Weight Loss and Dehydration Danger!

I made a big mistake the other day. I figured I would take some of those hoodia weight loss pills. I should have really paid attention to the directions before a popped it.
Who knew that natural weight loss can cause dehydration? I accidentally made myself pretty sick. I got horribly thirsty, nauseas and dizzy because I did not get enough water into me.
The herbal weight loss formula I took also had green tea powder or green tea extract added into them. There is a reason why they call powdered green tea gunpowder! Green tea is known as healthy for you but it is also a very powerful diuretic and you can lose more water with it than you can imagine.
Still people drink a lot of it thinking that they are hydrating themselves when in reality they are turning their organs and brains into prunes.. Drinking too much tea of any kind is cleansing for the kidneys at first but if you overload them you are in trouble.
One way to play it safe if you have to take this stuff is to drink more water than you think you can possibly stand to drink. Even if you do not feel thirsty you should force yourself to drink as much water as you can. That way you do not risk drying your body out and you can detoxify and lose weight the right way.
I have a warning to mothers. Never be tempted to give your child any kind of diet supplement. Even if it is just green tea. Your child could become seriously dehydrated. Also, if you see your teenage child taking any kind of dietary supplement that suppresses their thirst you should immediately remove the product from their body-conscious little grip! Teenage girls are really into these supplements which are the equivalent of taking speed for them. The ephedra in some of them can make their little hearts race and even give them a heart attack.
You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day and even more if you are a larger person. Many weight loss experts recommend drinking half of your weight in ounces each day in order to stay healthy. So if your kid is 80 pounds he or she should be drinking about 40 ounces of water a day. This can be five glasses of water or juice a day.
Be sure that both you and your child take water before, during and after all exercise and especially if you are planning strenuous exercising. Ten to fourteen ounces a day are the recommended fluid doses before you any kind of athletic activity. This is important to ward off any post work out fatigue and symptoms like sore muscles or excessive thirst

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More Natural Remedies for Cold Sores

Cold sores are so obnoxious I decided to do more research into how to heal them. Furthermore a predisposition to them can be hereditary!
Reishi mushrooms
Reishi mushrooms have a long history of being used to boost the effectiveness of the immune system in traditional medicine throughout many parts of Asia.
In more recent times however, evidence has pointed to the fact that reishi also seems to have the ability to inhibit the spread of the herpes virus, thereby preventing the development of cold sores.
Furthermore, as reishi can be obtained in either powdered or food supplement form, the benefits of including this in your diet are readily available even if the mushrooms themselves are not.
Herbal remedies for cold sores
There are many herbal solutions that you can use to keep the herpes simplex at bay. These include the following:
Echinacea and goldenseal – Both echinacea and goldenseal are plants from which the extract helps to boost the ability of your immune system to fight against viruses like herpes simplex. The extract is available in capsule form over the counter in most health stores or online.
Self-heal – This is a plant that grows in Europe and in Asia (with a more scientific name of ‘Prunella vulgaris') of which the extract has been seen to be effective against the spread of both the herpes simplex 1 and herpes simplex 2 viruses.
There is also some evidence that it works against strains of the virus that have become resistant to drug-based cold sore solutions as well, and again, you should be able to find the extract in your local health food store or it is available for purchase online.
Blackcurrant – Studies in Japan have indicated that eating blackcurrants or including the extract of them as a supplement in your diet may be effective for combating the herpes virus as laboratory tests have indicated the effectiveness of blackcurrants against herpes simplex.
Wakame – Wakame is the Japanese name for a particular type of seaweed which appears to improve the healing time for anyone who is suffering from cold sores, whilst there is also some evidence that it inhibits the reactivation of the virus as well.
Sage and rhubarb cream – In a German study that compared the use of sage and rhubarb cream with the effectiveness of a cream using sage and Acyclovir, it was seen that there was little difference in the ability of the two test substances to help cold sores heal. However, the study concluded that the all natural mixture of sage and rhubarb was more active in fighting against cold sores, hence there is every reason for thinking that the natural option is to be preferred to the one containing chemicals.

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