What to do?

Sheila knows we have to drink lots of water in hot weather.

Are you drinking enough water?

"You're not sick, you're thirsty.  Don't treat thirst with medication,"
Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D.

If you have ever complained about the difficulty of drinking eight glasses of water daily, please check out Dr. Batmanghelidj's incredible story.

Dr. Batmanghelidj practiced medicine in the United Kingdom before returning to his native Iran. When the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Dr. Batmanghelidj was placed in the infamous Evin Prison as a political prisoner for two years and seven months.

One night, Dr. B. had to treat a fellow prisoner with crippling peptic ulcer pain. With no medications at his disposal, Dr. B. gave him two glasses of water. Within eight minutes, his pain disappeared. He was instructed to drink two glasses of water every three hours and became absolutely pain free for his four remaining months in the prison.

Dr. B. successfully treated 3,000 fellow prisoners suffering from stress-induced peptic ulcer disease with water alone. While in prison he conducted extensive research into the medicinal effects of water in preventing and relieving many painful degenerative diseases. Dr. B's findings relationship of dehydration and bleeding peptic ulcer disease wer published as the editorial of the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in June 1983. The New York Times Science Watch reported this discovery on June 21, 1983.

On his release from prison in 1982, Dr. Batmanghelidj escaped from Iran and came to America. At the Foundation for the Simple in Medicine he began to research the effect of chronic unintentional dehydration on the human body. His findings were published in the Foundation’s “Journal of Science in Medicine Simplified” in 1991 and 1992. They can be read on the web site http://www.watercure.com/.

Dr. F. Batmaghelidj wrote his first self-help book “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water” in 1992, in which he stated that a dry mouth is not a reliable indicator of dehydration. The body signals its water shortage by producing pain. Dehydration actually produces pain.  Chronic dehydration contributes to many degenerative diseases, including asthma, arthritis, hypertension, angina, adult-onset diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis.

Wear a Pedometer

How can you be sure to get enough exercise into your busy day?  Dr. Wayne Andersen recommends wearing a pedometer.  From the March 2011 issue of Experience Life Magazine:

"As we get older, we typically take fewer steps per day," says Wayne Andersen, MD, medical director of Take Shape For Life, a nationwide health and lifestyle coaching program based in Owings Mills, Maryland. "By age 60, most people are down to about 4,500 steps.  Your goal should be to maintain 10,000."

The best way to do this is to get a pedometer at  your local sporting gooods store, or download an app that converts your cell phone to a pedometer.  Those wearing pedometers tend to walk more because they're more conscious of their steps.

Looking for extra credit?  "Climbing a flight of stairs is the equivalent of walking 100 steps," says Andersen.

Read the entire article here: 25 Ways to Make Time for Fitness