now, the denial of this commonsense health claim about water has been made into an EU directive which applies across the entire European Union.

Oh, goody! Now total idiocy is the law of the land...

Frontal lobe? What frontal lobe?

Let it be known that if you ever had any doubts about the cognitively evacuated morons who run the EU, those doubts have now been laid to rest with this EU directive which officially declares that water cannot prevent dehydration.

They might as well just declare that breathing cannot provide oxygen to your body, or that eating food cannot provide calories and nutrition. The EU has reached a level of mouth-gaping, slobbering stupidity that no nation in human history has quite matched.

Sure, the U.S. is trying to beat the EU at its own game with idiotic debt spending ($15 trillion in debt now under Obama, who added $4 trillion all by himself), followed by the loony idea that the way out of too much debt is to increase debt spending even more. And yes, Greece is probably leading the way in total fiscal stupidity by bailing out rich bankers while saddling its own citizens with a lifetime of virtually un-payable debt. But no one has yet achieved the high honor of "slap me in the face with a ham sandwich" stupidity that we're now witnessing with this EFSA declaration.

Makes the bendy banana law look downright intelligent!

Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said the ruling made the "bendy banana law" look "positively sane", reports the Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...)/

He said: "I had to read this four or five times before I believed it. It is a perfect example of what Brussels does best. Spend three years, with 20 separate pieces of correspondence before summoning 21 professors to Parma where they decide with great solemnity that drinking water cannot be sold as a way to combat dehydration. Then they make this judgment law and make it clear that if anybody dares sell water claiming that it is effective against dehydration they could get into serious legal bother."

But then, proudly standing up for the morons of planet Earth, Prof Brian Ratcliffe, a spokesman for the Nutrition Society, "...said dehydration was usually caused by a clinical condition and that one could remain adequately hydrated without drinking water," according to the Telegraph. "The EU is saying that this does not reduce the risk of dehydration and that is correct," Ratcliffe said. Babbledegookledygok. Morons-R-Us!

Are we surprised such a quote is coming from the Nutrition Society? What could be more fundamental to nutrition than the water solubility of nutrients which obviously require WATER to be carried throughout the body? Or the fact that roughly around 75% of the human body is made of water at any given moment? What do these geniuses think makes your blood a liquid in the first place?

Oh, let me guess. Here's the new entrance exam to the Nutrition Society:

Question: Which substance is liquid at room temperature and hydrates the human body?

A) Mercury
B) Water
C) Gasoline
D) None of the above

According to the Nutrition Society and the EFSA, the correct answer is D!!

Wow. Words escape me. I cannot quite come up with the proper collection of insults to express the pathetic expansion of zombie-brained stupidity that has infected the EU leadership these days... but as an American, I am duty-bound to try...

Meanwhile, I can't wait for the same brainless buffoons to officially declare that two plus two does not equal four... or that war is peace, slavery is freedom, and soylent green is the only nutrition you ever really need. We have reached a point of such runaway stupidity and brainless idiocy that I'm not even sure modern society can continue to function at all.

Even a one-eyed monkey could run the EU better than present-day EU politicians and bureaucrats. Why, you ask? Because at least the one-eyed monkey is only half-blind.

You should be drinking BRAWNDO, the Thirst Mutilator!

In the movie Idiocracy (which remains one of my favorite films of all time), water was banned in water fountains and agricultural irrigation, replaced by a sports drink called Brawndo - the Thirst Mutilator, a drink that's "got electrolytes!" When the crops started dying after being doused in Brawndo, nobody could figure out why. After all, Brawndo's "got electrolytes," right? So why wouldn't plants love it? (In the film, the Brawndo corporation actually purchased the FDA.)

Here's a hilarious YouTube video about Brawndo, which satirizes the total idiocy of modern sports drink advertising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq...

And yet, as idiotic as that Brawndo ad really is, it's nothing compared to the EU directive which now states that water cannot prevent dehydration. Apparently, water doesn't "got electrolytes."

What the EU needs is "European Brawndo!"

Bird-brained bureaucrats? That's giving them too much credit...

To call EFSA bureaucrats "bird-brained" might actually be a stretch (in their favor), because even my own free-range chickens are smart enough to know that water treats dehydration.

Yep, my birds are downright geniuses by EFSA standards, apparently, because every time they feel thirsty, they waddle right over to a water dish and lap up some water with their tiny bird tongues (yes, chickens have tiny bird tongues). Meanwhile, the finest institutional minds of the EU, after spending many months pondering the issue, could not even reach the simple realization my pea-brained chickens are born with: That the body has a fundamental need for water because water prevents dehydration.

Every animal innately knows this. Even mosquitoes have the brains to seek out water. So technically, EU bureaucrats are not even "mosquito-brained." It's almost as if you could put them all under anesthesia, surgically remove 99% of their brain matter, wake them back up, send them back to work for the EU government, and they would do just as good of a job!

It is at times like this that I am thankful my ancestors fought for America's independence. It's also a strong reminder that we must resist Codex Alimentarius (and other globalist control nonsense) or else we, too, may end up being told that water is medically useless.

Heck, the FDA already arrests people for selling raw milk. They actually run infiltration operations and spy rings (http://www.naturalnews.com/033428_F...) to catch people selling fresh milk. I guess if the FDA follows this EU directive, they might soon start arresting water smugglers!

Hey, buddy, wanna buy some water? Shhh! Keep it down. We're being watched... This is the stuff that treats dehydration! Yeah, I know, we can't say that too loudly... might get arrested. Shhh!

EU consumer alert: Stop drinking water!

The upshot of all this is that if you're an obedient, slave-minded citizen of the EU and you suffer from dehydration (i.e. you feel thirsty), DON'T DRINK WATER! You might run the risk of violating some EU directive that could get you interrogated by mosquito-brained bureaucrats. Instead, you should call your local emergency services and ask for a pharmaceutical -- or a surgical procedure of some sort -- to "medically" treat dehydration.

I wonder if this decision will cause all the nursing homes and retirement centers to stop serving water to the elderly now that the EFSA has officially pronounced water to have no health benefit whatsoever? I guess old people should only be hydrated with intravenous drips, huh? Sure would be good business for the brain-dead medical industry across the EU, which is looking for something important to do before they release the next pandemic and call for a national vaccine mandate.

I wonder if they will pull water fountains out of the public schools now? Will there now be public service announcements across Europe that urge moms to stop allowing their children to drink water? Maybe they should all be drinking Brawndo instead. The Thirst Mutilator! Approved by the EFSA to treat dehydration! "Ow my balls!" (That's a line from the movie.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy)

Can we just get back to some common sense here?

Common sense says that water prevents dehydration. It's built right into the word dehydration. "Hydration" means to have water. "De" means to lack it. So "de-hydration" means lacking water, by definition!

To declare that water does not treat dehydration is an admission that you are illiterate and cannot even achieve the most basic thought processes required for functioning in society.

Nowhere on this planet are more good people ruled by more complete idiots than in the European Union, where two plus two now equals five, and water is no longer recognized as a way to hydrate the human body.

Interestingly, the total idiocy of EU bureaucrats is about to collide with the laws of mathematics as the region's finances implode. Governments can lie about water, and they can lie about debt for a little while, but sooner or later, the laws of the universe catch up with you and the deniers are all exposed as fools or criminals (or both).

I for one think we should take all these EFSA boneheads and EU droolocrats and air-drop them butt-naked into the Death Valley Desert of North America, where they can rethink their opinion on whether water prevents dehydration. I'll bet you a million dollars that in just 72 hours, they would be begging for water. Wouldn't it be sadistic (but a little but fun) to stand there with a gallon of fresh spring water and refuse to give it to them, saying, "But you said water doesn't treat dehydration!"

Maybe they can all just eat sand.

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Posted by Neil Bartlett DHyp M.A.E.P.H at 11:11 CET

Updated: Monday, 21 November 2011 14:06 CET

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