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Regular cycling at a healthy level benefits many of the body’s organs and systems. The heart and circulatory system: the heart beats faster to pump blood around the body more quickly and supply enough oxygen to the muscles, allowing them to do work. At rest, the heart normally pumps about four liters of blood per minute. During moderate aerobic activities such as cycling, about 20 liters of blood per minute circulate throughout the body. The heart itself is a muscle. When exercised as in cycling, it gets bigger and stronger, just like your biceps. People who take part in regular physical activity have a lowered risk of cardiovascular disease compared with those who don’t.

And for blood, regular aerobic activity prevents or delays high blood pressure. If you already have the condition, cycling can lower it. Exercise improves muscle strength, coordination and balance. It lessens the likelihood of falls in the elderly and aids joint mobility and lubrication.  Muscle endurance and tone result, with working muscle groups like calves and thighs becoming prominent. Posture also improves.

A urinary tract infection or UTI is an infection of any portion of the urinary tract. If it affects kidneys, it is called pyelonephritis; if it affects the bladder-which is more common- it is called cystitis. UTI is usually caused by bacteria from the anus entering the urethra and spreading to the bladder. This leads to inflammation because they have shorter urethras; women tend to develop bladder infections more than men.  Other UTI risk factors include infrequent urination, kidney stones and enlarged prostate n men, all of which can cause stasis or stagnation of urine inside the bladder providing a fertile breeding environment for bacteria.

To treat uncomplicated cases of cystisis, the patient usually prescribed just a short three-day course of antibiotics and advised to increase fluid intake. Longer antibiotic treatment courses are usually prescribed for elderly patients, men and patients with diabetes other chronic conditions or recurrent infections. Patients with pyelonephritis almost need to be hospitalized and given intravenous antibiotics.

Although we take them for granted, our feet are a very important part of our body. They are there for walking running and balance. Without them, even standing up would be hard to do. If you have diabetes, you are more likely to develop foot problems. These can be prevented, mainly by maintaining healthy blood glucose and blood pressure levels, taking good care of your feet everyday and working closely with your doctor if you have a foot problem. Of all the problems that can arise from diabetes, serious foot conditions resulting in amputation are the easiest to prevent.

How can damage to my nerves cause foot problems? Your nerves perform many functions, one of the most important being to give you feeling to protect you from getting injured. People with diabetes sometimes develop nerve damage to the feet or your entire foot or a part of it, can become numb or insensitive to pain.

I read somewhere that drinking too much can actually “drown” you. Is it true? I would like to try water fasting, but the notion of dying because of drowning from drinking excessive amounts of water scares me. It is not so much the ‘drowning’ as it is the “diluting” that you need to watch out for. Our body fluids contain salts such as sodium, which are vital for fluid balance between the bold and the cells. Normally, our body has control mechanisms that maintain this balance, so that we consume huge amounts of water, our body compensate by eliminating excess fluids in the urine.

However, when we lose body fluids, we also lose body salts. During excessive body loss, replacing loses salts with pure water only will dilute the salt supply in our body. We end up with salt imbalance. Hyponatremia can cause the cells of the body to dangerously swell and malfunction. Therefore, water fating is a good idea.