Friday, January 26, 2007


AQUA

I never use to drink water, only to wash the food down when I eat. When my health started to get bad, my friend started to get on my case about drinking water. She made a deal with me and all!!! She said that I will definitely see results in my health if I consistently drink water throughout the day and if not then she’ll stop bugging me. And when I mean bugging she bugged!!! She checked every day (we work together) if I had a bottle of water, every 10 minutes to see if I took a sip, I couldn’t leave work at the end of the day until I drank my whole water bottle. I took on the challenge and I admit it worked. I feel way healthier now and I crave water. The only thing is that I never got the answer as to Why I needed Water? And, Why is Drinking Water good for me?



Water gives oxygen to your cells and releases toxins from your body. It also helps your body temperature to regulate. Water is about 70% of our body weight. We loose water throughout the day by urinating, sweating. We can not survive without water. Water flushes all the bad toxins out of our bodies.

Without water you will feel fatigue, tired and can not concentrate. You will become dehydrated causing a dry mouth, headaches, thick and dry skin, chap lips, kidney stones, urinary tracts, and constipation.

3 ways our body gets water:
1. We drink it- as mentioned we must drink 8 glasses, at least, of water everyday.
2. We eat it-water comes from the food we eat. Fruits and vegetables contain a lot of water in them.
3. Chemical reactions that occurs in our body.

More water means healthy you! Water can help you digest your food, have a clearer complexion, and help you to loose weight. Water also helps your immune system by draining all of the “germs” out!!! That’s why Doctor’s always say drink lots of fluids when you’re sick!!!!

The websites I received my information from:

Friday, January 19, 2007

Am I seeing double?


I have always been fascinated with the sight of seeing twins!!!! We are all familar with the cute Olsen Twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley from Full House. They are so cute! This may sound crazy, but I want twins. I want to know how identical twins are developed and only through hereditary? To find my answers, I used the online encyclopedia,Wikipeida.
Identical twins occur when a single sperm goes into one embryo and then it splits into two separate embryos. This does not have to happen through genetics. SO there is a possibility for me to have twins huh?

I learned that there are five different variations of twins
1. Male-Female twins
2. Fraternal Females
3. Fraternal Males
4. Identical Males
5. Identical Females
Vocabulary review: Fraternal means non-identical.
To my surprise….Male and Female twins are most common.
I also learned that twin pregnancy term is 3 weeks shorter than the normal pregnancy term. Normal term is 40 weeks (average). Twin term is 37 weeks (average).
The twins magazine website offers magazines for parents, cute products, and other great information about twins.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

High surf and swells




I work at a Bed and Breakfast over looking Honolii beach. This past weeks, I have seen awesome waves at Honolili. My curiosity has grown from wathcing these awesome waves.

My questions:
How Winter Swells are created?
When do they start coming?
How long do they last?

During my research, I have learned that winter swells are waves with long wavelengths. They are generated a thousand miles away from the beach. They are created by tropical storms and by from trade winds. The swells created by storms will, majority of the time, travel in groups. Swells will be created by determining the strength, distance, and amount of time its been blowing on the ocean surface. If the wind is strong, blowing from 45-55kts, and is less than 1000nmiles awayfrom Hawaii, for a long period of time, we will have swells.
I have found that swells (high surfs) is year round. As long as there is trade winds of storms out in the ocean swells are generated. For winter swells, this occurs from September through May. In summer, the swells start from June and lasts through August.


The high surf occuring at Honolii, are caused by trade winds. 10 feet and higher waves!!!
Helpful links:
These are the links I used to find my answers...