Written by: Vanessa Drummond, zazen Water - Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Excerpted from an article on www.nzherald.co.nz
Human "homeostasis" or state of balance is the optimum, Rush says. It is about keeping the body regulated with a steady amount of fluid in to match the fluid going out at that time. This homeostasis can be thrown into imbalance through bodily processes such as evaporation from the skin, exercise, and environmental factors such as heat and humidity.
If you don't drink sufficient water your performance is compromised. Your heart has to work faster, meaning your energy levels will decrease and you won't be able to metabolise fat as easily as you should. Conversely, you'll get more out of your exercise session if you're properly hydrated.
Providing you have sufficient liquid in your system the chemical ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is turned into ADP (adenosine diphosphate) during exercise and helps your muscles contract. That process is impaired if you're dehydrated. A good way to find out if you're drinking enough is to look at the colour of your urine after exercise. If it's dark, you're probably dehydrated.
If you're really worried about hydration and dehydration then weigh yourself before and after exercise. You shouldn't lose more than 2 per cent of body weight in fluid during any exercise session or your performance will decrease.
One of the big mistakes people make when exercising is only drinking when they are thirsty. Another is to assume you need sports drinks - which are sometimes packed with calories.
Unless you're exercising at really high intensity for an hour or more a day you probably don't need sports drinks to replace electrolytes such as sodium and potassium.
If you're exercising for more than 90 minutes the rules change; in that case consider drinking one cup of electrolyte drink every 15-30 minutes.
Parents have a responsibility to ensure their budding athletes drink enough when exercising. Younger athletes do not control the build-up of heat as well as adults so need to drink more regularly.
Children may not understand the need to keep hydrated, although they tend to be better than adults at responding to thirst, says Rush. Whenever children are exercising adults should offer them water during breaks.
No-one is the same. But there are some general guidelines for drinking and strenuous exercise:
Before: Drink about two to three cups of water a couple of hours before exercising and then about one cup around 15 minutes before.
During: Drink one cup of water if necessary every 10-15 minutes.
After: Have a larger drink after exercise. It's essential for recovery, ensuring that you can exercise tomorrow and the next day rather than feeling too tired to do anything.
Written by: Jaclyn Barker, zazen Water - Wednesday, October 05, 2011
10 Reasons to Use a Shower Filter
The Environmental Protection Agency has stated that every household in the United States has elevated levels of chloroform in the air due to chlorine released from showering water.
Tap water often contains at least as much, if not more, chlorine than is recommended for use in swimming pools.
More chlorine enters the body through dermal absorption and inhalation while showering than through drinking tap water.
The chlorine in showering water has harsh, drying effects on skin and hair.
Skin pores widen while showering, making dermal absorption of chlorine and other chemicals possible.
The chlorine in showering water can cause rashes and other skin irritations when absorbed by the skin.
Chemicals in showering water vaporize at a much faster rate than the actual water. Thus, the steam in a shower contains a much higher concentration of chemicals than the water itself.
Inhaled chemicals make their way into the bloodstream much more quickly than ingested chemicals, without the added filtration benefits of digestion.
More water contaminants are released into the air of a home from the shower than from any other source.
Chlorine is a suspected cause of breast cancer. Women suffering from breast cancer are all found to have 50-60 percent more chlorine in their breast tissue than healthy women.
10 Benefits of Using a Shower Filter
Using a shower filter is one of the easiest and most effective ways to reduce harmful exposure to chlorine and other chemicals.
Showering in filtered water results in greater respiratory health by reducing the risk of asthma and bronchitis from chlorine inhalation.
Showering in chlorine-free, filtered water decreases the risks of bladder and breast cancer.
Children, who are particularly at risk of the harmful effects of chlorine inhalation, benefit especially from the reduction of chlorine from showering water.
As chlorine is a leading cause of fatigue, showering in filtered, chlorine-free water results in higher energy levels and overall greater health.
Reducing chlorine from showering water results in better air quality throughout the house.
Without the drying effects of chlorine, skin becomes softer, healthier, and younger looking.
Reducing chlorine from showering water reduces the presence of skin rashes and the appearance of wrinkles.
Because the hair is able to preserve its natural moisturizing oils, it becomes softer and healthier when chlorine is removed from showering water.
When the body is able to retain its natural moisturizers, the need for costly lotions and moisturizers is greatly reduced.
Written by: Jaclyn Barker, zazen Water - Thursday, September 29, 2011
10 Reasons to Drink Water
Water is absolutely essential to the human body’s survival. A person can live for about a month without food, but only about a week without water.
Water helps to maintain healthy body weight by increasing metabolism and regulating appetite.
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.
For a majority of sufferers, drinking water can significantly reduce joint and/or back pain.
Water leads to overall greater health by flushing out wastes and bacteria that can cause disease.
Water can prevent and alleviate headaches.
Water naturally moisturises skin and ensures proper cellular formation underneath layers of skin to give it a healthy, glowing appearance.
Water aids in the digestion process and prevents constipation.
Water is the primary mode of transportation for all nutrients in the body and is essential for proper circulation.
10 Reasons to Use a Water Filter
In order to capitalise on the health benefits of water, it is essential to draw from a clean source of water.
Drinking impure, contaminated water is the leading cause of epidemic disease in developing countries.
There are more than 2100 known drinking water contaminants that may be present in tap water, including several known poisons.
Bottled water does not offer a viable alternative to tap water.
Municipal water treatment facilities cannot always control for the outbreak of dangerous bacterial contaminants in tap water.
The only way to ensure pure, contaminant-free drinking water is through the use of a point-of-use filtration system in your home or office.
Several types of cancer can be attributed to the presence of toxic materials in drinking water.
Clean, healthy drinking water is essential to a child’s proper mental and physical development.
According to the EPA, lead in drinking water contributes to 480,000 cases of learning disorders in children each year in the United States alone.
It is especially important for pregnant women to drink pure water as lead in drinking water can cause severe birth defects.
10 Benefits of Using a Water Filter
Water filters provide better tasting and better smelling drinking water by reducing chlorine and bacterial contaminants.
Point-of-use water filters reduce lead from drinking water immediately prior to consumption, thus preventing this harmful substance from entering the body.
The purchase of a countertop filter results in a source of clean, healthy water that costs much less than bottled water.
Water filters greatly reduce the risk of rectal cancer, colon cancer, and bladder cancer by reducing chlorine and chlorine byproducts such as Trihalomethanes and Disinfectant By-Products from drinking water.
A solid block carbon water filter can selectively reduce dangerous contaminants from drinking water while retaining healthy mineral deposits that balance thepH of drinking water.
Drinking clean, filtered water protects the body from disease and leads to overall greater health.
A water filter provides clean, healthy water for cooking, as well as drinking, at the convenience of tap water.
Water filters reduce the risk of gastrointestinal disease by more than 33 percent by reducing cryptosporidium andgiardia from drinking water.
Drinking pure water is especially important for children. Water filters provide the healthiest water for children’s developing immune systems.
Water filters offer the last line of defense between the body and the over 2100 known toxins that may be present in drinking water.
Lead Poisoning in 292 NSW Schools - What parents need to know!
Written by: Jaclyn Barker, zazen Water - Saturday, July 16, 2011
On Monday the 17th of September 2007, we were alarmed to read of over 42 schools in country NSW that were identified with elevated levels of lead in the schools water supplies. A year later in September 2008 there were 292 schools identified – and parents were NOT Aware!
Whats going on? We have been asking ourselves the following questions:
How would lead leach into schools drinking waters supplies IF it is not in the piping or traditional plumbing materials?
If lead is in the school’s water supply – then is it possible or even probable that it is also in the local area water supply as well; if so how is it getting in there?
Where does the lead come from that we find in our water tanks?
How do we filter lead out of our water for peace of mind?
If lead is present – is there the possibility of other heavy metals likley to be present as well which could also threaten our children’s health?
What’s hiding in your water?
We had the opportunity recently to interview and listen to a Biochemist and local geologist resident in country NSW explain how the coal mining process actually releases a number of deadly heavy metals including lead, arsenic and cadmium into the air as coal dust. When the coal shale is broken as part of the mining process, these deadly and toxic heavy metals that have been bound (and harmless in that state) in the shale for millions of years are released through the mining process.
And yes, as the coal is transported and railed across country NSW to Newcastle and as it sits in those massive open pit mines, open train wagons and piled high ready for loading – the coal dust picked up by the wind is deposited on the roofs, porches, grounds and play areas of our schools, houses and businesses. And for those on tank water or where the water is potentially exposed to “dust and dust run off!” – it is dissolved into the water which ends up in our drinking water supplies! Simple but scary.
And no-one is taking any responsibility for this! They are still looking to replace the plumbing in the schools of any lead content!
The biochemist / geologist and his naturopath wife who is also a research scientist were alarmed when they moved to country NSW several years ago and tested their own tank and drinking water. They found deadly heavy metals were present including lead, cadmium and arsenic! They are now sending the message to all that will listen that you MUST filter your water and recently tested the zazen Alkaline Water system and purchased it for their own use (having tested many others). Click here for the testimonial on the zazen Essential Water system
Written by: Jaclyn Barker, zazen Water - Friday, July 08, 2011
Every function inside your child’s body is regulated by and depends on their daily intake of water.
Unfortunately the tap water our children drink at school, and at home, no longer has the required nutritional properties to sustain their vital health.
Did You Know?
Your child loses up to 12 cups of water every day through normal bodily functions?
That your child’s body does not have a reserve of water? The water present in their body is already fully engaged?
That the brain is three-quarters water. Concentration, memory and reaction times benefit from proper hydration.
That blood is 90% water and without adequate water intake the volume of our blood can fall. A drop of four percent in blood volume reduces your child’s body’s ability to function by 33 percent!
With so much of your children’s lives depending on it, a good source of alkaline mineral water is also good for your peace of mind.
A quality alkaline mineral water should provide the following benefits to your child, and to the family:
it should clean your tap water of heavy metals, chlorine, rust, bacteria and other particulates that are mostly too microscopic for us to see
it should have mineral rocks that the water sits in after being filtered, which put beneficial minerals back into the water, such as calcium, potassium, magnesium. We know we need minerals as part of a healthy diet, but did you know that minerals in drinking water are more easily and better absorbed than minerals from food?
it should have silver stones to ensure that the water sitting in the bottom tank is ready for drinking and is kept in a pristine state. Silver is a natural anti-bacterial agent and anti-fungal agent, so the water remains healthy for drinking. If you consider all the bottled waters sitting on shelves for long periods of time between when they were bottled and when they are consumed, with no silver continuing to keep the water in a pristine state, its no wonder many of them are found to contain bacteria.
the water should pour through a magnetic tap which effectively reduces the size of the water molecule, meaning the water hydrates the body better. You will notice drinking alkaline mineral water that you do not feel bloated in the gut, even after consuming a couple of glasses at a time. The normal bloating feeling you might experience with tap water is because much of the water is too large to pass into our cells to hydrate.
the mineral rocks also assist to restore often acidic tap water to an alkaline state which is much better for the body. Disease cannot exist in the body in an alkaline state. Disease is all acidic, and we often feed it with drugs that are acidic.
Written by: Jaclyn Barker, zazen Water - Monday, July 04, 2011
By now you will have understood how critical good water is, but we often get asked “Isn’t all water the same?”
NO.NOT ALL WATER IS EQUAL!
Water than can act as a nutrient to your body and increase vitality should be safe, filtered, energised, mineral rich, pH balanced & oxygenated.
Basic water filters remove EVERYTHING from your drinking water ~ both the bad stuff, harmful bacteria, and the good stuff, beneficial minerals.
This water that is stripped of everything cannot sustain life. If you put a gold fish in tap water or simply filtered water, it will die within minutes. Everyone who owns a fish tank knows they must treat water from our taps before adding it to the aquarium.
So if it kills fish, what is it slowly doing to us?
Well, when we drink filtered or distilled water, the body has to borrow essential minerals to process it, using up valuable energy reserves, and robbing our body of minerals needed for other functions. If this type of water is ingested for long periods of time, it leaches out valuable reserves of body minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium and sodium.
You can take mineral supplements to replace them, however it is not easy to replace the minerals in our bodies in the same form as we lost them.
However there is a way to make sure that the water that comes out of your tap is converted to the required levels of quality and safety to restore the natural balance of fluids in your child’s body!
Written by: Jaclyn Barker, zazen Water - Sunday, June 26, 2011
“Australian Children today enjoy good health compared to past generations thanks to major breakthroughs in medical research… there are however areas of significant concern emerging which may threaten the quality and length of our children’s lives."
Christine Bennett, Research Australia CEO, 2005
This quote shocked us when we first heard it.
This report, and others we have since read, talk of the children today, young Australians, living a shorter lifespan than their parents, our generation! This is of great concern to us. So we decided to do something about it.
Today kids spend a lot of time indoors watching TV or playing on computers
The health statistics of our children paint a clear picture……
We feel we only have a short window of opportunity to turn this around before its too late.
1 in 4 children are overweight/obese, trending towards 1 in 3
1 in 6 children suffer from asthma
Asthma is the leading chronic disease amongst Australian children
Exposure to unclean air is one of the most serious threats to a child’s health
1 in 6 children suffer from a developmental, learning or behavioural disability (Doctors for the Environment Australia)
More and more Australian children are suffering poor mental health with depression, suicide & behavioural disorders on the rise (Australian Institute of Health & Welfare)
ADHD & Tourette Syndrome statistics are increasing
The average home has 200+ cancer causing chemicals in it.
So where to begin?
We decided it made sense to start at the beginning, with the foundation to good health and a longer life.
We believe the foundation of good health … is drinking the right QUANTITY and QUALITY of WATER
