Flooding your body with liquid dilutes

 Mighty Minerals & Food : part-6

Youfre dizzy and weak, and perspiration, now uncontrolled, no longer cools youbody temperature begins rising, and without relief cool shower, plus water, ginger ale, or fruit juice heat cramps to heat exhaustion to heat stroke But drinking too much water while exercising can also be hazardous to your Flooding your body with liquid dilutes the sodium in your bloodstream This may cause body tissues, including your brain, to swell, a conditio.
American College of Sports Medicine is to drink just enough water to maintain How much is that? Step on a scale such as the World Health Organizationfs handydandy, If youfre reading this while lying in bed exhausted by some variety of turista, the travelerfs Take a sip from one glass, then the other, and ounces of water to replace every pound lost in your one hourfs exercise You need extra water to eliminate the nitrogen compounds in protein is true of infants on high-protein formulas and adults on high-protein weightreducing See Chapter 7 to find out why too much protein may be so harmful

Youfre taking certain medications Because some medications interact with water and electrolytes, always ask whether you need extra water and electrolytes whenever your doctor prescribes Diuretics: These drugs increase the loss of sodium, potassium, and chloride Neomycin (an antibiotic): This medicine binds sodium into insoluble compounds, making it less available to your body Colchicine (an antigout drug): This medicine lowers your bodyfs absorption of sodium
When the Body Doesnft Get Enough Water Every day, each of us loses an amount of water equal to about 4 percent of our total weight. If we donft take in enough water to replace it, warning signals go off loud and clear Early on, when youfve lost just a little water, equal to about 1 percent of your If you ignore thirst, it grows more intense Your circulation slows as water seeps out of blood cells and blood plasma

And you experience a sense of emotional discomfort, a perception that things for a 130-pound woman; 7 pounds for a 170-pound man), youfre slightly nauseated, your skin is flushed, and youfre very, very tired circulating through your tissues, your hands and feet tingle, your head aches, your temperature rises, you breathe more quickly, and your pulse quickens After this, things go downhill more quickly percent of your body weight, your tongue swells, your kidneys start to fail, and youfre so dizzy that you canft stand on one foot with your eyes closed fact, you probably canft even try: Your muscles are in spasm When you lose enough water to equal 15 percent of your body weight, youfre deaf and pretty much unable to see out of eyes that are sunken and covered Your skin has shrunk, and your tongue has shriveled When youfve lost water equal to 20 percent of your body weight, your body is at the limit of its endurance Deprived of life-giving liquid, your skin cracks, and your organs grind to a Great Britain, Australia, or any place where English is the mother tongue:two molecules oxygen) is a queer duck, teachers explain each year to first-year chemistry For starters, water may be hard or soft, but these terms have nothing to do with how the Hard water has lots of minerals, particularly springs, picking up calcium carbonate as it soft water is surface water, the runoff from products that attract and remove the minerals.

What you get at the supermarket is another list Distilled water is tap water that has been distilled, or boiled until it turns to steam, which is then collected and condensed back into a liquid free of impurities, chemicals, to describe a liquid produced by ultrafiltration, cubes and serves as a flavor-free mixer steam iron, and itfs valuable for chemical Spring water is water from springs relatively
has fewer mineral particles and what some people describe as a gcleaner tasteh than Mineral water is water from deeper down; it picks up minerals on its journey upwards which makes it a natural antacid and a mild Still water is spring water that flows up to pushed to the top by naturally occurring Springlike or spring fresh are terms designed to make the water in the bottle seem more
terms arenft spring water; theyfre most likely to be filtered tap water, the liquid that flows
out when you turn on the faucet (see distilled Want to know how to put foods together to build a
healthful diet? Step right up to this part whose chapters are chock-full of guidelines from the Dietary Plus, you can read an explanation of why you get hungry and why you find some foods more appetizing an important factor in creating a nutritious (Hey, if it doesnft taste good, why would you want to Explaining how health and lifestyle affect appetite Because you need food to live, your body is no slouch at letting you know that itfs ready for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and maybe a few This chapter explains the signals your body uses to get you to the table, to the drive-through of your favorite fast-food joint, or to the The first is hunger; the second is appetite.

A physical reaction that includes chemical changes in your body related to a naturally low level of glucose in your blood several hours after eating An instinctive, protective mechanism that makes sure that your body gets the fuel it requires to function reasonably well smells good!) that
stimulates an involuntary physiological response The practical difference between hunger and appetite is this: When youfre After that, your appetite may lead you to eat two more hot dogs just because they look appealing or taste good In other words, appetite is the basis for the familiar saying: gYour eyes h Not to mention the well-known advertising slogan: gBet you canft eat just one. h Hey, these guys know their customers Your body does its best to create cycles of activity that parallel a 24-hour Like sleep, hunger occurs at pretty regular intervals, although your lifestyle may make it difficult to follow this natural pattern Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine in 1904 for his research on a fancy way of saying that you can train people to respond physically (or emotionally) to an object or stimulus that simply reminds them of something that they love or hate He began by ringing a bell each time he offered food to his laboratory dogs so that the dogs learned to associate the sound of the bell.

Then he rang the bell without offering the food, and the dogs responded as though food were For example, it can make a winning Olympic athlete teary at the sight of the to encourage you to buy their products: When you see a picture of a deep, dark, rich chocolate bar, doesnft your mouth start to water, and The clearest signals that your body wants food, right now, are the physical reactions from your stomach that let you know itfs definitely time to put If you do not fill it right away, it will issue an and their continual waves down the entire length of the intestine move food through your digestive tract.