Hydration Helps: How Better Hydration Can Improve Your Life

Water is fascinating. It’s the most important substance on the planet, as well as for our bodies. Without water, we wouldn’t exist, and neither would any of the living things around us.

Most adults understand that they shouldn’t go days (or even hours) without drinking any water, yet many adults are not sufficiently hydrated. Some adults are drinking too many sugary or alcoholic beverages, while others aren’t drinking at all because they’re too busy or forgetful.

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Whatever the case, drinking more water can drastically improve one’s health and quality of life. Check out a few of these simple ways that improved hydration can translate into improved health.

Stay awake! Being hydrated helps you stay awake. A dehydrated body is also …

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Going Green for Halloween: Don’t Spook the Environment

October 31 is supposed to be spooky, that doesn’t mean you need scare away the environment. While you’re taking care of the earth during the rest of the year, don’t neglect Halloween! Go green on Halloween with these helpful household, decorating, and costume tips.

Use the whole pumpkin. Pumpkins are the go-to Halloween decorative symbol, but do you typically throw away the innards? Bake a pie with the insides, bake the seeds to a crispy crunch, and compost the shell when you no longer want to decorate your porch with a seasonal ghoul or goblin.

Going Green for Halloween

Walk, don’t drive. Instead of driving to other neighborhoods for trick-or-treating, stay close to home and walk from house to house to cut down on …

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How to Install a Tyent Water Ionizer: MMP 7070

If you already own a Tyent water ionizer, you know how easy it is to get alkaline water straight from your tap. But if you’re still thinking about whether or not you’d like to get one in your home, you may be wondering how easy it is to install a water ionizer.

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Here, you can see a quick-and-visual round up of how to install a Tyent water ionizer. In this video, we reference the Tyent MMP 7070, but these instructions also work for a Tyent MMP 7070 Turbo or Tyent MMP 9090 Turbo Extreme.

Within 15-25 minutes, exchange your potentially harmful tap water for alkaline water that’s sure to hydrate you better and add beneficial minerals to your diet. …

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Vote on Your Favorite Kitchen!

It’s National Kitchen and Bath Month! We’re celebrating by highlighting a few lovely, but very different, kitchens.

Vote on your favorite, and tell us why in the comments.

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Fitness Tips: How to Keep Your Exercise Routine Intact After Summer’s Over

The weather has cooled, a chilly wind is blowing, and the couch is calling your name. In the summertime, it’s easy to keep your fitness levels high with the pressures of swimsuit season and beautiful weather to stay active. But when the fall and winter seasons hit, many of us find ourselves more comfortable lounging at home than at the gym.

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Try these tried-and-true fitness tips to keep your exercise regime going after the sun has set on summertime.

Buy a gym membership. It sounds simple, but you’re more likely to use a gym membership if you actually pay for it instead of relying on free workouts (like your home treadmill or a run around the neighborhood).…

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Superfoods: 6 Foods You Need to Start Eating Now

Thanks to the antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals present in certain foods, adding them to your diet can actually function as a sort of medicine. With the many ailments present in the modern day—stemming from pollution, plastic products, poor food production, and more—we recommend adding these “superfoods” into your diet now for better health in the present and the future.

Maybe you already know you should be eating these foods, but you haven’t started yet—or maybe you didn’t know these foods were so healthy. Either way, start adding these superfoods to your daily menu, and reap the benefits.  (Thanks to WebMD for the resources!)

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Blueberries. Yielding antioxidants, vitamin C, and anti-inflammatory properties, start grabbing a handful of these …

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5 Top Trends in Contemporary Kitchen Design

Kitchens are no longer just a place for food preparation. The modern kitchen is the family command center: where homework is completed, news is shared, decisions are made, and yes, meals are prepared and enjoyed.

Want a modern kitchen? The top trends in contemporary kitchen design follow:

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White: Above all, one hopes their kitchen is a clean, sanitary place to prepare food. Fresh, white walls and countertops create a sense of cleanliness, while also making the space feel more open, spacious, and modern. Plus, white walls and countertops really force the cleanliness issue, keeping residents accountable to regular cleaning of the unforgiving, white surfaces.

Lighting: The modern kitchen is extremely well-lit. Along the same lines as …

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Video: Water Ionizer Comparison – Tyent vs. Kangen

Have you been trying to decide which water ionizer is right for your home? Buying a new water ionizer is a big investment in your health, and we at Tyent want to help give you all the information you need to choose the best, longest-lasting unit.

If you’re looking for in-depth and detailed research on the different types of water ionizers available on the market, we recommend checking out this 14-minute video on the benefits of alkaline ionized water—and how Tyent and one competitor, Kangen, fits in. Watch the video here:

Interested in the different varieties of warranty-guaranteed Tyent water ionizers? Check out our full line-up of high-quality water ionizers now. For more videos from Tyent on what makes our …

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You Know What’s In Your Water. Now What?

If you’ve just downloaded your free water report, you’ve seen a list of the contaminants in your local tap water. But what does that mean for you and your family? And what are the best alternatives?

Research on water and hydration shows a few key facts about the differences between water, whether that’s tap, bottled water, reverse-osmosis water, or alkaline ionized water.

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Tap water protects us from the mass contamination found in well water, which is an important advancement in water technology. But chemicals are added to tap water to do a number of things, like adjust the pH and remove contaminants (such as chlorine) to kill biological toxins.  Though tap water is now regulated by the …

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Clean Green: Ways to Clean and Sanitize the Eco-Friendly Way

While it’s always admirable to show the world you’re a clean freak, your incessant cleaning could actually be harming the environment. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) states that certain cleaning products are associated with health and environmental risks, including damage to water bodies, poor air quality, and increased pollution. You can read a lot of material about the negative effects of cleaning products on the environment, but at Tyent, we’ve arrived at the conclusion that the green-cleaning way is the better way.

How to clean without these harmful products? Here are a few eco-friendly suggestions to implement into your cleaning routine. (Thanks to Apartment Therapy for the resources.)

Cleaning grout and grime: For floors and tiles, safe and nontoxic baking …

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