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Q: With how hot it has been, what should I do to prevent my family from getting dehydrated?

A: The main function of the human body is to provide oxygen and glucose to the brain. Blood carries this oxygen and glucose, and is mostly made from water. So having adequate water in the body is critical for good health.

I think about the bodys fluid composition using my rules of two thirds rough estimate. Over two thirds of our body weight is water. Most of this water is inside the cells of the body, again about two thirds. Of the water not in the cells, about two thirds is in the space between the cells. This leaves 2/3 of the body weight times 1/3 not in the cells times 1/3 not between the cells equals 2/27 (about 7 percent) of our bodys weight being blood; and about two thirds of that is in the veins. Water can easily move from inside the cells to outside the cells to inside the bloodstream, balanced by colloid osmotic (oncotic) pressure that works to keep sufficient amounts in the bloodstream.

The body loses water in many of its normal daily functions; moisture in the air exhaled, sweat to help regulate body temperature, and the fluids used in waste elimination (urine and stool). Electrolytes (such as sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate and others) are also lost (taste how salty sweat is).

Additional fluid and electrolyte loss can occur for many reasons:

- Infants lose more fluids per body weight than adults.

- People with poorly controlled diabetes may have increased urine output.

- People who develop vomiting and/or diarrhea (from any cause) lose fluids and may also have decreased fluid intake.

- Respiratory problems causing fast breathing increase fluid loss.

- Any condition that causes fever may lead to excess sweating.

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It seems like every day there's a new celebrity announcing her pregnancythen hitting the runway or the red carpet in a barely-there outfit weeks after giving birth. Hollywood moms have plenty of incentive to get back into shape: Jessica Simpson recently struck a $3 million deal with Weight Watchers to use the program to lose her baby weight, while Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai was criticized for not losing her pregnancy pounds quickly enough. (Her daughter was born in November, 2011.)

"Celebrities work hard and they put the time in, because their career depends on it," said Lisa DeFazio, a nutritionist in Los Angeles. While some stars may resort to surgery or dangerous cleanses, most simply diet and exercisebut have the money to afford personal trainers mail-order meals to speed the process. Here's 13 who bounced back in record time.

Beyonc

Gracing the cover of People's Most Beautiful People issue in April 2012four months after the birth of her first child, BlueBeyonce told the magazine that she was back to her pre-pregnancy weight and felt "more beautiful than ever." In fact, she flaunted her famous curves just weeks after giving birth when she wore a figure-hugging dress to husband Jay-Z's Carnegie Hall concert in February. "I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; it's just so good for the baby and good for yourself," Knowles told People.

Bethenny Frankel

The Bethenny Ever After Star caused a stir in June, 2010 when she posed for Us Weekly in a size-4 swimsuit just three weeks after giving birth to daughter Bryn. Frankel responded with a statement to the website Momlogic, where she attributed Bryn's early arrival (five weeks premature)as well as healthy eating habits and yoga throughout her pregnancyto her ability to slim down so quickly. Later that year, she told Health she probably still weighed four or five more pounds than she did before pregnancy, but that she was "not even concerned about it."

Pink

"As soon as Pink had the green light from her doctor, we got to work," said Jeanette Jenkins, celebrity trainer and creator of The Hollywood Trainer DVD series, who's also helped Tia Mowrey and Alicia Keyes get their pre-baby bodies back. After the June 2011 birth of her daughter, Pink trained five days a week with Jenkins and followed a healthy meal plan in preparation for her fall tour and her first movie role in the upcoming "Thanks for Sharing."

Gwyneth Paltrow

Losing the baby weight after the birth of her second child in 2006 was "by far the hardest thing I have ever done," Paltrow said in 2010. She worked out two hours a day with the help of celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson, the Huffington Post reported, but also said that time constraints shouldn't be an excuse for any woman not to get her body back. "Every woman can make timeevery womanand you can do it with your baby in the room," she said. "There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling all over the place."

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --A frustrating side effect of childbirth is pregnancy weight gain. After childbirth, many women find that baby weight is seemingly impossible to shed. Even women who watch what they eat and work out may find themselves held captive to that stubborn baby weight gain. These moms want to feel energized and able to take care of their responsibilities, but they don't know how to lose pregnancy weight.

Donna Parker, a licensed acupuncturist and Wellness Coach, launched a new website earlier this year to bring hope to moms who have tried to lose baby weight and failed. BestWaytoLoseBabyWeight.com offers visitors advice on how to lose baby weight and adopt a low-glycemic lifestyle, the cornerstone of Donna's pregnancy weight loss program.

Donna works with her clients to help them eat the proper combination of fat, carbs, and protein. "I don't ask my clients to go on a diet," says Donna. "Diets are restrictive. Dieters feel deprived and count the days until they lose weight and can go back to their old eating patterns. Instead, I show my clients a new way to eat that includes wonderful, delicious food they will be able to enjoy for the rest of their lives."

The results of this lifestyle change include steady and permanent pregnancy weight loss and a new way of looking at food. It eliminates cravings for refined carbohydrates (foods which quickly release their sugar content into our bodies, such as baked goods, alcoholic drinks, and all things sweet), which raise levels of the feel-good hormones, dopamine and serotonin, in the body, but overload the system, causing abdominal fat and wild blood sugar swings.

To start losing baby weight, Donna's clients begin with a five-day "re-set" period, during which they reprogram their bodies to lose cravings for refined carbohydrates, followed by a further 23 days eating only low-glycemic foods. It takes 28 days for these lifestyle changes to be fully incorporated. Donna's clients receive individual, customized recommendations with respect to food, water, sleep, and exercise which reflect each client's lifestyle, age, body type, specific health issues, and weight loss goal. She provides nutritional products that help moderate her clients' cravings (including the Usana products endorsed by Dr. Mehmet Oz) and coaches her clients to success.

A study by Dr. David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D, director of the Optimal Weight for Life program and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, showed that some people's bodies react to the blood sugar spike caused by refined carbohydrates by secreting too much insulin and are prone to stubborn weight gain. Dr. Oz mentioned this study in conjunction with his advice to follow a 28-day low-glycemic diet to get control of unwanted weight.

Donna understands the frustration of stubborn baby weight gain and the process of changing deeply ingrained eating habits. She changed to a low-glycemic lifestyle to lose the weight she gained during pregnancy. "It helps so much to have a coach," says Donna. "So many times we are very good at knowing what isn't working for us. We need someone to point out what we have accomplished and show us the progress we are making."

Donna's dietary products help her clients transition from high-carbohydrate foods to low-glycemic foods. "You can't just change a lifelong way of eating overnight," she says. "These are our comfort foods, the ones we crave when we're tired, depressed, or anxious because they boost the 'happy' hormones. The products I recommend cut cravings and help your blood sugar level out."

Donna maintains that the two biggest barriers to permanent weight loss are having the attitude that we can lose some weight and then go back to bad eating habits and that we are just one of those people who can't keep weight off. "The program I offer combats both these issues," she says. "People who eat a low-glycemic diet stop craving unhealthy food and start craving healthy food! It takes awhile for your taste buds to change, but they do. My program is so useful because it gets you over the hump. I know this program will work for everyone who follows it."

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Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jonathan Dwyer got into the doghouse quickly last year, showing up 20 pounds overweight to training camp.

But now with Rashard Mendenhall out with an injury, Dwyer sees an opportunity before him, and he intends to capitalize on it, says the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

I know if I come in at the weight I am supposed to be, I will be OK. It is not anybody elses responsibility to come into camp in shape. It is mine, said Dwyer, who will train with Maurice Jones-Drew and Matt Forte before camp opens.

They asked me to come down, and I see how successful they are and how the training is and felt it was a good idea, Dwyer said. I thought to myself that I would be a fool not to go train down there with them.

Dwyer said he hopes to prove himself not only to teammates, but the rest of the league as well.

I am just realizing how much it takes to get where you are in this league and how hard you have to work and push yourself, Dwyer said. This is my year to prove something to myself, the league, to the organization, that I am worth more than what I was.

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ARLINGTON, Va., June 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The nonprofit LIFE Foundation announced today an online vote to help determine which of two students in its LIFE Lessons Scholarship Program will be awarded $10,000 towards their college education. The two finalists highlighted in the vote submitted videos describing the financial and emotional impact of losing a parent at an early age, especially how the lack of adequate life insurance coverage affected their college plans. Voting will take place between now and the end of July. The voting process is being conducted on the LIFE Foundation's Facebook page, and can be accessed through this direct link, http://www.lifehappens.org/vote.

The students featured in the vote are:

The LIFE Foundation has already awarded Johana and David $5,000 scholarships because their applications were judged to be the two best in the Video Category. The online vote will determine which student receives an additional $5,000 toward their college education costs.

"Johana and David's stories are good examples of how difficult life can become for your children if you fail to plan ahead for their financial future," said Marvin H. Feldman, CLU, ChFC, RFC, president and CEO of the LIFE Foundation. "When a parent dies without life insurance, financial chaos can settle in very quickly and plans for the future, like a college education, often get postponed or set aside altogether. We created the LIFE Lessons Scholarship program to help deserving young people like Johana and David to realize their dream of a college education and to remind moms and dads everywhere of the need to include life insurance in their college-funding plans."

In all, LIFE will award 61 scholarships this year totaling $112,000. The winner of the online vote, as well as the other 2012 scholarship recipients, will be announced in September 2012. For more information about the LIFE Lessons Scholarship Program visit http://www.lifehappens.org/lifelessons. To cast your vote for the two video finalists, visit http://www.lifehappens.org/vote.

About the LIFE Lessons Scholarship ProgramThe LIFE Lessons Scholarship Program is open to young people between ages 17 and 24, who have experienced the death of a parent or legal guardian, and are currently enrolled in, or have been accepted to, a college, university or trade school. Applications are solicited in the spring and scholarship recipients are notified in the summer. LIFE accepts individual, tax-deductible donations for the LIFE Lessons Scholarship Fund online at http://www.lifehappens.org/donate. For more information, visit http://www.lifehappens.org/lifelessons.

About LIFEThe Life and Health Insurance Foundation for Education (LIFE) was founded in 1994 in response to the public's growing need for information and education on life, health, disability and long-term care insurance. LIFE also seeks to remind people of the important role insurance professionals perform in helping families, businesses and individuals find the insurance solutions that best fit their needs. To learn more about these topics, please visit http://www.lifehappens.org.

CONTACT: Brooke Martin 215-790-4139 -or- Jessica Thorpe 212-445-8368

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(CNN) -- Summer is a time when people ritualistically hit the gym to trim down for swimsuit season, working out to look good in a bathing suit. But this time three years ago, all Kit Ooraikul wanted was to be able to move again.

He was struck with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a disorder in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks the nervous system. He spent months lying in a hospital bed, watching his muscles deteriorate. Finally, his health started to improve enough for him to go into rehabilitation.

In rehab, he started running. It was his way of building back the muscle he'd lost. But after he was discharged, he needed something to keep him moving. That's when he turned to RunKeeper, a fitness application that tracks, maps and records the progress of its users' running activity.

"I couldn't see myself just running on my own without some motivation tool," the 37-year-old said.

Ooraikul is one of many people using fitness apps and sites to get in shape. More than 10 million people use RunKeeper, according to the company. It's just one example of the exponential growth of fitness apps available online and via mobile devices.

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By Joy Bauer, TODAY nutrition expert

Cutting-edge research from Boston Childrens Hospital suggests that the type of diet you eat may affect your metabolism, a finding that has important implications for weight maintenance. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week, the study looked at three popular diets (low-carb, low-glycemic, and low-fat) to see which combination of fat, carbs, and protein was the best for people trying to maintain a previous weight loss.

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Low-glycemic carbs like beans, lentils, and non-starchy vegetables take a long time for the body to absorb and appear to be more effective at satisfying hunger.

Because decreases in metabolism can contribute to weight regain, the researchers aimed to see which eating plan worked best with the bodys internal mechanisms to rev up dieters calorie burn and help them keep the weight off.

The low-glycemic diet emerged as the top-performing plan, giving people a significant metabolic boost without causing undesirable side effects. Participants burned approximately 125 more calories per day while following the low-glycemic plan compared to when eating a low-fat diet. While the low-carb diet had an even better effect on metabolism than the low-glycemic plan, the low-carb diet also produced the highest levels of cortisol (a stress hormone) and CRP (a marker of inflammation). These factors may raise the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.

The low-glycemic diet offered a happy medium. It helped stabilize blood sugar and metabolism, and also had a beneficial impact on inflammation, stress hormones, and other heart-health markers.

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HCG EZ Drops has created a new blog post series that will benefit individuals who are interested in the HCG EZ Drops diet, as well as specific diets that can be combined with HCG drops. Because so many people want to include HCG drops in the diets that theyre currently on, HCG EZ Drops staff has researched and compiled information on how the drops can be used in a variety of different types of diets.

The blog series contains information on how HCG EZ Drops can be used with some of todays most popular diets, including the Atkins Diet, the Zone Diet and the Raw Food Diet. The point is to help individuals lose weight faster with the HCG EZ Drops than they would with a regular fad diet, while maintaining the diets they find easy or the ones they prefer.

HCG EZ Drops can be used with popular diets or alone, says HCG EZ Drops founder Dave Sherwin. Our new blog series shows individuals exactly how to incorporate the EZ Drops with any diet youre currently on. The result is more rapid weight loss. In fact, individuals can expect to lose between 1 and 3 pounds every single day, even with zero exercise. Its easier than ever to implement the HCG EZ Drops into any diet.

HCG EZ Drops are natural hormone drops that target fat deposits in the body, helping super-charge weight loss. Mentioned by Dr. Oz on his television show, HCG or human chorionic gonadotropin, is a hormone typically found in pregnant women. It was originally found that when individuals took HCG, they lost weight very quickly and the hormone turned stored fat into usable fuel in the body. Typically, the HCG diet focuses on a 500 or 800-calorie a day intake, but it can be used with virtually any diet to super charge weight loss.

A great deal of other information is available on the HCG EZ Drops blog as well, including recipes individuals can use as they participate in the HCG diet, tips for making the diet easier, warnings about specific diets and tips. Individuals can gain a lot of valuable information from visiting the HCG EZ Drops blog and using it as a source of support while taking part in the diet. Another thing individuals can find on the blog is testimonials from others who have utilized the HCG EZ Drops. This allows men and women to see exactly how past customers feel about the product and how it has worked for them.

Those who are on the HCG diet or who are considering adding HCG drops to their current diet are invited to visit the HCG EZ Drops blog at http://hcgezdrops.com

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Jessica Simpson gave birth to her first child, Maxwell Drew Johnson, in May and has received a lot of criticism for putting on so much weight. Now that the Fashion Star mentor has joined Weight Watchers, everyone is wondering how quickly she will lose the pounds. But Jessica recently revealed that Weight Watchers hasnt pressured her to lose weight. Read on to find out more.

Just so everyone knowsWeight Watchers hasnt put ANY pressure on me! Jessica wrote on Twitter. Im trying to be as healthy as I can be for myself and I feel great.

Weight Watchers made an announcement after Jessica came on as their new ambassador for North America. Were thrilled that Jessica Simpson has chosen to join Weight Watchers to adopt a healthier lifestyle and inspire others to do the same. Her talent, resilience and positive outlook already make her a great role model, and by deciding to trade in yo-yo dieting for a healthier lifestyle, we know she will inspire many women to join her.

Were glad to hear that Weight Watchers isnt pressuring Jessica to lose her baby weight too quickly. She should be able to lose weight at her own pace and nothave to obsess about getting super skinny. Not every woman can lose her baby weight in a couple of months, so we shouldnt expect Jessica to.

How long do you think it will take Jessica to lose her baby weight? Do you think she will get her old body back? Share your thoughts with us!

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