Symptoms of dehydration
& contaminated water
Water news & current events, September 2009
Summaries of articles on dehydration symptoms, contaminated water & healthy hydration from September ‘09. Page 1 follows
There are many news reports on the effects of dehydration and incidence and effects of contaminated water. We stay on top of them all.Be informed. Stay assured. Stay current with selected articles from September, 2009. Items on specifically include the following topics: symptoms of dehydration, healthy hydration, water contamination, link between water and weight loss and water pollution.
1) How to cut weight and die The article explains how dehydration is actually courted by athletes in an effort to lose weight. Of course we know that the best way to lose excess water is to drink more water. Cutting back on fluids, including water, will produce some temporary weight loss. But even if the strategy is meant to just make some weight it is unhealthy and possibly dangerous to follow strategy. For one thing, it may take days to get back to the previous level of healthy hydration. A great deal of water can be lost very quickly. However, dehydrating fully takes much longer. When you consider the damaging effects dehydration symptoms can have on health and especially its immediate effects on sports performance it is clear that dehydrating yourself to lose weight is incredibly misguided. Excerpt from article and link to, follows. Dehydration is one of the most popular ways to lose weight among athletes – particularly in those sports where weight classes are required such as boxing, wrestling, martial arts, weightlifting, and powerlifting. Millions of athletes around the world engage in this destructive form of weight loss just to “make weight” without regard to the potential consequences. Click for more on this misuse of dehydration symptoms 2) Male Breast Cancer Cases Potentially Linked to Contaminated Water on Marine Base This problem has been touched on in other news items. Here the contaminated water has been linked to rare breast cancer in males. Read excerpt that follows and link to full article below. Male breast cancer is extremely rare. In fact, according to the American Cancer Society only 1,900 male breast cancer cases will be diagnosed this year, compared with 192,000 cases in women...Epidemiologists began to study the Camp Lejeune (Marines)water, although they still don’t know if they can actually prove that the water caused the male breast cancer. Click for full article on male breast cancer and contaminated water 3) Drink Water Tucson-and Everyone Else! The following article highlights the importance of adequate, healthy hydration especially in a place like Arizona (U.S.) where the environment tends to dehydrate. Excerpt follows as does the link to full article. I live in Arizona and dehydration is very common here because people simply do not consume enough water. In fact, 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. Truth is good health depends on good hydration. They say we need to drink approximately half our body weight in ounces minimum each day. So if you weighted 140 pounds, then you would need to drink 70 ounces of water. That seems simple enough to remember. Why is water so important to not only us desert dwellers in Arizona but for the human body in general? Well if you look at the human body it is like a machine, and like any machine in order to work properly, it needs lubrication. Water is the lubrication for the human machine. Water also has the ability to cool the body down so the human machine does not overheat. Click for full article on healthy hydration in Arizona 4) Faeces found in EC tap water Read the full article if you have the stomach for it. Click for feces contamination in tap water 5) Our PCBs: Forgotten but not gone Very powerful water contaminants are found about Indiana University. Maybe IU could offer a course titled Water 101 to freshmen. Could you think of many other courses that could be as helpful? Just use Healthy water as source material and save students hundreds of dollars in books. Excerpt follows, then link. If you moved to Bloomington within the last 25 years or so, you might not have heard about the PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) debacle in Bloomington and the surrounding area. It's not the kind of information that IU gives its incoming freshmen during orientation or that realtors and landlords bring up with their prospective home buyers and tenants. Six PCB Superfund sites lie within 20 miles of the Courthouse Square. And PCBs cause cancer, neurologic disorders, endocrine system disruption, reproductive problems and birth defects in people and nonhuman animals. Often associated with PCBs are other chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as dioxin and furans. Dioxin is the most powerful chemical carcinogen known. It's second only to radiation as the most potent carcinogen discovered to date. It was used in the Vietnam War as a defoliant called Agent Orange. Click for entire article on PCBs and related contaminants in water in Indiana 6) Water director faces Warren Town Council It’s hopeful when small town politics include water issues. Following is an excerpt and link to article on one town’s struggles with healthy water. Warren town councilors asked (BCWA) Bristol County Water Authority Executive Director Pasquale DeLise to explain to residents why there was a breach in water purity and what steps the agency is taking to provide clean water to the region during a Tuesday night meeting. On Sunday, a water sample taken from a Barrington sink tested positive for E. coli bacteria. On Tuesday morning, an advisory to boil water before consumption was issued by the state. Click for more on contaminated water and politics 7) Water good for health, weight loss Just another item on the importance of water. It’s heartening to see such general articles sprouting up in many publications. Click for entire item on water and weight loss and for health 8) Sorry, organic isn't enough Well, the title really spells it out. What good is organic food and other healthy habits if you are combining same with lots of unhealthy water? Excerpt from article and link follows Dr. F. Batmanghelidj, a pioneering medical doctor, has shown how dehydration is the #1 health problem in the world and the biggest contributer to disease. Drugs and other treatments make a person more dehydrated and he spent the rest of his life communicating this information to the public. Click for entire article on the importance of healthy water and hydration 9) China’s Dirty Water Leads to Protests, Some Reform An article on clashes in China between industry citizens concerned with water pollution. Following is excerpt of article and link to entire item. More than two weeks after demonstrators peacefully protested pollution in China’s Fujian province, 10,000 villagers and some 2,000 riot police in the area violently clashed over the rancid effluent and foul smells from a wastewater treatment plant. The protest this month is the latest confrontation in a wave of social unrest over industrial practices that has drawn attention to some of the world’s dirtiest rivers and lakes and led to public calls for China to dramatically strengthen environmental safeguards. Click for entire article on water pollution in China and public demonstrations 10) Investigation: Contamination from Plant May Endanger Sarpy Water Supply Madonna sang that we live in a “material world” but really, it’s more like we live in a chemical world. Following is an article on chemicals in water and how they can spread to endanger health in alarming proportions. …The problem runs beyond the contaminated water at the Sands Mobile Home Park. The question now is if the same chemicals got into the water here where Platte and Missouri rivers merge. Twelve years later a few miles down the road from plant, environmentalists say the answer is probably 'yes.' Click for entire item on chemicals, contaminants in water
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