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Other Ways To Get Your Daily Water

Confession time! I usually don’t like drinking just water. Iced tea, lemonade, drink mixes — sure! Plain water? Only if there’s nothing else. But our bodies need water, and lots of it. The recommended daily amount of water in your diet is between eight and eleven glasses; that’s a whopping sixty-four ounces or more! Some benefits of water: Keeps your skin soft and supple. Keeps you feeling energized, especially on hot days. Keeps your body running at its best. Remember — if you’re feeling thirsty, you are probably already on your way to being dehydrated. Keeping a water bottle at … Continue reading →

Bad News: Water-Drinking Contest Results in Death

A local radio station in Sacramento, California recently held a “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest that challenged participants to drink as much water as they could without going to the bathroom. One of the contestants, a woman named Jennifer Strange, 28 years old and the mother of three, died after participating in the contest in order to win a Nintendo Wii for her children. The coroner listed her cause of death as water intoxication. Water Intoxication Strange complained of a bad headache to her supervisor and left work early Friday just a few hours after participating in the … Continue reading →

10 Best Fitness Choices for 2006

It’s the time of year for making those top ten lists and as I wind up my workweek and look forward to this weekend, I thought what a better way to summarize the year and the work we’ve done here at Families.com and get in a little fun at the same time. Towards that effort, I have thought about some of the fitness choices we’ve discussed here in the Fitness Blog and I’ve thought about the New Year’s Resolutions we are all considering for next year and those that we planned for this year. In that light, here are my … Continue reading →

The Week in Review: September 9 –15

Welcome to our week in review. This week saw the fifth anniversary of September 11th and all the memorials, sadness and tales of heroism that entails. While it’s important to remember, it’s also equally important that we continue forward, making our world a better place so that hopefully none that come after us have to experience a similar tragedy. Here is your Week in Review for Fitness: September 9 We talked about Walking – is it better to do it incrementally or all in one go. There are multiple schools of thought on this, but as with all forms of … Continue reading →

Raspberry Water – A Cool and Refreshing Alternative

Do you drink the recommended 6 to 8 glasses of water a day? Do you drink a half-ounce of water per pound of body weight? Do you look at water and wrinkle your nose because water treatment has long since removed the refreshing taste of water for you? Would you rather drink a soda than a glass a water because frankly, soda tastes better despite the fact that you know it’s not as good for you as water is? Flavored water may be just the alternative you have been waiting for. I’ve found flavored water more and more often at … Continue reading →