Smoothy Slim
Smoothy Slim
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If you drink a lot of coffee in a short amount of time then you will need to pee more, thus losing hydration. This means that for every cup of coffee or two cups of black tea, you should drink one cup of water to make up for the diuretic effect.
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Learn More »Coffee is basically the life-saver of most college students. It gives us that energy we need to get through the day filled with classes and other activities. Coffee has tons of health benefits like helping to lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes, cancer and can help burn calories but is also gets a bad rep for being dehydrating because they are a diuretic (they make you pee!) But is coffee actually dehydrating? And if so, how much water do we need to drink to offset the coffee we intake? If the old rule of eight glasses a day of water is true, then we might have to really start upping our water intake. Luckily, it turns out coffee isn’t doing as much damage as we think. Our hydration levels because of coffee can actually differ in the short term and long term. In the short term, yes you probably need to be drinking more water. If you drink a lot of coffee in a short amount of time then you will need to pee more, thus losing hydration. This means that for every cup of coffee or two cups of black tea, you should drink one cup of water to make up for the diuretic effect. However, in the long term you may not need to make up for coffee’s effects at all. After a while of drinking coffee your body actually adjusts and can actually become less dehydrating. But if you stop drinking coffee for a period of time and then start drinking it again, you lose that tolerance to coffee and you should drink water, in the 1 to 1 ratio, until your body adjusts again. It is not always easy to tell if you are dehydrated but the pee check usually is a good indicator. If your pee is too dark yellow, then you definitely need to be drinking more water. Also, if you are feeling thirsty, sweating excessively, exposed to heat, weakness or dizzy you may be dehydrated. Luckily, you can get rehydrated in fun ways if you are not a fan of water. Like these fun ideas to get you drink more water and foods that help dehydration.
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Learn More »Walking is particularly effective for toning your legs and bum, she adds. “The muscles you use when walking include your calf muscles, thighs and buttocks, so these areas will become more toned and shapely.” However, walking may not tone all areas of the body.
There are few sensations more satisfactory than the buzz on your wrist when you have walked 10,000 steps. With over 25 million of us using Fitbits, walking is increasingly the basis of our fitness regime. Walking has innumerable benefits. According to research published today by the University of Michigan, a 20-30 minute stroll in nature can lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol by about 10 per cent. But for some of us, walking is our only form of exercise. We only went to one of those 10 HIIT classes that we booked at the start of the year, and the journey past the gym is now our daily walk of shame. As walking is a moderate form of aerobic exercise, it helps you stay active without breaking a sweat (or needing to change into Lycra). However, this low intensity calls into question the power of the stride: is walking alone enough to change our body shape and make us look more toned? I spoke to some experts, and started walking for 45 minutes every other day, to find out.
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