Is Hydration Important for Athletes?

Hydration is an important aspect of any athletes daily regiment. Being hydrated gives the athlete the extra boost at the end of a sprint or the extra kick in their step to shoot the winning goal. Continue to hydrate before, and during the activity to stay at peak performance levels. Hydrating during an event is [...]

Regarding Article in NY Times and Chlorine in Pools

There is an article in the NY Times today and swimmers and lung diseases.  They think there is a correlation from using the  chlorine in the pools.  Especially indoor pools where the air quality isn’t as good as an outdoor pool. All of this seems to be  something a lot of people have known for [...]

Do Countertop Water Filters Take Out Chlorine?

Do countertop water filters take out chlorine? Most of us know that chlorine is really bad for us,but how many of us know how much is in our tap water out of our kitchen?
Chlorine is used in most municipal water supplies because it is a cheap disinfectant and kills most bacteria. The problem is how [...]

Is An Alkaline Diet The Way to Go?

A lot has been discussed lately about alkaline diets. Several books out about pH balance. Well I have to tell you I’ve tried it and it works. I did this in a couple of different areas.
The first thing I did was get an alkaline water ionizer. I did a lot of research on this and [...]

Period Before the Introduction of Shower Filters

Do you know that years before people were not even using water filters at home and were used to drinking tap water directly?   They would stores the tap water in large containers and use it for drinking as well as cooking purposes.  Falling sick on account of water carried disease were very few and far [...]

More Unique Ways to Reduce Your Household Expenses

OK. ooma phones system in. Check. What’s next? Still haven’t disconnected the cable TV yet and that would be a quick $75 dollars a month savings. Plus consider the time I spend watching it, would I’m sure make me  a “better” person.  What other ways could I reduce expenses without going that route?
One of the [...]

Reducing Household Expenses,Update On ooma Phone System

Bottom line. Working great!  I’ve used the ooma service from a week or so now and haven’t had any problems. Calling them today and ordering the premium service for $99 a year which gives me one free “porting” of phone number. That normally runs $39 dollars to change your old phone number over to the [...]

Reducing Household Expenses In These Tough Times

Need to reduce your household expenses in these tough time? There are a lot of ways to do that. One of them is how much our phones costs. We have several phones in our home. One for the general household, one for our home based business and several cell phones. The cell phones are another [...]

Ways to Save Money In This Tough Economy

Man, are we cutting back! In this tough economic times our family is looking at every way we can to reduce expenses. One of the expenses that we were able to save a lot of money was switching our phone system over from Cox and Vonage (two lines) to ooma VoIP system. After purchasing the [...]

The Convenience of Using a Under Counter Water Filter

The convenience of using a water filter that is under the counter is that you will no longer have to make those runs to the grocery store to pick up a case of bottled water.  Also there will be no more worrying about whether, or not you are going to have time to take the [...]