WATER REMEDIES

In conclusion to the topic I've been discussing for a while now, emphasis will be placed on the healing properties of water for common illnesses. One of today's most overlooked natural cure is the healing power of water.

Water remedies that foggy feeling when you wake up. Upon rising in the morning head straight to the kitchen and drink a full glass of pure, clean water. Do this before that cup of coffee, hopefully its tea but regardless, drink that glass of water before your regular morning beverage.

Ever notice that your urine is a darker colour in the morning? Dark urine is a sign of dehydration whether it's morning, noon or night. Optimally, urine should be light yellow or straw-coloured although if you're taking a vitamin B supplement the colour may be a bright fluorescent yellow as your body excretes the excess it cannot use. If your urine is continually highly discoloured even after rehydrating (drinking water) repeatedly, it is advised that you seek the advise of a doctor. Dehydration itself can cause a multitude of symptoms which include headaches, muscle/joint pain, heartburn, fatigue and even depression. Are you surprised to know that water cures all these?

Everyone knows that the human body is made of 60 to 70% water but did you also know that the brain is said to be 80% water? That our bones are 10 to 15% water? Knowing this, doesn't it make it perfect sense that water is vital in keeping your whole system balanced?

Water is a natural conductor of energy so when those hunger pangs, yawns and fatigue comes calling...yep, a glass of water should do the trick! The healing power of water remedies makes perfect sense. Think  about it! Our bodies are about 70% water, our lungs are 90% water, our brains are 80% water, our blood is 83% and even our bones are 10% water. Every function of our body depends on clean water to function and operate effectively.

Dehydration is much more common than you would guess especially in in Sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, most people prefer to reach for a bottle of soft drink than a glass of chilled water at the detriment of their health but NOTHING can replace a good, clean water for healing and satisfaction. Your body needs to process all the sugar and other substances before it can make any use of the little water content in your alternative beverage for it's metabolism.

Water remedies many ailments! Dehydration can cause a myriad of diseases including many that may surprise you!

• Heartburn

• Depression

• Back and joint pain

• Arthritis

• Asthma

• High Blood Pressure

• Premature Ageing

• Wrinkles

• Skin Problems

• Fatigue

• ADHD ( Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)

And the list is endless...

How much healing water should one drink?

A general rule of thumb is to divide your body weight in half and that is how many ounces of water you should drink in a day. So if your weight is 150 pounds (68kg) your water intake should be around 75 ounces (2.2 litres) per day. The old adage about drinking 8, eight ounce glasses a day is pretty average. Sound like too much? Well, 8 ounce gasses is equal to four 16 ounce cans of coke! Spread that out through the day and it really that much when you consider all the benefits of water!

Here's a great home remedy to restore your body's pH after being dehydrated.

Mix 1 tablespoon of organic apple cider with one tablespoon honey. Add a pinch of salt then fill glass with warm or room temperature water. Chug-a_lug! This is a great hangover remedy too!

And this bring us to the concluding part of "Water: The Holistic Approach". I do hope you have gained one or two things from this series?
Your questions, opinions and suggestions would be immensely appreciated.

Oke Oluwatimilehin J.
okeflex360@yahoo.com
@timi0301
whatsapp- +234-8142-798-776

WATER: THE HOLISTIC APPROACH - The relevance of water in the body

Our bodies are made up of between 50% and 70% water. Drinking water helps us maintain what we are biologically.

Water flushes out the toxins in our body. On both a systemic level and on a cellular level, water helps flush out toxins from our body thereby saving us from numerous ailments.

When you fail to drink water and you consequently fail to flush your system as effectively as you should. The less you flush the more you leave your body at risk of diseases. You are at greater risk of kidney and gall stones.

Drinking  sufficient water and having proper electrolytes provide the means to have optimal brain operation. Water and salt are the original 3 Hour Energy Drink.

Water provides hydro-electric energy in our cells. Water, like ADP, is one of the fuels that our cells use for its operational use both anabolism and catabolism.

Water transports essential electrolytes throughout our bodies and in and out of our cells. In addition to being a fuel, water transports in and out, the essential products the cells needs or produces.

Failure to properly hydrate (drink water) your body can put you at greater risk of heart attack. Even if you are young, and you begin to engage in sports, you may be at greater risk of a heart attack without proper hydration.

Water helps to maintain healthy body weight by increasing metabolism and regulating appetite. (More explanation on this point would be given under obesity).

Water leads to increased energy levels. The most common cause of daytime fatigue is actually mild dehydration.

Drinking adequate amounts of water can decrease the risk of certain types of cancers, including colon cancer, bladder cancer and breast cancer.

Drinking Water can significantly reduce joint/ or back pain. Provides enough lubricants in the joints (synovial fluid).

Water can prevent and alleviate headaches. Studies have revealed that water can cure about 50% of headaches.

Water can naturally moisturize the skin and ensure proper cellular formation underneath layers of skin to keep it healthy and a glowing appearance.

Water aids digestion process and prevents constipation. Drink enough water before and after each meals.

A person can survive for about a month without food but only about a week without water.

The biological importance of water is too numerous to be listed in a single piece of writing. It's roles and importance are essential for the normal functioning human beings. Next time, we shall have the concluding part of this series. I'd encourage you not to miss it. The holistic approach, water remedies and cure, water therapy.

Till next time, stay healthy because health is wealth.

Timilehin Oke
+234-8142-798-776
Okeflex360@yahoo.com

WATER: THE HOLISTIC APPROACH. Part A

Have you ever imagined a world without water? Please take a moment to reflect on this question. Apparently, no form of life would exist. The plants cannot manufacture their foods, the animals can't survive as well. It's simply unimaginable! A world without water will simply be catastrophic.

Therefore, the roles of water, it's significance, importance, properties, uses, facts and remedies would be considered in the next couple of writings. Basically, I'll attune my writings on the holistic effects of water as it concerns human health for our better understanding and application.

Water can exist in the three states of matter: liquid, solid (ice) and gas (invisible water vapor in the air). Limitless to say, water can also exist as snow, fog and dew. Clouds are accumulated water droplets that are condensed from water vapor in the atmosphere.

Water constitutes between 71-75% of the earth's surface. It forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans and rain. It is a major constituent of the fluids in living things. It contains one atom of Oxygen and two atoms of Hydrogen that are covalently bonded together.

Briefly, the physical and chemical properties of water includes the following:

• Water is liquid at standard temperature and pressure.
• It is tasteless, odorless and colorless ( Although, a slight tint of blue hue can be noticed in large volume of water).
• It is transparent in visible electromagnetic spectrum.
• Water is a polar molecule with an electrical dipole moment.
• A good polar solvent, also referred to as universal solvent.
• Boiling point of water is 100 degrees Celsius at sea level ( B.P varies with altitude and below sea level) . The freezing point of water is 0 degrees Celsius.
• Water is neither acidic nor basic, it is neutral. Hence, it has a pH of 7.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WATER

• Roughly 70% of an adult's body is made up of water.
• Water accounts for approximately 80% of an infant's body weight.  
• A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water per day.
• The earth is a closed system, similar to a terrarium, meaning it rarely loses or gains extra matte. The same water that existed on the earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
• The total amount of water on earth is about 326 million cubic miles of water.
• Of all the water on earth, humans can use only about three tents of a percent of this water. Such useable water is found in underground water equifiers, rivers, and fresh water lakes, 

• By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1% of its total water water amount.

With the proper hydration and electrolytes, your body is less likely to have a heart attack or stroke. The science suggests that even if you are having a heart attack or stroke, by taking water and salt, it may be possible to reverse the stroke and stop the heart attack. The uses of water can range from the everyday ordinary use to important life saving panacea. Till tomorrow when we'll delve more into the holistic uses of water.

Stay blessed, remember health is wealth

Food for thought

This is a master piece. If you have not read it take the time to read it now. If you have read it take time to read it again!
GEORGE CARLIN (His wife recently died....)

Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent...and so very appropriate.

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. An embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If you don't send this to other people....Who cares?

George Carlin

Cheers!

QUOTES THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Dear Esteemed Reader,
    Below is a list of quotes that could potentially awake the genius in you and spur you into action. These quotes are from men who have excelled well in their various fields.

• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
• Fall seven times and stand up eight.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.  
• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
• Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou
•  Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama
• If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg
• First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle
• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
• I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale
• You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky
• I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan
• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart
• Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth
• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone
• The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now. –Bill Cosby
• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon
• We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain
• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll
• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker
• The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha
• The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb
• An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates
• Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs
• Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi
• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey
• Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso
• You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus
• I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

Acne

Whether you call them blemishes, pimples, or zits, most of us experience mild acne at some point in our lives. More often a problem in the teen years, acne vulgaris, as it’s known medically, starts when skin pores become blocked by excess oil and dead skin cells. Some people have severe acne resulting in hundreds of pimples across the face, chest, and back, although many treatments can help.

Pimples have long been the bane of teenage existence, but pediatricians say there is now enough evidence on effective treatments to put out the first guidelines on battling acne in children.
There is a range of medications that can clear up even severe cases of acne, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Writing in the May issue of its journal Pediatrics, the group throws its support behind new guidelines from the American Acne and Rosacea Society that detail how to treat acne in children and teens of all ages.
That “all ages” part is important because acne is becoming more and more common in pre-teens, too, said Dr. Lawrence Eichenfield, the lead author of the AAP report. One study of 9- and 10-year-old girls found that more than three-quarters had pimples.
It’s thought that it may be because boys and girls are, on average, starting puberty earlier compared with past generations, said Eichenfield, a pediatric dermatologist at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.
According to the AAP, mild acne often can be tackled with over-the-counter fixes. Washes, lotions and other products containing benzoyl peroxide are the best studied, and the best place to start, the group said.
“It’s a pretty effective agent, especially for mild acne,” Eichenfield said. Benzoyl peroxide is also the most common ingredient in over-the-counter acne fighters. Another common one is salicylic acid, but there has not been much research on it. When it has been tested head-to-head against benzoyl peroxide, Eichenfield said, the latter has won out.
If over-the-counter products do not do the job, the next step could be topical retinoids — prescription medications like Retin-A, Avita and Differin. They are vitamin A derivatives and work by speeding up skin cell turnover, which helps unclog pores.
The main side effects of all the topical treatments are skin irritation and dryness, the AAP said.
If the acne is moderate to severe, oral antibiotics could be added to the mix because bacteria that live on the skin play a role in acne. When pores become clogged with oil and skin cells, bacteria can grow in the pore and cause inflammation. Antibiotics help by killing bacteria and soothing inflammation.
But, Eichenfield said, “it’s important to use antibiotics appropriately.” One reason is because acne-causing bacteria have become less sensitive to common antibiotics in the past couple decades, due to widespread use of the drugs.
Another is that antibiotics can have side effects, such as stomach upset, dizziness and, in girls, yeast infections.
When acne is severe and other treatments have failed, the AAP said, doctors and parents might consider the prescription drug isotretinoin — brand-names including Roaccutane (formerly known as Accutane) and Claravis.
The drug is very effective, but it can cause birth defects, so girls and women have to use birth control and get regular pregnancy tests if they go on the medication. Isotretinoin also has been linked to inflammatory bowel disease, depression and suicidal thoughts in some users — although it’s not clear the drug is to blame, the AAP said. (Severe acne itself can cause depression and suicidal thoughts, for example.)
Dr. David Pariser, a dermatologist not involved in the recommendations, said they are “based on sound evidence” and reflect the “best practices” in battling acne.
When should parents consider taking their child to a doctor for acne treatment? It depends on how severe the problem is, and how bothered the child is, said Pariser, who sits on the board of directors of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Some kids can deal with skin eruptions, but Pariser said he sees others who refuse to leave the house.
Both he and Eichenfield said it’s important to dispel kids’ (and sometimes parents’) acne myths. “Acne is not caused by dirt or poor hygiene,” Eichenfield said, and harshly scrubbing your face will probably make the situation worse.
It’s best to wash your face gently twice a day, with a soap-free pH-balanced cleanser, the AAP said. Facial toners — which commonly come in pre-packaged acne regimens — can help clear away oil. But the group suggested going easy on toners, since they can irritate the skin.
And what about food? “The medical community has swung back and forth on that over the years,” Pariser said. Years ago, people thought that certain foods, like chocolate, sugar and iodine, promoted breakouts, but studies starting in the late 1960s failed to confirm that.
“The idea that food plays a role became relegated to myth,” Eichenfield said. But recently, he added, some researchers have been revisiting the issue. There is some evidence that a sugary diet may promote acne, for example. But for now, it’s not clear whether any diet changes will actually help keep kids’ skin clear, Eichenfield said.

The bottom line, he said, is that many treatment options are available. “There’s no reason that children have to live with acne that is severe and troubling to them,” he said.

WELCOME TO HEALTHERTAINMENT

I looked across Africa and Nigeria in particular, so many blogs on entertainment, gossips and breaking news.

Only little effort is placed on our very reason of existence cum "health is wealth". As the popular saying goes, our very reason of existence is based on the state of our well being.

It is imperative to note the following:

In 2012, almost 5 million (73% of all under-five deaths) occurred within the first year of life. The risk of a child dying before completing the first year of age was highest in the WHO African region (63 per 1000 live births), about six times higher than that in the WHO European region (10 per 1000 live births)globally, the infant mortality rate has decreased from an estimated rate of 63 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 35 deaths per 1000 live births in 2012. Annual infant deaths have declined from 8.9 million in 1990 to 4.8 million in 2012. 

 Its on this note, my colleagues and I have taken up a mandate of using the social media to our advantage, informing you about causes and prevention of diseases, essential health tips and pharmacological information.

We'll be obliged to answer your questions professionally, treat your comments and concerns unbiasedly. Have a blessed weekend ahead.

Remember, health is wealth.