Is it healthy to drink a gallon of water a day? I’m looking to improve my health in many ways that include increasing my water intake. Is a gallon a day bad for me? Can drinking too much water cause health issues?
It depends a lot on where you live - the hotter the region, the more you need to drink. Try a gallon a day. Then monitor your urine. As long as your urine is clear, not yellow or dark yellow, you are drinking enough. If you exercise and begin to sweat, you will also need to drink more. Ditto for using a sauna or steam room.Do try and do the majority of your water drinking during the day - providing of course that you have a job that lets you use the rest room (this can be problematic if you teach school, or work a factory job or retail), then tail off by the evening so you can sleep through the night without having to wake up to pass urine.I would say this should make you healthier, not cause problems. If you can go with filtered water, rather than tap.Many, many people go through their day dehydrated. If you stay dehydrated long enough, your brain will turn off the signals that tell you to be thirsty, and it make take a few days of drinking enough to turn them back on.Often times the brain will also signal hunger when what is really happening is thirst.Play around with it, see how it works for you. Start your day with two 16 ounce glasses of water, before coffee or breakfast and drink plenty during the day. Drink a glass before lunch, and ditto before dinner.A gallon is certainly not too much, and again, if you live in a hot humid climate, it may not be enough.I have lived in both Texas - hot or hot and humid - and Minnesota - very cold but dry cold - and found that people did not drink enough water. In Minnesota lots and lots of people had dry skin and dry lips and were endlessly putting on creams and chap sticks when what they really needed was to drink more water.
Does adding water to wine / spirits reduce the alcohol content?
It certainly decreases the percentage of alcohol by volume (ABV) in the drink, but if you consider the diluted drink as a whole, it's still got the same total amount of alcohol in it, just more water.For example if you take a litre of vodka with a 50% ABV - it's 50% alcohol and 50% water (I'm ignoring trace ingredients for this purpose) - there are 500 millilitres of alcohol in it. If you add a further litre of water to it, the ABV is reduced down to 25%, however there are still 500 millilitres of alcohol in the resultant drink.So no, it doesn't reduce the total alcohol content, however it does reduce its strength for any given volume. In other words if you drink say 50ml of the 50% ABV vodka, you'll be consuming 25ml of alcohol, but if you drink 50ml of the diluted vodka, you'll only be consuming 12.5ml of alcohol. If you somehow managed to drink the entire bottle - don't even think about it! - you still be ingesting the same total amount of alcohol though, diluted or not! Does this answer your question?
Which drink is good for health in small quantity: beer, rum, brandy, whisky, vodka, or scotch?
Every Alocohol is bad if you consume more regularly. Consuming more alcohol like Whisky and Rum, Vodka etc regularly may leads to liver damage and heart diseases. I prefer beer than any other alcohol, Drinking alcoholic beverages, including beer, by healthy people seems to reduce the risk of developing heart disease.There is some evidence that drinking alcohol can benefit the heart. Drinking one alcoholic beverage per day or drinking alcohol on at least 3 to 4 days per week is a good rule of thumb for people who drink alcohol. But don’t drink more than two drinks per day. More than two drinks daily can increase the risk of over-all death as well as dying from heart disease. Here is what researchers have foundFrom my point of view drinking 350 ml of beer or 30 to 60 ml of whisky or Rum everyday will help you increase your immunity level and also helps in preventing may other diseases like heart disease etcThere are no hard-and-fast rules across alcohol categories; the total calorie count can vary considerably depending on what goes into your drink-of-choice. Let's say you're just having one drink. Generally speaking, a serving of wine has fewer calories than a serving of beer, which in turn has fewer calories than a serving of many mixed drinks. Naturally, that's far too easy, and as such, is not always true.Let's break it down by type:Healthy Tips: “ For brevity, If you’re focusing on calories and skipping talk about carbs and other dietary aspects of drinks. As everyone knows, for example, beer has a lot of carbs. Most wines and liquors are low-carb affairs”.Note: Be careful, More Alocohol is dangerous to Health.
Chemistry help - Calculating the pH of a solution?
Question a) You have produced a propionic acid. potassium propionate buffer soloution. The pH of a buffer solution is determined using the Henderson - Hasselbalch equation: You need: pKa propionic acid = 4.87 Molarity of CH3CH2COOH = 0.085M Molarity of CH3CH2COOK = 0.06M Equation: pH = pKa + log ([salt]/[acid] ) pH = 4.87 + log (0.06/0.085) pH = 4.87 + log 0.706 pH = 4.87 + (-0.15) pH = 4.72 Question b) you have a basic buffer. Easier to solve for pOH and convert to pH The Kb value for (CH3)3N is 6.5 x 10-5. pKb = -log (6.5*10^-5) = 4.19 pOH = pKa + log (salt]/[base]) pOH = 4.19 + log ( 0.10/0.075) pOH = 4.19 + log 1.33 pOH = 4.19 + 0.12 pOH = 4.31 pH = 14.00- pOH pH = 9.69 Question c: Once again you hace an acetic acid/ sodium acetate buffer pKa for CH3COOH = 4.74 Molarity of Acetic acid - the final volume is 100mL M1V1 = M2V2 M1*100 = 0.15* 50 M1 = 0.15*50/100 = 0.075M Molarity of CH3COONa M1*100 = 0.20/50 = 0.10M Now substitute into the H-H equation: pH = pKa + log ([salt]/[acid]) pH = 4.74 + log( 0.10/0.075) pH = 4.74 + log 1.33 pH = 4.74 + 0.12 pH = 4.86 You must be given the pKa or pKb values in an exam, or a reference list that allows you to access this data. You should not be required to remember these values.
What's tonic water?
The Truth About Tonic WaterTonic Water BenefitsTonic water (or Indian tonic water) is a carbonated soft drink in which quinine is dissolved. Originally used as a prophylactic against malaria, tonic water usually now has a significantly lower quinine content and is consumed for its distinctive bitter flavor. It is often used in mixed drinks, particularly in gin and tonic.Quinine is a bitter compound that comes from the bark of the cinchona tree. The tree is most commonly found in South America, Central America, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of the western coast of Africa. Quinine was originally developed as a medicine to fight malaria.Know More About Tonic WaterQuinine, when found in small doses in tonic water, is safe to consume. The first tonic waters contained powdered quinine, sugar, and soda water. Tonic water has since become a common mixer with liquor, the most well-known combination being gin and tonic.Today, people sometimes drink tonic water to treat nighttime leg cramps associated with circulatory or nervous system problems. However, this treatment is not recommended. Quinine is still given in in small doses to treat malaria in tropical regions.Tonic Water DrawbackIs tonic water healthy? It sounds like it should be because it has "water" in the name. But this popular mixer is loaded with 124 calories per bottle. Find out what's in tonic water that makes it less healthy than sparkling water or mineral water.The reason that tonic water is relatively high in calories is that it contains a sweetener in some form. Some brands contain high fructose corn syrup, while other brands include cane sugar or simply sugar in the ingredients. When you add an alcoholic ingredient, like gin, to make a gin and tonic cocktail, the calorie count can increase to 200 calories or more per serving.Tonic water can also be a source of sodium, depending on the variety that you buy and the amount that you drink.