MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'drinking water'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:10:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813615&cid=t_119709_136_f&fid=36162&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myelomablog.com%2F2011%2F05%2F10%2Fscientific-study-links-flammable-drinking-water-to-fracking%2F This study provides eye-opening scientific evidence about methane contamination and the risks that irresponsible natural gas drilling poses for drinking water supplies,” said Congressman Maurice Hinchey, D-NY. “It provides yet another reason why more study of the environmental and health risks associated with hydraulic fracturing is needed.” Hinchey is one of several Democratic members of Congress who recently re-introduced the FRAC Act [12], which calls for public disclosure of the chemicals used underground. The bill, which is currently languishing in the House, would remove an exemption in federal law that prohibits the EPA from regulating hydraulic fracturing. May 9: This story has been updated to include information from John Conrad that was received after publication. Follo... beth's myeloma blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813615 Tue, 10 May 2011 15:57:28 +0100 4813615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4742661&cid=t_119709_180_f&fid=38612&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpickthebrain%2FLYVv%2F%7E3%2F5SdEWHIw0Mw%2F My two-year-old daughter doesn’t balk at all the water I give her to drink. But when I told my 7-year-old son to drink a glass of water, he said, “But I’m not thirsty. Can I have root beer instead?” Suddenly I got a flashback to my early years. There was never a dull moment with my family growing up, but I didn’t learn the importance of drinking water. Water just tasted bad to me, and I chose not to drink it. I didn’t have a clue that I was depriving myself of the most important factor for enjoying good health: drinking plenty of water. What turned me around was something I learned in my late 20s while watching a show on television. An object lesson was used to teach the importance of drinking water. In essence, if you washed your dirty dishes with orange soda, they wouldn’t ... PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4742661 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:38:50 +0100 4742661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4693282&cid=t_119709_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FURP9aLb3Cgc%2F Women Deliver and Vestergaard Frandsen Announce Competition for Women Bloggers “Women Bloggers Deliver” will award two female bloggers with a trip to Kenya to learn about clean water and women in development 6 April 2011, New York – Women Deliver, in partnership with Vestergaard Frandsen, announced today the launch of “Women Bloggers Deliver,” a competition that will send two female bloggers on a trip to Kakamega, Kenya to observe a unique public health campaign with a climate change component that will provide millions of girls and women with access to safe and clean drinking water. The winning bloggers will accompany community workers as they distribute LifeStraw® Family water filters to almost a million households, and watch as families and communities are transformed by this... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4693282 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:41:23 +0100 4693282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3921100&cid=t_119709_180_f&fid=38607&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fsuccessbeginstoday%2FBHWQ%2F%7E3%2FK6plMEwinvk%2F One of the great mysteries of life is this. How can you drink water (Which is heavy) and lose weight? I have pondered this many times, but over time, drinking 2 to 3 liters of water a day, will help you lose weight and keep it off. It also helps you perform better during exercise, reduces fatigue, and can even help you feel better by reducing back pain and headaches. So if water is so good for you, is widely available and inexpensive (or in most cases free), why is it so hard to drink enough to keep hydrated through the day? Here are my thoughts… Water is boring and pretty well tasteless Water is heavy and cumbersome to lug around There are a lot of better tasting competitors to take its place Drinking a lot of water equals a lot of bathroom trips In my struggle to drink more water, I... Success Begins Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3921100 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:13:08 +0100 3921100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3298319&cid=t_119709_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.disruptivewomen.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F02%2Fhaitiupdategurley.mp3 The following interview with Dr. Jan Gurley, a board-certified internist physician, was recently featured on the Better Health blog. Dr. Jan Gurley just returned from a mission trip to Haiti, 5 weeks after the earthquake hit. In this audio clip, she relays a horrific first-hand account of the current realities of life in Port Au Prince. With no running water, bathrooms, or place to shelter – and packed into a field with 100,000 people – some young women are choosing to stop drinking water in an effort to commit suicide. Dr. Gurley describes the loss of human dignity associated with the crisis in Haiti, including a near stampede when sanitary napkins were offered in a crowd of women. She explains that the place is becoming dangerous – and the screams of women being raped i... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3298319 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:53:51 +0100 3298319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871752&cid=t_119709_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F07%2Fneed-to-form-a-new-habit-66-days%2F A lot of the change that comes about through processes like psychotherapy (or even just reading a self-help article or book and trying to put those ideas into effect in your life) requires forming new habits. Habits of thinking differently, of reacting differently, of behaving differently. And it can be a frustrating process as you wait for these changes to take effect and become more automatic, as habits do. How long does it take to form a new habit? A week? A month? A year? At least 2 months (or about 66 days, on average), according to the research. Jeremy Dean over at PsyBlog the other week wrote a great entry that looked at what the research tells us about how long it takes us to form a new habit: Although the average was 66 days, there was marked variation in how long habits took to ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871752 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:49:31 +0100 2871752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473246&cid=t_119709_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Ffrom-humidity-in-the-air-to-drinking-water%2F Deserts are associated with high temperatures, cracked and parched soil, and little water. If any plants exist, they are usually few in number. Mirages are more likely than oasis and drinking water is a scarce commodity. But some German scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB in Stuttgart think they might have the answer. Working in collaboration with Logos Innovationen, the scientists have discovered a process that will convert air humidity into drinking water. And best of all, the process is energy-autonomous via thermal solar collectors, photovoltaic cells, and vacuum tanks.  Here’s how it works: A brine (salt) solution runs down the tower-shaped unit absorbing water from the air. The water soaked brine solution is then sucked by vac... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473246 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:57:15 +0100 2473246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1980618&cid=t_119709_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F11%2F22%2Ftake-the-clean-water-challenge%2F Ever live in a place where you know the water is not safe to drink? Where you even use bottled water to clean your teeth? I have and I’ve got to say it’s not fun. I lived in Saudi Arabia for a year and was reliant on bottled water for drinking, cooking, and yes, cleaning my teeth. But while I found it annoying, at least I did have access to clean water which is more that millions of people around the world have. The World Health Organizations (WHO) says… “…1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation kills nearly TWO MILLION people each year, mostly children under the age of five.” That’s way too many people without clean drinking water. Want to help out? Take the Clean Water Challenge Quiz… For each correct answer, th... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1980618 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:31:00 +0100 1980618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1886301&cid=t_119709_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fdentists-should-know-bogus-bottled-water%2F Yesterday, MedicalNewsToday.com published an article about a 2-year study, by Environmental Working Group (EWG), on bottled water. It seems that bottled water is pretty much the same as tap water. However, 2 of the 10 brands examined had levels of chlorine over what’s allowed in California. And apparently there is a “voluntary standard” for reporting carcinogens in bottled water. Five states produce/allow sell of bottled water that exceeds the standards. As a dentist, you know that many areas have municipal water that’s fluorinated, but most bottled water is unfluorinated. All the bad, none of the good? What are we buying, and why? The researchers who conducted the study for EWG recommend that bottled water manufacturers be held to the same standards as municipal w... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1886301 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:40:51 +0100 1886301 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1649033&cid=t_119709_87_f&fid=34935&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedicine.com.my%2Fwp%2F%3Fp%3D3766 The BBC has reported on a woman who was left disabled after following a “detox” diet which involved drinking large quantities of water. I don’t know if Malaysians have been also conditioned by the “hydration industry” to drink more water than they actually need. The question is really how much water should one drink? While the 8 glasses of water a day is indeed another myth, the water requirement really varies according to your physiological need. You will need to drink more if you perspire more, on hot days, or if you are ill with fever. Doctors will also advise patients on chemotherapy to drink more as good hydration will lessen the side effects of chemotherapy. Generally for under normal conditions, if one sticks to about 1-2 litres of fluids a day, it shou... Malaysian Medical Resources blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1649033 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1649033 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1289328&cid=t_119709_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F248429805%2F A vast array of pharmaceuticals - including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones - have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows. To be sure, the concentrations of these pharmaceuticals are tiny, measured in quantities of parts per billion or trillion, far below the levels of a medical dose. Also, utilities insist their water is safe. But the presence of so many prescription drugs - and over-the-counter medicines like acetaminophen and ibuprofen - in so much of our drinking water is heightening worries among scientists of long-term consequences to human health. In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1289328 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:48:09 +0100 1289328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=623482&cid=t_119709_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F18%2Fthought-for-the-day-drink-plenty-of-fresh-pure-water%2F Filed under: Thought for the DayAre you a heavy water drinker? Water, the only liquid required for human survival, has properties that many claim are incredibly potent for human health. While there are many kinds of water to consume, spring water and ionized water have been known to inhibit cancer growth.Think about this:Do you consume about 60 to 80 ounces of fresh water every single day? If not, why not? Water not only flushes toxins from the body, but it's the best overall tonic for superior health. At least, that's the opinion of many holistic healing experts.For the cancer patient, the ionized kind if best, as it contains higher levels of antioxidants (and it's more alkaline) and can actually aid in killing cancer cells (directly or indirectly). While it's not a treatment in and of it... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=623482 Fri, 18 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 623482