The human body is composed of 75 percent water and 25 percent solid matter. To provide nourishment, eliminate waste and regulate all the functions in the body, we need water. Most modern societies, however, no longer stress the importance of drinking water as the most important nutrient among all nutrients. Entire population groups are substituting water with tea, coffee, alcohol and other manufactured beverages. Many people don t realize that the natural thirst signal of the body is a sign that it requires pure, plain drinking water. Instead, they opt for other beverages in the belief that this would satisfy the body s water requirements. This is a false belief.

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Everything I write comes from experience. In 1999 John Wiley and Sons published my book about aging. My research included articles from the Medline database, medical newsletters, books on the topic, and a random survey of members of my local senior center.

The survey was called “How Do You Feel About Aging?” There were five questions on the form: 1. What are some good things about aging? 2. What are some bad things about aging? 3. What activities do you enjoy? 4. Occupation? 5. Age? (an optional question).

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Everything I write comes from experience. In 1999 John Wiley and Sons published my book about aging. My research included articles from the Medline database, medical newsletters, books on the topic, and a random survey of members of my local senior center.

The survey was called “How Do You Feel About Aging?” There were five questions on the form: 1. What are some good things about aging? 2. What are some bad things about aging? 3. What activities do you enjoy? 4. Occupation? 5. Age? (an optional question).

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A low GI diet consists of foods that are low on GI levels of the carbohydrate food that is taken by an individual. These GI levels are evaluated on the basis of a method that rank a food on the blood glucose level that is released in the body after eating. A low GI food offers a wide variety and has a lot of taste. It is more appetizing and more satisfying and later the individual doesn t crave for more food. A lot of family problems happen over the food as different individuals have different choices. So if a family is taking a Low GI diet then here are some tips that can avoid arguments over the type

of food that is taken.

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Some people think in extremes. They just don t allow any middle ground. It s kind of like you re either with me or you re against me or you re either part of the solution or part of the problem. A person with this “either/or and all or none mentality can be very demanding requiring total allegiance. Any hint of deviation is paramount to a total abdication of that allegiance. A spouse may become insanely jealous, to the point of violence, if their partner is perceived to be paying attention to another person. It is, in the mind of an all or none thinker, inconceivable that a spouse could

be friendly with many different people of both sexes and still absolutely devoted to the partner. The perfectionist also often suffers from totalitarian thinking when they say something like I should have done better, I m such an idiot. It s as if you re either an idiot or perfect, nothing in between.

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