Drinking Water: A Comprehensive Guide to Keeping Yourself Hydrated:
⢠Explains why hydration is important and provides tips to increase water intake, improve hydration, and avoid dehydration and unhealthy beverages
⢠Discusses many of the potential problems that can arise from dehydration, such as headaches, dizziness, and even low energy levels
⢠Helps users understand why certain beverages are unhealthy and offers advice on alternative beverage options to stay hydrated
⢠Provides guidance on making sure tap water is secure, details on storing and carrying water properly, and safety tips when traveling
As a UX designer, understanding the importance of hydration is vital to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and ensures that you are in peak performance. Reading this book will teach you how to keep your body hydrated effectively and safely, allowing you to be at your best when working on your designs.
Other books that would be beneficial for UX designers include Good To Great by Jim Collins, Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation by Idris Mootoo and Breakthrough Thinking by Edward de Bono. These books provide insight on how to think strategically, innovate and design projects that can be used in a UX design process.
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the Roman upper-classes perceived water as a beverage suitable only for children, slaves or women who couldnât drink
the Roman upper-classes perceived water as a beverage suitable
the Roman upper-classes perceived water as a beverage suitable only for children, slaves or women who couldnât drink wine.
there was even an English doctor who believed that drinking water could result in feeling melancholic.
the god Odin searched for the transformative water that runs under Yggdrasil, a sacred tree that links all worlds.
similar tale comes from the Muslim world. In it, Alexander the Greatâs political adviser Khidr makes it through the Land of Darkness to come upon a spring that could grant him immortality.
Itâs believed that aqueducts were originally introduced to supply the bathhouses, which were popular in the city,
The free water was contained in public basins called lacĹŤs.
The free water was contained in public basins called lacĹŤs. To have water flowing into your home, you had to pay a tax
he was the first to realize that water could be politicized.
The relationship between drinking unsafe water and disease wasnât discovered until the mid-nineteenth century.
plenty of reasons why ancient societies preferred beer and wine over water, but the main one was that people sometimes got very sick when drinking HâO.
1748, New York Cityâs drinking water was so badly polluted by excrement, tadpoles and waste from slaughterhouses and tanneries that a journalist proclaimed, âhorses from out of town wouldnât drink it.â
commonly held belief that diseases like cholera were caused by pathogens in the air, although crowded streets were increasingly flooded with dirty industrial runoff. Finally, the link between water and disease became apparent.
After the arrival of the Dutch in Manhattan around the mid-seventeenth century, the only nearby water source was the Kalch-Hook, a seven-acre pond that was later called âthe Collect.â The pond was described in a letter to the New York Evening Journal as containing âabominable fluid.â
the nineteenth-century Thames contained contaminated water. Indeed, in 1858 London hosted
the nineteenth-century
the nineteenth-century Thames contained contaminated water.
âcleanliness is next to godlinessâ
Populations of wildlife living near water sources all over the world have been found to have dangerous levels of endocrine disruptors.
and lead to abnormalities in the immune and reproductive systems
a beluga whale in Canada was found with levels of endocrine disruptors such as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB, at ten times the minimum amount that would qualify as toxic waste.
In 1902, Middelkerke in Belgium was the first town to add chlorine to its water source and effectively kill dangerous bacteria. By 1941, chlorinated systems were found in 85 percent of the United States.
Batman Begins, the villain Scarecrow contaminates Gothamâs waters with a fatal toxin. The plot draws on our paranoia about someone poisoning our water supplies, a fear that isnât as far-fetched as youâd think.
only takes the determination of a bored teen to potentially jeopardize
Missouri in 1993, where seven people died from salmonella poisoning because bird poo ended up in the water supply.
The sight of all those plastic bottles is worrying, but the manufacturing of plastic itself requires water. Three to four liters of water are needed to create a one-liter plastic bottle, and each day an estimated 30 million bottles of water end up in the trash. The state of California alone is responsible for the disposal of one billion bottles every year.
1996, the South African government amended its constitution after Apartheid was abolished, creating a new system that would provide each citizen with 6.6 gallons of free water per day.
we are drinking the same water as the dinosaurs.
20 percent of the worldâs freshwater is contained in the Great Lakes between Canada and the United States.
researchers even went so far as to suggest that, in the right conditions, itâs feasible to move a seven-million-ton iceberg from Greenland to the Canary Islands and lose only three million tons along the way.
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2006) is a look at human
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2006) is a look at human history through an unusual lens: our favorite drinks. These blinks outline the global rise of beer, wine, alcoholic spirits, tea, coffee and soda, and how they each played into major historical developments as they spread around the world.
the Roman upper-classes perceived water as a beverage suitable only for children, slaves or women who couldnât drink
the Roman upper-classes perceived water as a beverage suitable
the Roman upper-classes perceived water as a beverage suitable only for children, slaves or women who couldnât drink wine.
there was even an English doctor who believed that drinking water could result in feeling melancholic.
the god Odin searched for the transformative water that runs under Yggdrasil, a sacred tree that links all worlds.
similar tale comes from the Muslim world. In it, Alexander the Greatâs political adviser Khidr makes it through the Land of Darkness to come upon a spring that could grant him immortality.
Itâs believed that aqueducts were originally introduced to supply the bathhouses, which were popular in the city,
The free water was contained in public basins called lacĹŤs.
The free water was contained in public basins called lacĹŤs. To have water flowing into your home, you had to pay a tax
he was the first to realize that water could be politicized.
The relationship between drinking unsafe water and disease wasnât discovered until the mid-nineteenth century.
plenty of reasons why ancient societies preferred beer and wine over water, but the main one was that people sometimes got very sick when drinking HâO.
1748, New York Cityâs drinking water was so badly polluted by excrement, tadpoles and waste from slaughterhouses and tanneries that a journalist proclaimed, âhorses from out of town wouldnât drink it.â
commonly held belief that diseases like cholera were caused by pathogens in the air, although crowded streets were increasingly flooded with dirty industrial runoff. Finally, the link between water and disease became apparent.
After the arrival of the Dutch in Manhattan around the mid-seventeenth century, the only nearby water source was the Kalch-Hook, a seven-acre pond that was later called âthe Collect.â The pond was described in a letter to the New York Evening Journal as containing âabominable fluid.â
the nineteenth-century Thames contained contaminated water. Indeed, in 1858 London hosted
the nineteenth-century
the nineteenth-century Thames contained contaminated water.
âcleanliness is next to godlinessâ
Populations of wildlife living near water sources all over the world have been found to have dangerous levels of endocrine disruptors.
and lead to abnormalities in the immune and reproductive systems
a beluga whale in Canada was found with levels of endocrine disruptors such as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCB, at ten times the minimum amount that would qualify as toxic waste.
In 1902, Middelkerke in Belgium was the first town to add chlorine to its water source and effectively kill dangerous bacteria. By 1941, chlorinated systems were found in 85 percent of the United States.
Batman Begins, the villain Scarecrow contaminates Gothamâs waters with a fatal toxin. The plot draws on our paranoia about someone poisoning our water supplies, a fear that isnât as far-fetched as youâd think.
only takes the determination of a bored teen to potentially jeopardize
Missouri in 1993, where seven people died from salmonella poisoning because bird poo ended up in the water supply.
The sight of all those plastic bottles is worrying, but the manufacturing of plastic itself requires water. Three to four liters of water are needed to create a one-liter plastic bottle, and each day an estimated 30 million bottles of water end up in the trash. The state of California alone is responsible for the disposal of one billion bottles every year.
1996, the South African government amended its constitution after Apartheid was abolished, creating a new system that would provide each citizen with 6.6 gallons of free water per day.
we are drinking the same water as the dinosaurs.
20 percent of the worldâs freshwater is contained in the Great Lakes between Canada and the United States.
researchers even went so far as to suggest that, in the right conditions, itâs feasible to move a seven-million-ton iceberg from Greenland to the Canary Islands and lose only three million tons along the way.
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2006) is a look at human
A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2006) is a look at human history through an unusual lens: our favorite drinks. These blinks outline the global rise of beer, wine, alcoholic spirits, tea, coffee and soda, and how they each played into major historical developments as they spread around the world.
