This is a summer season and the sun is in its full form spreading its heat all over the country officially and after all, complain also the heat not decreasing. The Sun is not going to leave us after all these global warming and every day the heat seems to be increasing only. Due to which we losing the water from the body is quite obvious and those who are working outside below the direct sun rays can get the taste of heat. Our body needs water and it is very much essential to give a proper water supply to the body time to time. If we fail to keep the water level ratio in our body upto a proper proportion, then we may find a decrease in attention, mismatch coordination, lack in reaction speed and not able to solve problems properly.
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The research was done by Georgia Institute of Technology, Mindy Millard-Stafford, a professor said, "The simplest reaction time tasks were least impacted, even as dehydration got worse, but tasks that require attention were quite impacted,", he continued, "Maintaining focus in a long meeting, driving a car, a monotonous job in a hot factory that requires you to stay alert are some of them," said Millard-Stafford. "Higher-order functions like doing math or applying logic also dropped off." He also added, "There's already a lot of quantitative documentation that if you lose 2 percent in water it affects physical abilities like muscle endurance or sports tasks and your ability to regulate your body temperature,". "We wanted to see if that was similar for cognitive function.", Millard-Stafford explained.
Millard-Stafford also warned about to much intake of water also not good for the human health. Millard-Stafford added, "You can have too much water, something called hyponatremia," and continued, "Some people overly aggressively, out of a fear of dehydration, drink so much water that they dilute their blood and their brain swells."
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The research was done by Georgia Institute of Technology, Mindy Millard-Stafford, a professor said, "The simplest reaction time tasks were least impacted, even as dehydration got worse, but tasks that require attention were quite impacted,", he continued, "Maintaining focus in a long meeting, driving a car, a monotonous job in a hot factory that requires you to stay alert are some of them," said Millard-Stafford. "Higher-order functions like doing math or applying logic also dropped off." He also added, "There's already a lot of quantitative documentation that if you lose 2 percent in water it affects physical abilities like muscle endurance or sports tasks and your ability to regulate your body temperature,". "We wanted to see if that was similar for cognitive function.", Millard-Stafford explained.
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