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Show Drink Up.. Drink Up You need to drink at least 4 eight-ounce eight-ounce glasses of water, or its equivalent through other beverages, to get the water the body requires. Water is essential to the body's vital functions. It's essential to keep body temperature under control, clean impurities from the body, and maintain blood circulation and life. A slice of lime or lemon makes water an attractive beverage if you have an aversion to plain waer. NIGHT SIGHT Vision improves when you wait a few minutes in the dark before driving after leaving a lighted building. Vision improves dramatically if the driver waits in the dark two or three minutes. According to British researchers, it takes as long as 15 minutes to gain the best vision on a dark night. Cigarette Link For the first time, direct microscopic micros-copic evidence has been developed by researchers at UCLA pointing to cigarette smoke as a causal factor in strokes, heart attacks, and arteriosclerosis. Using an electron microscope, researchers have taken pictures pic-tures showing crater information, invasion of arterial walls, and scarring of arteries due to exposure to tobacco smoke, equal to the smoking of two packs of cigarettes a day. HOTS AND Tots A pregnant woman should avoid a hot tub. Researchers at the University of Washington point to the risk of birth defects from excess heat. The hyperthermia danger seems to be especially greatest between the third and eighth week of pregnancy; hence, the warning to women who think they might be pregnant. Balancing Resistance and Endurance Lean muscles mus-cles use energy even at rest, but body fat uses very little energy. Muscle tone decreases after several years without exercise. If body weight remains the same, fat may have replaced muscle mass and a person's energy requirement at rest may be reduced significantly. If a person continues to consume the same amount of food without exercise, the excess calories will be converted to fat. A solution is an exercise program that involves working muscles against resistance. Walking up stairs, sit-ups and other exercises put demand on muscles, build mus- . cle tone and help use up the excess calories. THE COLD War Combatting colds successfully can be helped by raising room humidity according to Canadian researchers. Studies of schools over a ten year period revealed that dry indoor air may be a factor in increased colds during times when outdoor temperatures drop. An effective test to determine if a house is humid enough is when windows are just a little misty. Rubbing Back A back rub can be an effective pain reliever. Some researchers believe that a simple back rub stimulates an area in the brain that produces endorphins, the natural substances the body produces pro-duces to block pain. Heavy massage of niuscles is not necessary. A back rub can be effective in reducing reduc-ing pain with mere gentle strokes by lubricated palms. CRASH DIETS and Teenage Girls Teenage girls are sometimes prone to go on crash diets to achieve a thin look. Doctors warn against crash diets at any age, but they're particularly dangerous during teenage teen-age years of rapid growth. Teenage crash diets can bring on long-term health problems, according to nutrition authorities. The exercise Pill Women using oral contraceptives contracep-tives can lower the risk of blood clots by doing at least 90 minutes of vigorous exercise each weak. This is the conclusion of a blood protein and clot formation study reported by Duke University researchers. TURNING INTO Trouble Traffic "right-turn-on-red" laws are time-savers. But they increase the accident hazard to pedestrians and vehicles when drivers assume the right-of-way and fail to check cross street traffic or pedestrians. The increased incidence in-cidence of right-turn accidents has caused the National Na-tional Highway Traffic Safety Administration to seek measures to reduce the risk of "righ-turn-on-red" without the corresponding reduction in energy and time-saving advantages. |
