Keep Hydrated with H2O

This week we focus on  water intake and how it can possibly effect your ability to have health problems in your daily lives.

1. You’re more likely to have health problems

Higher water intake has been linked to decreased chances of kidney stones, urinary and colon cancer, and heart attacks. Why make your heart work harder than it has to.

No water in the veins and the heart has to push harder to get the system working.

2. Your metabolism slows down

In independent studies for his 2010 book The Water Secret (Wiley), Dr. Howard Murad found that a person’s basal metabolic rate (the calories burned while at rest) speeds up as the body becomes more hydrated. Higher metabolism equals weight loss.

3. Harder to complete the tasks

At the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London in 2011, scientists found that the brains of dehydrated teenagers had shrunk away from their skulls, and that when asked to play a problem-solving game, they performed just as well as those who drank enough, but engaged more of their brains to do so. (Drinking water restores the brain to its normal size.)

4. You eat more

A 2010 study of 45 adults funded by the Institute for Public Health and Water Research found that those who drank two eight-ounce glasses of water before each meal consumed 75 to 90 fewer calories while eating.

(Over three months, water-drinkers lost an average of five pounds more than the dieters who were parched.) Some of my overweight clients do not hydrate well and struggle with weight loss.

5. You look more wrinkled

In researching his book, Dr. Murad also found that water plumps skin, fills in fine lines and wrinkles, and enlivens a dull complexion.

6. You’re in a bad mood

In 2009, researchers at Tufts University in Medford, MA, asked members of the men’s and women’s crew teams to engage in 60 to 75 minutes of high-impact aerobic exercise without drinking enough water first. Others were properly hydrated.

The dehydrated group was more likely to report feeling fatigued, confused, angry, depressed or tense.

Successful training has more to do with eating and hydrating properly before and after workouts than the actual workouts.

Sugar laced drinks need to be watered down or avoided as much as possible!!!!

Mark O’Neill and Shelley Donald are both registered Personal Trainers

http://www.oneillconditioning.com