Plain Water Is A Great Health Food

Unfortunately these days, the marketing of thousands of commercial alternatives to water, which often contain harmful substances such as artificial sweetener aspartame and harmful additives, have taken people away from lovely plain water.

Water is the best health drink and is the best thirst-quencher.

So in what ways can water consumption be good for you?

Drink For Your Intestines

Constipation can result if you do not take enough water or fluids. This problem is compounded in those who are very old or very young. Water regulation takes place in the colon and if there is not enough water in your body, the colon will take it from the waste material, leaving your stool to be hard.

Having a sufficient amount of water intake will prevent such problems. If you eat foods that are high in fibre, then you should have some water along with that meal, as water will be needed by the fibre for it to pass through the colon effectively.

Drink For Your Brain

Dehydration leads to impairments in brain function and can lead you to lack concentration and focus. You will notice this in hot weather when you lose water through sweat or after heavy exercise. Give your water and it will lead to a healthier, effective brain.

Drink to Beat the Fever and the Cold

The fever causes you to lose water through sweat and this causes dehydration of the brain as well as the body. When you have a cold, a lot of water is lost from your nose and breathing apparatus causing them to feel dry.

By drinking sufficient water the mucous membranes in these areas remain moist leading to the inflammation healing quicker.

You may notice that you have a blocked nose. This is because dehydration caused by lack of water interferes with oscillation caused by the hair filaments in the nose, not allowing the mucus to move along and flush the germs out. Thus, the mucus will collect in the nose and sinuses and attract more bacteria.

By keeping the mucus membranes moist you prevent these blockages and in turn prevent them from getting stuck in the lower air passage. Once it reaches their (taking any bacteria along with it), it is difficult to cough it out. Water is one of the best remedies for colds.

How Much Water?

Adults need around 8 glasses of water (between 1/2 to 3/4 ounces per pound of body weight), though this can vary based on the a number of factors including exercise and illness.

Infants need twice that amount which they get in the form of milk.

How can you get into the habit of drinking water?

One way is to drink two glasses of water when you wake up in the morning. Delay your breakfast to about three-quarters to an hour later. Drink another glass or two an hour before going to sleep. And the rest you can spread out through the day. If you have a diet consisting of lots of vegetables and fruit, you will be getting a lot of water that way too and would not really need to have water along with your meals.

You should avoid caffeine containing drinks. You should avoid so called “fruit drinks” which are nothing but sugar (corn-syrup) and water, with a tiny bit of fruit flavour and additives. If you drink juice try to get 100% pressed juices that have no additives or preservatives. Or better still get your own juicer and have fresh juice.

The message here is: Get away from those horrible “fruit juices” and get back to lovely old plain water if you want to improve your health. Eating whole fruit is best, if not make your own fresh juice, and if not buy only 100% pure (pressed) juice. Don’t settle for the junk that is less than this.

Hemp is one of the most "Human friendly" plants

I will provide nothing but the facts, so that we the people can make intelligent decisions about a subject the government clouds up with untruthfulness. Please read my petition and even though you might not smoke Cannabis, please observe with an open mind about all the beneficial qualities that have nothing to do with smoking, but are currently still as illegal. 


FACT 

· Deaths per year resulting from alcohol: 100,000 
· Deaths per year resulting from tobacco: 430,000 
· Deaths per year resulting from aspirin: 180- 1000 
· Deaths per year resulting from legal drugs: 106,000 
· Deaths that have ever occurred in direct result of Cannabis: 0 (that’s right zero) 

FACT 

· Farming 6% of the continental U.S. acreage with biomass crops (Hemp) would provide all of America’s Energy needs. 
· Biomass can be converted into methane, methanol, or gasoline (which could eliminate our ties with the Middle East) at a cost comparable to petroleum and hemp is much better for the environment. 
· Hemp fuel burns clean. Petroleum causes acid rain due to sulfur pollution. 
· The use of Hemp Fuel does not contribute to global warming 

FACT 

· Hemp seed can be pressed into nutritious oil, which contains the highest amount of fatty acids in the plant kingdom. Essential oils are responsible for our immune system responses, and can clear the arteries of cholesterol and plaque. 
· The byproduct of pressing the oil from hemp seed is a high quality protein seed cake. It can be used to bake into cakes, breads and casseroles. Hemp seed protein is one of mankind’s finest, most complete, and available-to-the body vegetable proteins. 
· A Vegan or vegetarian can get all of the days required protein from a handful of hemp seed. 

FACT 

· Hemp is the oldest cultivated fiber plant in the world. 
· Low-THC fiber hemp varieties developed by the French and others have been available for over 20 years. It is impossible to get high from fiber hemp. Over 600,000 acres of hemp is grown worldwide with no misuse problem. 
· One acre of hemp can produce as much usable fiber as 4 acres of trees or two acres of cotton. 
· Trees cut down take 50-500 years to grow, while hemp can be cultivated in as little as 100 days and can yield 4 times more paper over a 20 year period. 
· Until 1883, from 75-90% of all paper in the world was made with cannabis hemp fiber including that for books, Bibles, maps, paper money, stocks and bonds, newspapers, etc. 
· Hemp paper is longer lasting than wood pulp, stronger, acid-free, and chlorine free (Chlorine is estimated to cause up to 10% of all Cancers). 
· Hemp paper can be recycled 7 times, wood pulp 4 times. 
· Hemp particleboard may be up to 2 times stronger than wood particleboard and holds nails better. 
· Hemp is a softer, warmer, and more water absorbent, than cotton and doesn’t stretch out. 
· Half of the U.S. pesticides are used to treat cotton, while hemp has a natural pesticide. 

FACT 

· Almost any product that can be made from wood, cotton, or petroleum (including plastics) can be made from hemp. There are 25,000 known uses for hemp. 
· For thousands of years virtually all good paints and varnishes were made with hemp seed oil and/or linseed oil. 
· One acre of hemp produces as much cellulose fiber pulp as 4.1 acres of trees, making hemp a perfect material to replace trees for pressed board, particle board, and concrete construction molds. 
· Heating and compressing plant fibers can create a practical, inexpensive, fire-resistant constructions material with excellent thermal and sound-insulating qualities. 
· In 1941 Henry Ford built a plastic car made of fiber from hemp and wheat straw. Hemp is biodegradable, as synthetic plastic is not. 

FACT 

· Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. 

Thank you for reading my petition; I know we are a majority so lets stand up to make the change. As to date 36 states have shown interest into taking action towards a more relaxed Medicinal Marijuana program. Lets take it to the next step and start reaping these environment saving byproducts as well. 

“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. WE must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.” Dr. Martin Luther King. 

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http://www.thehia.org/hempfacts.htm 
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http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/fact1_10.htm 
http://www.kentuckyhemp.com/library/facts.html 
http://www.globalhemp.com/Archives/FAQ/industrial_hemp_facts.html

Hurt By the One You Love

In the simplest terms, emotional abuse is defined as behaviour and language designed to degrade or humiliate individuals by attacking their self-value or personality. While a normal couple may disagree about how to spend money, for example, an emotinal abuser will make his partner or spouse feel as tough she’s too stupid to understand the intricasies of finances. It can range from verbal abuse – yelling, blaming, shaming and name calling – to isolation, intimidation and threats. Such behaviours make victims feel alone and unimportant. Although there are few firm statistic on emotional abuse’s prevalence among couples, expert say as many as two-thirds experience it, one-third of them chronically. It effects can be devastating: Depression, anxiety and destroyed self –esteem. It’s very erosive, wether it’s overt or covert, the abuse negates a woman’s very being.

Finding The Escape Hatch.
Breaking up with an emotionally abusive partner or spouse is no easy task. These relationships can be like a physical addiction; when romantic love mixes with fear, the result is powerful and dangerous. Our bodies secrete chemicals when we engage ourselves in physical contact, and some – such as the neutrotransmitter dopamine – create pleasant sensations that we crave. We repeat the behaviour that makes our dopamine levels spike, so women who associate love with fear can be vulnerable to choosing men who will hurt them. Emotionally, abused woman also become used to the behaviour, and even if they don’t like it, they may not feel like they have the psychological or social or social resources to sever the toxic bonds. In trying to please abusive men, they’ve mad so many adjustments and accommodations that no sense of self is left. This is how some abusive men manage to coerce their partners into crimes.

Breaking up...

Experts say that the shattered confidence can also make it difficult to leave, even if the woman is miserable. Guilt can also make it harder to break things off. If a woman didn’t see or ignored the early warning signs and instead formed a deep bond with her partner, she’s going to feel guilt and shame about leaving. So, the important step is to recognise the abuse and our own limits in stopping it. The hope that their abusive partners will change is what keeps many women hanging on but, it’s often a futile dream. Individual therapy for abusers also tends not to help because therapists may identify with their patients ant not to be able to recognise the abuse.And couples therapy isn’t the solution if one partner is abusive, it can actually make things worse.


SOURCE : Nature and Health

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