Skip to main content

Best ways to beat the heat and stay hydrated

Image
By

Dehydration is the number one cause of day time fatigue, but how do you know when you’re dehydrated? By the time you feel thirsty, you’ve already lost between 1-2% of your body’s total water content!Signs and symptoms of dehydration include dry mouth, dry eyes, muscle cramping, constipation, fatigue, and headaches, to name just a few. However, there are steps you can take to make sure you don’t become dehydrated.
Coconut Water
For a twist on ordinary tap or bottled water give coconut water a try.  Coconut water is low in calories, fat-free, cholesterol-free and a great source of vitamins and minerals – especially potassium, which helps replenish all those electrolytes you lose when you sweat. Taste-wise, coconut water is a slightly nutty-sweet drink that’s refreshing served over ice and it’s delicious with a splash of fruit juice.

Seltzer
When it’s baking hot outside youcan’t beat  the bubbly coolness of seltzer, which  has  zero calories  and sodium, and comes in a variety of flavors. What’s great about seltzer is you can enjoy it simply or jazz it up with a splash of 100-percent fruit juice, a spring of mint or herb, or some fresh fruit slices. For dieters seltzer can be the perfect no-cal mixer for skinny cocktails. Be sure to check the label on flavored seltzers though because some brands contain caloric sweeteners.


Fresh Fruit
Not all thirst quenchers are poured.  Many of your favorite summer fruits contain at least 90 percent water and with each juicy bite you also get a boost of vitamins and minerals. Watermelon for example is 92 percent water and each slice contains essential hydrating salts, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Raspberries, blueberries and blackberries all contain about 85 percent water and each is a great source of healthy fiber. Grapefruit is about 90 percent water, and pink and red varieties are especially nutritious, containing phytonutrients, vitamins C and A, as well as the cancer-fighting antioxidant lycopene.

Veggies
Like fruit many summer vegetables rank among nature’s best thirst quenchers: Cucumber holds first place with its 97 percent water content. Tomatoes are a close second consisting of about 95 percent water -whether you go for the big meaty ones or bite-sized grape and cherry varieties.  All shades of bell peppers are mainly water, but green peppers top the list containing 94 percent water and in a one cup serving you also get 100 percent of your daily value of vitamin C.


Low-Fat Milk and Yogurt
Low-fat dairy products such as low-fat milk and yogurt contain 90 percent and 85 percent waterrespectively. Not only do these foods help you stay hydrated, they’re also a great source of protein, phosphorus, potassium, and the vitamins A and D – all good reasons to get your recommended three cups a day.





via-foxnews
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Team Work - Meaning and Tips for better Team Work

By
A single brain is not always capable of making key decisions on its own. To come up with an efficient solution, an individual requires the help and advice of others. A team is established when individuals get together on a common platform with the common goal of completing a task. To guarantee optimum compatibility, team members should ideally come from similar backgrounds and have a single aim. To provide their best, the team members must complement each other and function as a single unit in tight cooperation. "There is no I in Team Work," as the saying goes, and each member must put the needs of his team first. Personal interests must take a second seat. Any team's performance is directly proportionate to the relationship between its members and their combined efforts. What is the definition of teamwork? Teamwork is defined as the sum of each team member's efforts toward the fulfilment of the team's goal. In other words, any team's backbone is its ability t
Post a Comment
Read more

Scientists discover a new theory / The fundamental property of light – 150 years after Maxwell

By
Light plays a vital role in our everyday lives and technologies based on light are all around us. So we might expect that our understanding of light is pretty settled. But scientists have just uncovered a new fundamental property of light that gives new insight into the 150-year-old classical theory of electromagnetism and which could lead to applications manipulating light at the nanoscale. It is unusual for a pure-theory physics paper to make it into the journal Science. So when one does, it’s worth a closer look. In the new study, researchers bring together one of physics' most venerable set of equations – those of James Clerk’s Maxwell’s famous theory of light – with one of the hot topics in modern solid-state physics: the quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators . To understand what the fuss is about, let’s first consider the behaviour of electrons in the quantum spin Hall effect. Electrons possess an intrinsic spin as if they were tiny spinning-tops,
Post a Comment
Read more

19 Types Of Content Writing Services For Your Business

By
  It’s hard to know which type of content writing service is the best for your business.  There are so many  different types of content writing services  out there that it’s easy to get confused. You end up wondering if you’re choosing the right one for you. In this post, we’ll get rid of this confusion, once and for all. I’m going to list out the different kinds of writing services you could use.  By the end of this article, you’ll know whether you need a copywriter, a content writer, or a social media marketer and how they can help you achieve your business goals. This post is also useful for writers who want to hone their writing skills in a specific area. Let’s dive in and learn what types of content writing services exist and when you should use them. (Bonus – if you want to  hire the top 1%  of writers, go to the bottom to learn how). Types of Content Writing Services As we go through the list of content writing services, you will find that many of them overlap. That’s perfectly
Post a Comment
Read more