Blue Gold. That is the nickname that mineral water receives, referring to the usual color of the bottles that contain it, but also to the enormous business that has been mounted around it.

A surprising business, where tap water is potable throughout the country, and significantly cheaper . Are there then reasons to pay for drinking bottled water?

We have the Christmas holidays around the corner , and with them come the business lunches and dinners, family events, the Christmas Eve celebrations, the end of the year and the night of kings … And staying true to our diet is done in difficult occasions, so skipping the diet is usually something more common than we think, but then on January 1 we all repent and make new amendment purposes (as every year at this time).

Although we all think that in summer we are only at risk of dehydration, the reality is that in the cold season we are also vulnerable , especially because we are less thirsty, we do not feel the sweat as in summer and we become reluctant to consume foods with high water content . Therefore, we remind you that staying well hydrated in winter is also important and we left nine ideas to achieve it.

Although we associate the word stress with negative connotations , scientifically speaking, stress is neither good nor bad.

Stress is defined as the physiological reaction of the body when it has to face a threatening situation or more demanding than usual . This reaction consists of a response of the sympathetic nervous system of fight or flight : either one faces the threat or one looks for an escape route to get away from it.

Surely you have heard on more than one occasion that 10,000 steps a day is the magic number you must walk to lose weight. But as we have, everything that glitters after that figure is not gold.

The main drawback of this idea is that it is the same figure for everyone, regardless of their age, their weight, the weight they want to lose or their eating habits. Although promoting physical exercise is an essential part of healthy habits, hardly one recommendation will serve everyone equally.

Imbalances in the intestinal microbiota contribute to inflammatory diseases of the large intestine. Interestingly, exercise can improve intestinal health, but in general, little is known about the underlying mechanisms involved.

A recent review published in this year 2017 has represented a conceptual model that illustrates the role of exercise in the diversification of the intestinal microbiota to improve intestinal and systemic health.

Often the problems to lose weight are not limited to the difficulty of losing weight, but to keep us in our new weight once we have reached it.

The best advice to achieve this is to convert the fact of dieting into a complete change of habits to eat healthier and get used to exercise so that these are our new habits and do not abandon them once we have lost those kilos that we considered that we had left over.

When we talk about mental illnesses , it is common for there to be some confusion: it is not the same to spend a sad, down, or discouraged season than to suffer from depression ; it is not the same to have sporadic mood swings than to suffer a bipolar disorder; It is not the same to eat one more day than is convenient to suffer an eating disorder .

The same goes for anxiety . Feeling nervous and anxious from time to time is normal. It can happen before an exam, if we have an important assignment at work or personal problems that concern us especially. That is not the same as suffering from an anxiety disorder .

When talking about cardiovascular training protocols , surely all of you will come to mind a training method : the HIIT method. This method is characterized by performing a high intensity cardiovascular work in short periods of time, saving us training time if we do not have a lot of time to train.

But how many of you have heard about the LISS training method ? The acronym LISS corresponds to the abbreviation of Low Intensity Steady State, and it is a low intensity training but joined to a constant effort during a long period of time (from 30 to 60 minutes approximately).

When we talk about strength training , there are two ways of working most used today: the method based on our RM, or maximum repetition (which is the maximum weight that we can move in a single repetition) or the RIR method (Reps In Reserve or Repetitions In Reserve) or effort perception method.