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Great Healthy Tips: Make Fitness Fun

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Today’s Great Healthy Tip:

Engage in activities you enjoy, like dancing or swimming, to make fitness fun.

We tend to stay with something we enjoy. I’m a good swimmer and I like swimming, but I don’t go swimming. There’s lots of reasons I stay out of the pool. Chlorine is one of them. Instead I do weights M W F and Monday through Friday I try to wear out the elliptical machine for 50 minutes each day, I’ve tried a number of different weight machines. One of my favorites is the pull up assist machine. Not too many people use it, but it works for me. Find things that work for you and go for it.

Today’s Health Tip ~ Is Swimming In Chlorine Treated Pools Safe?

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You May Want to Think Twice About Jumping in a Chlorine Treated Pool

The real danger [in swimming in chlorine treated swimming pools is not the pool chemicals themselves, but how they mix with other chemicals that people bring to the water. Urine, along with body care products like shampoos, lotions and conditioners, interacts with chlorine to form volatile organic compounds that can be unhealthy to breathe.

“After the chlorine reacts, you create a whole spectrum of potentially dangerous molecules,” said Andrew Chadeayne, a former college swimmer and a patent lawyer with a doctorate in chemistry. “The ones we know about are irritating to eyes and the respiratory system.” . . . There’s no conclusive evidence that exposure to these compounds might lead to serious problems, such as cancer, but “the other thing to really worry about is a lot of them have never been studied at all.”

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