Drinking 8 glasses of water everyday is a healthy habit. Yup! And I do this too, to be fit and healthy.

Since I was a kid, I drink at least 8 glasses of water and even more than the minimum when I feel like my tonsils are swollen or I’m gonna catch a cold.

A friend of mine told me that she has a different habit, which is according to her, a healthier one! She drinks extra 750 ml of water in the morning before breakfast, aside from the recommended daily intake of 8 glasses. In this habit, it allows the body to use only the 750ml of water to flush away all the toxins that the body has. All the unwanted substances in the body are washed away when you perspire or urinate after drinking, I tried to do the same and I felt more refreshed after drinking that much liquid just after jumping out of bed.

There are a lot of benefits when you drink enough water everyday. It cleanses the body by washing away toxins and other unwanted substance. Because of this, our skin becomes clearer and fairer = less pimples and it also replenishes the lost minerals when we perspire after a physical activity = a healthier body..

Drinking 8 or more glasses of water a day is a healthy habit. Just be careful not to drown yourself with water more than what the body needs. Or else minerals which are equally important to the body will be drowned too.

Deformed cans in canned drinks or goods are dangerous to your health!

According to our Degradation of Materials professor, tin cans are made of two materials: Tin and Aluminum. These two materials have different properties and are used in different applications.

Corrosion, a form of degradation, takes place in different scenarios. And one of these is exposure of two metals in contact to factors that causes corrosion such as water, air and stress, etc. Tin and aluminum have different responses to certain amounts of water, air and stress. If two materials in contact have different responses to external factors, and are exposed to these, the weaker material becomes the sacrificial material and be the one to degrade first.

When the tin cans are deformed, “wounds” in the can causes the two metals in contact to be exposed to either the water or air inside the can itself, or the external factors that also causes corrosion. These wounds are where corrosion takes place. It creates a nucleating point and is where rust, the degraded form of metal, is formed. Rust is an unwanted form of the metal since it contaminates the contents of the can and it is dangerous to our health

So when you buy canned products in the store, make sure to choose undeformed cans to make sure you won’t eat the rust caused by the degradation.