Have you ever heard someone say “You are what you eat.” Well what about what you drink?

With so many new energy drinks, wellness drinks, some new juice promising to be the fountain of youth. Do you really know what you’re putting in your body?

It’s so easy to be overwhelmed with all the different marketing ads peddling and pushing the latest drink products that sometimes, it’s just best to get back to the basics.

If you were to look at a world map or globe, you would be able to quickly identify that our world consists of mostly water. To be more precise, the worlds surface is consumed by more than 70%.

That’s for a reason. Water itself is the basis for all life on this world INCLUDING you body. Our bodies need to be able to replenish the water it uses on a daily basis. As Adam Sandler in the “Water Boy” would say, “We need some high quality H2O.”

Simply put it this way if you’re feeling a bit sluggish or suddenly feel a craving for something to drink, that may be your body telling you that its water supply is low. Grab yourself a tall glass of water, enjoy it and see how you feel.

Resist the urge to grab your favorite fountain drinks and carbonated drinks.

Here are some facts:

Your muscles are 75% water

Your lungs are 90% water

Your bones are 25% water.

Your blood that transport nutrients is 82% water

Your brain that is the nerve center of your body is 76% water

As Baby Boomers, our health is not only dependent on quality of food that we eat, but also on the quantity of the water we drink. Make drinking enough natural water a habit in your life and in a short period of time you will begin to notice the benefits of it. I don’t think that any of us need some big marketing companies’ ad to tell us the importance of drinking water since it should be natural for us to do.

Do you think that all baby boomers are all alike and created equal?  Baby Boomers are the “Woodstock generation” — In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values; however, many commentators have disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity of values with older and younger generations.[1]

Just like everything else, there are many different stereotypes about us Boomers.  Let’s take a look at a few and see if any really add up. Boomers are comprised primarily of active adults, characterized as people who are aged 55 years or older. The active part, well that can be a bit subjective.

Baby Boomers are now middle age and entering senior years and while most Americans say it is more difficult for middle class people to maintain their standard of living than it was five years ago. Baby Boomers are changing their retirement.

Why is that though? Well, it’s not that we were not prepared, or preparing for retirement. Many of us were well set. Unfortunately, with the lack luster economic down turn, or to be more politically correct, the “economic correction of the markets” as so many people call our current state of economy. Most of us Boomers were slapped with this overcorrection, and are beginning to hit the age of retirement as our net worth in real estate and stocks has been wiped out.  This really left many of us with no choice but change or rethink our retirement strategy.

At the same time many Baby Boomers are not ready to stop working. Some have even started to work with children or young entrepreneurs as they have years of knowledge and skills to share, and feel that it’s their way of leaving a lasting mark on the world.

The stereotype that Boomers are technology challenged just perpetuates things.  Surprisingly, more and more Boomers are embracing technology. Everything from the iPhone to social media, we have found our way around and have embraced the changing times.

However, like any other generation, there are some that take longer than others to move towards change. Sometimes change comes so quickly that by the time that ANY generation catches up, someone is on to the next big thing. Take the overhaul of Facebook for example, it wasn’t just Boomers who stood heals dug in unwilling to embrace the home page feed feature, or the vanity name change option, but many of the 50 million Facebook users felt that they liked the old way better.

Sure you may not catch too many Boomers on Hulu.com catching up on past American Idol reruns but in such a fast paced world that we live in, who is?  Boomers, in large numbers are traveling the world using the internet every day. So to say that we are technically challenged is a far cry from the truth. But hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Reference URL 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Boomer