Keeping Hydrated

Summer is a time when it is easy to get dehydrated. Water help your body function well. According to the Mayo Clinic, water dissolves minerals and nutrients and delivers them to the whole body via the blood, and blood cells need water to function. Water helps keep your body temperature regulated, keeps your joints lubricated, and flushes wastes out of your system.

If you don’t take in enough water to replace what you lose by sweating during exercise, while working, playing, crying, breathing, vomiting, or from diarrhea, you may feel tired and you may not function as well as you would if you were hydrated.

SpryLiving.com , July 2013, has some recommendations for staying hydrated.

• When you see a water fountain stop and take a drink. 
• Drink water during meals and in between bites. 
• Think of water as a type of vitamin and incorporate it into your routine. 
• Carry a bottle of water with you and sip on it. 
• Drink water while you drive (just keep your eyes on the road as you do).
• Drink before going to the gym, during exercise, and after. 
• Keep a glass or pitcher at your desk, and order water when you are dining out.

If you feel very warm and tired and have not been drinking enough fluids, stop and relax with a glass of Maine Warmer around your neck and enjoy relief from the heat externally while you cool your insides by drinking water. Or enjoy a fun Comforting Creature that has been store in the freezer.

water. Drink it slowly over a few minutes instead of all at once. Wrap a cooled (from the freezer)