Water is Nature's Gift

Water is Nature's Gift


It has been estimated that our bodies consist of over 600 trillion cells, each one containing seventy percent water. Now, without getting into a lot of medical mumbo jumbo, the basic fact is that nature never does anything without a reason, so that water is there for a purpose, and that purpose is to keep us healthy. It is now an undisputed fact that the quantity and quality of our water intake is one of the major contributors to how we feel and to the functioning of the control center, our brain.

Dead Cells and Toxins.

Dead cells and toxins must be flushed from the body or they will accumulate and cause disease. Place a rotten fish in a refrigerator and it will contaminate all the other food. This is exactly what happens when your body fails to cleanse itself of debris and toxins, it becomes contaminated and disease sets in. Your body relies on you to provide it with water to flush this debris out. Not alcohol, not soft drinks, not tea or coffee, not milk but water. Put dirty fuel in your car and it will misfire, cough and splutter. Drink anything except pristine water and chances are you will do much the same. There never has been or ever will be a better substance than pure water for internal cleansing.

The Immune System

The power of the immune system is located in the blood where protection is found from foreign pathogens (an agent that causes disease, especially a living micro-organism such as bacterium or fungi). Antibodies within the blood search out and destroy these pathogens attached to organisms within the body. When blood, which is ninety percent water, becomes contaminated with toxins the antibodies become sluggish and unable to function properly. By providing our bodies with the best possible water we enhance its ability to heal and repair. Modern medicine can indeed cure us of many ailments, however quite often it can only be a "quick fix." If the antibodies cannot do their job properly it is only a matter of time until another disease strikes.

How Much Water Do We Need?

Your lungs expel between two and four cups per day, another two to four cups are expelled through perspiration (not including exercise induced perspiration) and on average another six cups when you go to the toilet. You need a minimum of two liters per day. To some this may seem to be an impossible task, however, taken in small quantities throughout the day, it is not hard at all.

Coffee - Is it "Really" Good for You?

Coffee - Is it "Really" Good for You?

Have you heard the news? Coffee has antioxidants! Antioxidants have been studied to a great extent. The evidence indicates that antioxidants can potentially delay the aging process as well as protect the body against the development of age-related diseases.

If you read any medical articles that relate to these studies and you are not in the field of medicine, most likely you will get lost inside the information. This is where a problem in believing that certain foods containing antioxidants are good for you begins.

A very interesting study was conducted regarding coffee beans and the antioxidant benefits that could be obtained when consumed.

The article was very lengthy and had a great deal of medical terms and references in it. What the results proved was that although antioxidants did exist in coffee, when the beans were heated and processed, the benefits that can be obtained when drinking it are diminished.

This is easier to understand when you can consider how the testing was done.

Using lab rats to test the effects of the antioxidants in coffee is misleading. Especially when the coffee was not simply ground up and processed in the normal human fashion where we place the grounds into a coffee pot and run hot water over it resulting in a pot of hot liquid which is of course coffee.

The testing in the labs involved breaking down the coffee bean into different parts. For instance, the skin was removed from the coffee bean and tested as to the amount of antioxidants it contained.

Why would they do this you might ask?

Well, the skin is where the highest amount of antioxidants can be found. Yet, we have to ask the question, "Who drinks just the skin of the coffee bean?"

Another problem with thinking any positive results meant that coffee is good for us is the fact that after coffee is brewed, it looses a great deal of the antioxidants through the heating process.

After testing coffee in various forms and breaking it up into several different components, at the very end of an extremely long description of medically challenging terms and data, it became clear that the lab test did not in fact prove coffee to have any antioxidant benefits when consumed as a hot stimulating drink.

In fact at the end of this article the bottom line was that there was no proof at all that coffee was good for us due to any substantial amount of antioxidants after the brewing process.

So, the bottom line here is...

Rumors can start very fast and become thought of as fact if we do not do our own research.