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Bee Well’s Buzz on Health: Hydration Tip #1 of 6
Summer is prime time for outdoor sports, family vacations, BBQs, festivals and long days in the sun. While you are enjoying those activities and the hot weather, it’s easy to be hit by dehydration—and most people don’t see it coming. Summer is also prime time for electrolyte imbalances and even heat stroke—all of which are more common than you might think. Let’s explain.
Today, more than 50 percent of all children and adolescents in the U.S. are not getting the hydration they need, according to research from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. And that number jumps even higher when you put them, or adults for that matter, on the playing field. In a study in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism of 11- to 16-year-old children participating in a summer soccer camp, nine out of 10 of them were under-hydrated, putting them at risk of serious health complications. Older folks are even more susceptible to dehydration.
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