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Eating for Hydration | JointFuel360 Official

It’s that time of the year when the temperature and humidity are both at their highest. This leads to you becoming more dehydrated quicker. In fact, you may be dehydrated and not even fully realize it! You may want to try eating for hydration. The good news is that you don’t just get hydration from drinking fluids. You can also be eating for hydration. With around one in four adults in the US being chronically dehydrated, there is a good chance that you will at least some of the time. This could mean you’re dehydrated right now! Thankfully, eating foods rich in water content can help your joints feel more limber, as well as your overall health seeing improvement. In this article, we are going to go over what you should be eating for hydration. Any one of these foods will deliver plenty of nutritional content, along with significant hydration. Here are our top picks for foods to eat for greater hydration: Cucumber There is perhaps no food as hydrating as a cucumber. A massive 95-9...

How to Make Your Own Hot and Cold Pack | JointFuel360 Official

Nobody likes suffering from aching joints. If you have arthritis, you know about the stiffness and soreness that plagues your joints all too well. Thankfully, there are several tools you can use to get relief. One of these is the use of hot and cold therapy. The way that hot and cold therapy works involves helping out your body’s natural healing processes. For example, when you apply heat to an area that is giving you stiffness, your blood vessels will dilate. Your blood will also circulate better, and any muscle spasms you may have will go away. Applying heat to an affected area giving you discomfort will also reduce the aches you’re feeling. Applying something cold to an affected area will constrict blood vessels and become very effective at numbing soreness. Before we get into how to make your own hot and cold pack, you should know that the temperature of your pack should not make things hurt even more. People will sometimes apply a heat pack that is too hot or a cold pack that ...

Is My Cell Phone Giving Me Text Neck? | JointFuel360 Official

We are sure you have felt the soreness and discomfort you get in your neck after looking down at your phone for long periods of time. This phenomenon is known as “text neck” and has become very prevalent in recent years. In fact, it has become an epidemic . Text neck can lead to immense strain on the spine, which may even result in needing to get surgery. The reason why something as seemingly innocuous as looking down at your phone can lead to a damaged spine rests in basic physics. Your head weighs around 5 kilograms when you are standing with your head facing forward. When you angle your head down at a 15-degree slant, that 5 kilograms becomes 12 kilograms. If you increase the angle to 30 degrees, this becomes 18 kilograms. Increase it to 45 degrees and now you’ve got 24 kilograms of weight on your spine. Once you tilt your neck down 70 degrees, you have added an eye-popping 28 kilograms onto your spine! The way that so much weight gets added onto your neck is a result of you movi...