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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04696286092210537028noreply@blogger.com0Kennesaw, GA, USA34.0234337 -84.615489733.9707927 -84.6944537 34.0760747 -84.5365257tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535973506640293629.post-26818329227484525912012-11-08T11:46:00.000-05:002012-11-08T11:46:00.146-05:00RainSoft of Atlanta - Checklist for Disaster Supply Kit from FEMA<br />
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<li>Important family documents such as copies of insurance policies, identification and bank account records in a waterproof, portable container. You can use the <a href="http://www.citizencorps.gov/downloads/pdf/ready/EFFAK_2010_FEMA.pdf" target="_blank">Emergency Financial First Aid Kit (EFFAK)</a> (PDF - 977Kb) developed by Operation Hope, FEMA and Citizen Corps to help you organize your information.</li>
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<li>Sleeping bag or warm blanket for each person. Consider additional bedding if you live in a cold-weather climate.</li>
<li>Complete change of clothing including a long sleeved shirt, long pants and sturdy shoes. Consider additional clothing if you live in a cold-weather climate.</li>
<li>Household chlorine bleach and medicine dropper – When diluted, nine parts water to one part bleach, bleach can be used as a disinfectant. Or in an emergency, you can use it to treat water by using 16 drops of regular household liquid bleach per gallon of water. Do not use scented, color safe or bleaches with added cleaners.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">The air quality of our indoor environments affects our health and often contributes to structural degradation and building failures within our homes.</span></span></div>
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According to the American Lung Association of Minnesota, elements within our home and workplaces have been increasingly recognized as threats to our respiratory health. The most common pollutants are radon, combustion products, biologicals (molds, pet dander, pollen), volatile organic compounds, lead dust and asbestos.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.epa.gov/" style="border: 0px; color: #185b91; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Environmental Protection Agency</a> lists poor indoor air quality as the fourth largest environmental threat to our country.</div>
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There are an estimated 40 million individuals in the United States who are affected by allergies. Learning how to control a homes environment to reduce allergen levels is important for managing allergies and asthma. Individuals who suffer from asthma, or have other respiratory illness may potentially be at a greater risk for health complications associated with poor air quality in their homes.</div>
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The prevalence rate of pediatric asthma has increased from 40.1 to 69.1,—a 72.3 percent increase. Asthma is the sixth ranking chronic condition in our nation and the leading serious chronic illness of children in the U.S.</div>
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In the house, poor indoor air quality can result in structural rot within the walls and attic and around window framing from excess moisture.</div>
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Common pollutants can enter our houses through air leaks in the structure.</div>
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Common housing problems or failures that occur in our homes include: musty odors and mold growth, window condensation, structural rot, peeling paint, back-drafting appliances, damp basements and ice dams, or build-up of ice on the roofs edge, and high utility costs.</div>
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<i>From the <a href="http://www.lung.org/associations/charters/mid-atlantic/air-quality/indoor-air-quality.html">American Lung Association</a></i><br />
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Posted: <span class="posted" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="2012-08-29T10:49:00-07:00">Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:49 am</span> | <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Updated: 11:50 am, Tue Aug 28, 2012.</em></div>
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<span class="paragraph-0" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Water is one of the most important nutrients and often overlooked for detoxification, losing body fat, and optimal health. Your body is approximately 70 percent water, your brain tissue approximately 75 percent water, and your blood is 83 percent water.</span></div>
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<span class="paragraph-1" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many people are chronically dehydrated and consume a majority of their calories from sugary, caffeinated beverages. You can become dehydrated from an intense workout, excessive sweating, too much alcohol consumption, working outdoors in the heat, use of OTC drugs, when you’re sick (disease, diarrhea, vomiting), starvation, or just not consuming enough water.</span></div>
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Symptoms of dehydration include fatigue, poor concentration, headaches, low back pain, constipation, Charley horses and dry skin.</div>
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A few benefits of water are:</div>
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• Helps lower elevated cholesterol</div>
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• Weight maintenance aiding with fat loss</div>
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• Eliminates waste and flushes out toxins</div>
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• Central nervous system and brain function</div>
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• Regulates body temperature</div>
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• Transport nutrients</div>
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• Lowers cortisol</div>
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• Boosts metabolism</div>
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• Lubricates your spine, bones, joints and muscles</div>
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Before meals, enjoy a cup or two of water with the fresh juice from a lemon or lime. Doing so creates an alkaline environment and is helpful for digestion. In a study, those who drank two cups of water before each meal lost an average of 5 pounds more weight over a 12-week calorie controlled diet than those who followed the same diet but did not drink the water.</div>
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To avoid BPA and other chemicals from water in plastic bottles, store your water in a glass bottles. Better yet, consider installing a reverse osmosis water filtration system in your home to filter your water from impurities such as fluoride, contaminants, and chemicals.</div>
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Ten popular U.S. bottled water brands contain mixtures of 38 different pollutants, including bacteria, fertilizer, Tylenol and industrial chemicals, some at levels no better than tap water, according to laboratory tests recently conducted by Environmental Working Group (EWG).</div>
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The bottle water industry has also contributed to one of the biggest environmental problems facing the world today. Only one-fifth of the bottles produced by the industry are recycled. The remaining four-fifths pile up at landfills, litter our neighborhoods and foul our oceans.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04696286092210537028noreply@blogger.com0Kennesaw, GA, USA34.0234337 -84.615489733.9707927 -84.6944537 34.0760747 -84.5365257tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535973506640293629.post-20428196411922917062012-08-14T14:39:00.000-04:002012-08-14T14:39:14.029-04:00Staying Hydrated One Way to Reduce Kidney Stones in Kids<h2>
Daily Checkup: Drinking water cuts youngsters' risk of painful deposits</h2>
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Summer is peak dehydration season, so now is a good time to make sure
your kids are drinking enough water. Besides the familiar problems of
irritability and heat exhaustion, dehydration can lead to the formation
of kidney stones, even in children.</h2>
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<i>BY </i></a><i><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/authors?author=Katie%20Charles" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" rel="author" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span itemprop="name" style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KATIE CHARLES</span> </a>/ NEW YORK DAILY NEWS</i><br />
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<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHO'S MOST AT RISK</b></span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Summer
is peak dehydration season, so now is a good time to make sure your
kids are drinking enough water. Besides the familiar problems of
irritability and heat exhaustion, dehydration can lead to the formation
of kidney stones, even in children.</span><br />
<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>
<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Most
people, adults and kids, just aren’t drinking enough water to properly
process the minerals that are coursing through our body,” says Mount
Sinai’s Dr. Grace Hyun.</span><br />
<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>
<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Kidney
stones are salt deposits that form in the urinary tract when urine
concentration is off balance, which in kids is usually due to
dehydration,” says Hyun. In the last few decades, it has become
increasingly common for kids to be diagnosed with kidney stones.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A
body’s normal hydration can be disrupted in three ways. “The most
common ways are the intake of too little liquid or too much salt,” says
Hyun. “A minority of patients are born with a faulty mechanism for
maintaining correct salt levels.”</span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The
kidney stone is made of a combination of the minerals normally found in
the blood. Despite the presence of calcium, drinking milk is not a
primary factor that leads to kidney stones.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When
kids develop urological problems, whether urinary incontinence or
kidney stones, the underlying cause is almost always that they aren’t
drinking enough water. “It can be hard to get kids to drink water — so
often they say, ‘Water doesn’t taste good,’?” says Hyun. “I know it’s a
challenge for parents, so I recommend drinking water with every meal and
not keeping any other beverages in the refrigerator.” To prevent
urological problems, Hyun recommends drinking four to five glasses of
water a day, which should lead to urination every two and a half to
three hours.</span></div>
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<b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/health-library?page=essentials_water" style="border: 0px currentColor; color: #015fb6; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ESSENTIALS - WATER</a></b><br />
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Some
children form kidney stones due to an underlying cause they were born
with. “If the stones are due to an inborn metabolic disorder, they could
drink all the water in the world and still have kidney stones,” says
Hyun. “In these cases kids need to receive medical treatment.”<br />
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<b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS</b><br />
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Kidney
stones present themselves in the same way in children and adults. “The
symptoms can be quite acute: flank pain, nausea, vomiting and sometimes
blood in the urine,” says Hyun. “The classic kidney stone pain is a
renal-colic pain that starts in the flank and radiates around to the
lower abdomen — you can’t get into a comfortable position and it is very
painful.” Usually doctors use ultrasound or a noncontrast CT scan for
diagnosis.<br />
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It’s not the kidney stones themselves that
cause pain. “It’s when the stone suddenly blocks the ureter or flow of
urine, which causes a backup of pressure that patients feel real pain,”
says Hyun. “It’s tougher to diagnose kidney stones in those kids who
have vague abdominal pain — because lots of healthy kids have a
nonspecific pain.”</div>
<span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Get Informed.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> Start
with the American Urological Association (www.urologyhealth.org) for
user-friendly search engines and a toll-free hotline: 1-800-828-7866.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT YOU CAN DO</b></span></span></span></h4>
<span style="border: 0px currentColor; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Get Informed</b><b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> Start
with the American Urological Association (www.urologyhealth.org) for
user-friendly search engines and a toll-free hotline: 1-800-828-7866.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><b style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eat Less Salt.</b><span style="background-color: white;"><b> </b>“There’s
a lot more salt in processed foods than in a home-cooked meal,” says
Hyun, “Poorer diets and the obesity epidemic probably play a role in the
increase we’re seeing in pediatric kidney stones.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><b style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drink Enough Water.<span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></b><span style="background-color: white;">“WATER,
WATER, WATER, AND IF YOU DRINK A GLASS OF ANOTHER LIQUID, THAT DOESN’T
COUNT,” SAYS HYUN, “4-5 GLASSES OF WATER A DAY IS AN ACHIEVABLE GOAL.”</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br /><b style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Recognize Dehydration</b><b style="border: 0px currentColor; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </b><span style="background-color: white;">The
rule of thumb for maintaining urological health is that everyone--men,
women, and kids--should urinate every 2.5-3 hours. “Urine that’s bright
yellow, dark, or has a strong odor is a sign of dehydration,” says Hyun.</span><br /><br /><i style="border: 0px currentColor; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Grace
Hyun Grace Hyun is a pediatric urologist who treats children for
problems ranging from congenital disorders to kidney stones. An
assistant professor of urology and pediatrics, she performs over 300
surgeries a year.</i><span style="border: 0px currentColor; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span><br />To Read the entire article <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/daily-checkup-drinking-water-cuts-youngsters-risk-painful-deposits-article-1.1131264?localLinksEnabled=false" target="_blank">click here</a>.</span><br />
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EAST VILLAGE — A new café recently opened up on East 10th Street — but don't expect to find customers sipping on lattes.</div>
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<a href="http://themoleculeproject.com/" style="border: currentColor; color: #058b7b; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Molecule</a>, aka the Water Café, is filtering New York City tap water down to its purest form and serving it for $2.50 to thirsty local patrons using a custom-made device worth more than $20,000.</div>
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"It's about treating water a little more consciously, mindfully and respectfully," said co-owner Adam Ruhf, 32, who has a background in music and activism.</div>
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But the store is not only planning to peddle its gallons for in-home use, as passersby can stop in for a quick gulp — complete with an option to add vitamin supplements to their H2O cocktails.</div>
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The store has been in the works for 18 months, with Ruhf taking the concept of self-service water shops in Los Angeles and building on the theme.</div>
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"This is like a water store 2.0," he said of the opening, <a href="http://evgrieve.com/2012/07/water-cafe-now-open-on-east-10th-street.html" style="border: currentColor; color: #058b7b; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">which was first reported on EV Grieve</a>.</div>
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Ruhf knows first hand the healing properties of purified water, claiming that drinking it regularly helped eased the pain caused brought on by two serious car accidents that left him without a spleen and a leg held together with metal pins.</div>
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"It's more of an intuitive thing about cleanliness," he explained of how water helped him recover. "Not wanting toxins [from unfiltered water] to further inhibit my recovery."</div>
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His store, located between First Avenue and Avenue A, first takes city water heavy with chlorine, fluoride and compound metals and sends it through its towering 8-foot filter behind the counter.</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: verdana, helvetica, arial; font-size: 11px;">Discover the benefits of RainSoft drinking water systems, and taste the difference in your drinking water today. </span></div>
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Hazy days of summer can boost air pollution, health risks for many</h3>
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<strong>OLYMPIA</strong> - In Washington, we welcome warm sunny weather, ready to spend more time outdoors in the garden and on hiking trails. Summer is also <a href="http://www.doh.wa.gov/CommunityandEnvironment/AirQuality/OutdoorAir/SmokeFromFires.aspx" style="color: purple;">wildfire season</a> and a time when <a href="http://www.epa.gov/glo/health.html" style="color: purple;">ozone levels</a> rise, making it more difficult to breathe for people with heart and lung diseases.</div>
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“It’s important for people who have conditions like asthma, bronchitis, and heart disease to pay attention to air quality reports,” said State Health Officer Dr. Maxine Hayes. “Air pollution makes it hard for everybody to breathe. And poor air quality affects people with heart and lung diseases earlier than others. If you live in an area that has forest fires, make sure to protect yourself from smoky conditions.”</div>
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Older adults are vulnerable because they often don’t know they have these diseases. New research suggests that breathing air that has high “particulate” matter, or fine particles, can also be risky for people who are obese or have diabetes. Children are vulnerable to polluted air because their lungs are still growing and they spend more time outdoors.</div>
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Different things cause summer air pollution. Several consecutive days of sunny, hot weather will increase ozone. Wildfires like the ones that have broken out in central Washington recently produce smoky air that contains fine particles and toxic chemicals. Cars and trucks generate exhaust. On calm days when the air is still, air pollutants build up. Ongoing climate changes are projected to cause additional bad air quality by increasing wildfires and ozone pollution.</div>
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Everyone can lower their exposure to air pollution by checking air quality conditions before taking part in outdoor activities, especially people in high risk groups. When air pollution is high, people should limit outdoor activity and choose less strenuous things to do — such as going for a walk instead of a run. Pollution levels are often highest at midday or in the afternoon, so exercising earlier or later may be wise. Indoor exercise is another option.<br />
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This can affect tap water that might have a smoky taste and could fail to meet federal drinking water standards, says engineering graduate students whose study suggests ways cities government can protect drinking water after a wildfire.<br />
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This is a real-time risk for communities like Colorado Springs, where the Waldo Canyon Fire has scorches 15,324 acres of hillside terrain, and the National Weather Service had issued a flash flood watch for the wildfire's "burn scar" Wednesday afternoon.<br />
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In the study, School of Mines graduate researchers worked with the city of Golden on scenarios exploring how a fire in the Golden area would adversely affect the water supply in Clear Creek, the city's source of drinking water.<br />
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"While impacts of wildfires have been studied by scientists from forestry, biology and hydrology, this study is the first that combines these experiences with water treatment engineering and focuses on adverse effects on drinking water quality and appropriate response strategies," Drewes said.<br />
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Sales of bottled water are on the rise, increasing 2 percent, to $7.8 billion, from August 2010 to August 2011 in supermarkets, drugstores, gas and convenience stores, and mass merchants (excluding Walmart), according to SymphonyIRI Group, a market-research company.</div>
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If you're going to pay for a product you could get for free, it helps to know what you're buying, so below you'll find a water glossary. Along with the information that follows, note that you may see “glacier water” and “mountain water” on bottles, but there's no standard definition for those terms.</div>
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Whatever the bottle says, don't be misled by crisp blue labels and pictures of mountains. Forty-seven percent of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is tap water that's been purified, according to data from the Beverage Marketing Association, a trade group. If you're concerned about the water quality in your area but don't want to pay for bottled water, check out our <a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/water-filters.htm" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #176fcc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">review of water filters</a>.</div>
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Water obtained from a well that taps a confined aquifer, an underground layer of rock or sand that contains water. Example: Fiji Natural Artesian Water.</div>
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Water that has been boiled and then recondensed from the steam that the boiling produces. Distillation kills microbes and removes minerals, giving water a flat taste. Example: Glacéau Smartwater.</div>
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Groundwater that naturally contains at least 250 parts per million of dissolved solids. All minerals and other trace elements must be present in the water when it emerges at the source. Example: Calistoga.</div>
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Public water source, also known as municipal water supply, or tap water. Fun fact: Aquafina, one of the top 10 selling domestic brands, used to say “P.W.S.” on its label—but changed that in 2007 under pressure from Corporate Accountability International to make clear that the water came from a public supply and not some pristine mountain spring called P.W.S.</div>
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Water from any source that has been treated to remove chemicals and pathogens according to standards set by the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. Must contain no more than 10 parts per million of dissolved solids. Distillation, deionization, and reverse osmosis are all purification methods. Examples: Aquafina, Dasani.</div>
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Water that contains carbon dioxide at an amount equal to what it contained when it emerged from its source. Carbon dioxide lost during the treatment process may be added back. (Carbonated waters such as soda water and seltzer are considered soft drinks, not bottled waters.) Example: Perrier.</div>
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Water derived from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the Earth’s surface. Spring water must be collected at the spring or through a borehole tapping the underground formation (aquifer) feeding the spring. Examples: Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water (Nestlé), Evian.</div>
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Water accounts for 60 percent of our body (or about 11 gallons or 92 pounds inside a 155-pound person) and is essential to every cell. So it’s not to surprising that new research—reported on at the recent British Psychological Society Annual Conference in London—found that college students who brought water with them into an exam scored higher marks than their counterparts who didn’t have water.<br />
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Unfortunately, the researchers didn’t look into whether the students actually drank the water. Nor did they investigate the reasons behind the study findings. But the researchers hypothesized that drinking water could improve students’ thinking and/or help students stay calm and quell their anxiety—both of which could hinder their test performance.<br />
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Their thinking makes sense to me: other research has suggested that staying hydrated keeps your memory sharp, your mood stable and your motivation intact. You can also think through a problem more easily.<br />
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<b>(CNN)</b> -- New York City officials are proposing banning the sale of large-size sodas and other sugary beverages at restaurants and food carts.<br />
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"More than half of NYC adults (58%) are overweight or obese," Mayor Michael Bloomberg tweeted Thursday. "We're doing something about it."<br />
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The ban would outlaw such drinks larger than 16 ounces at restaurants, food carts and any other establishments that receive letter grades for food service. It would not apply to grocery stores.<br />
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Critics -- including McDonald's and Coca-Cola, which stand to be hurt by the proposal -- quickly assailed it as "misguided" and "arbitrary."<br />
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The New York City Department of Health will submit the measure to the Board of Health on June 12. There will then be a three-month comment period before the board votes on the proposal, officials said.<br />
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"If approved, the city's proposal would take effect six months after Board of Health approval and would be enforced by the city's regular restaurant inspection team," a statement from Bloomberg's office said. "Restaurant owners will have nine months from the adoption of the proposal until they face fines."<br />
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Fines will then be $200, the statement said. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/31/us/new-york-sugar-drinks/index.html" target="_blank"> Read more...</a><br />World Class Water, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03342170306819609505noreply@blogger.com02121 Barrett Park Dr, Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA34.0088524 -84.596093533.9956899 -84.615834499999991 34.0220149 -84.5763525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535973506640293629.post-9851398077309865902012-05-24T12:06:00.001-04:002012-05-24T12:06:49.595-04:00Discolored, smelly tap water: that can't leave a good taste in your mouth<br />
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HOUSTON—Residents in a brand new neighborhood on the shores of Lake Houston say the biggest problem they have is what drew them here in the first place: the water.</div>
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It’s not the water in the lake, but the water coming from their taps that is the trouble. They said the water is discolored brown, white, even pink sometimes and horrible smelling.</div>
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Hundreds of residents met Thursday night to try and decide exactly what they can do to get the problem fixed.</div>
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The MUD district said that it is doing all it can, most recently sending a letter to residents telling them about a hyper chlorination program that started last week.</div>
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The water is a mix of the lake and well water, and people who live here say it is still a problem.</div>
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One resident showed us the water in his bathroom sink. <a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://bit.ly/J71bnw" data-ultimate-url="http://www.khou.com/news/Residents-near-Lake-Houston-complain-of-smelly-discolored-water---------151987365.html" href="http://t.co/wJljSLQ4" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #0084b4; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://bit.ly/J71bnw">Read more...</a></div>
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By now you probably know that drinking your daily dose of H2O keeps your body <a href="http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/6-reasons-to-drink-water?page=2" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6aa3b1; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">running properly</a>, your skin clear and may even <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/23/drink.water.lose.weight/index.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6aa3b1; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">help you lose weight</a>.</div>
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But there still isn't a set-in-stone answer when it comes to the question of just how much water we need to drink each day. Some people will tell you to drink eight glasses, while others <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/14/drinking-8-glasses-of-wat_n_899276.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6aa3b1; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">call that "nonsense."</a> Others will tell you to divide your body weight in half and drink that number, in ounces, of water every day. And depending on the weather or your level of physical activity or whether or not you're pregnant, you might <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/28/how-much-water-urine-color-chart_n_1305129.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6aa3b1; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">need even more than usual</a>.</div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">In 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) established that healthy adult women need around</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2004/Dietary-Reference-Intakes-Water-Potassium-Sodium-Chloride-and-Sulfate.aspx" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6aa3b1; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">91 ounces of total water</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">and healthy adult men need about 125 ounces every day. But "total" water counts the water in other beverages, as well as the liquid in </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/6-hydrating-foods_n_1297196.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6aa3b1; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">hydrating, high-water-volume foods</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a class="twitter-timeline-link" data-expanded-url="http://huff.to/K7u1YL" data-ultimate-url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/drinking-water-week-more-water_n_1474999.html" href="http://t.co/KAV0sqdo" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0084b4; font: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="http://huff.to/K7u1YL">Read more...</a><br />World Class Water, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03342170306819609505noreply@blogger.com0Atlanta, GA, USA33.7489954 -84.387982433.6433744 -84.5459109 33.8546164 -84.2300539tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535973506640293629.post-18195024538118254862012-04-11T12:17:00.003-04:002012-04-11T12:17:24.132-04:00Too little calcium, water linked to kidney stones<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Boost your water</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> intake to lessen the chance of developing kidney stones!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-calcium-kidney-stonesbre82s19i-20120329,0,2929503.story" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Click here to read more from the Chicago Tribune article.</a>World Class Water, Inc.http://www.blogger.com/profile/03342170306819609505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4535973506640293629.post-68709305280454336122012-03-08T17:13:00.003-05:002012-03-08T17:13:53.080-05:004 Tips for Kicking Your Soda HabitA recent study found that obese participants who swapped water for soda were 2x
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