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Making water more accessible to kids leads to an increase in hydration and a decrease in children being overweight, according to a new study. And the change didn’t require a focus on children ...
In 2020, it was projected that approximately 150 million additional children would be living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health care, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis jointly carried out by Save the Children and UNICEF. [26]
The COVID-19 pandemic has also greatly affected the urban poor living in the slums with little or no access to clean water. [25] [26] The pandemic has shown the importance of sanitation, hygiene and adequate access to clean water to prevent diseases. According to the World Health Organization, handwashing is one of the most effective actions ...
The research data suggest that the pandemic has negative effects on both weight loss and food health monitoring but the effects were short lived results. [17] Paying attention and taking measures to prevent mental health problems and post-traumatic stress syndrome, particularly in women, is already a need. [18]
This bonanza of new hydration products plays to a basic but critical need: More than 50% of people around the globe, including in the U.S., are chronically underhydrated, according to the National ...
Staying hydrated has been shown to boost the immune system and protect against illness. Water is always best, but other hydrating fluids include plain coffee or tea, sparkling or flavored waters ...
In some undeveloped countries, water utilities have worked with governments to temporarily suspend billing for vulnerable groups. This was an effort to mitigate the impact of using extra water during the pandemic while people were out of work. The implementation of this process caused a huge loss in revenue for water companies. [100]
Dehydration was a major cause of death during the 1829 cholera pandemic in Russia and Western Europe. In 1831, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy noted the changes in blood composition and loss of water and salt in the stool of people with cholera and prescribed intravenous fluid therapy (IV fluids).