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1.  What’s one life lesson your buddy has taught you?  What have you learned by working with your buddy.

2.  By the end of the year, what’s one lesson you would like your buddy to learn from you?

Is a Sauna Healthy for You?

By: Rachel  

If you want a easy way to relax, and cleanse the pores and just feel good about yourself, you need to get yourself to a sauna. What a sauna does is it gets hot enough that you sweat, when you sweat it opens millions of pores all over the body. When all your pores open up, the circulation of your blood increases and creates an overall great relaxing feeling for anyone.

Here are some of the advantages of the sauna:

-circulation

-healthier skin

-more colored skin

-relaxation

-detoxification

-lowers blood pressure

-reduces risk of atherosclerosis

Scientists and doctors also claim that when the body temperature is raised that much a substance is released called nitric oxide synthase, into the blood dilating the coronary arteries and in time marketing your heart healthier.

The disadvantages of using a sauna are:

-the effects of the sauna are very unpredictable so many people don’t know what it could do to them

-when a person gets into a sauna there heart rate jumps over 30%

-most of the blood flow is directed to the skin

-the circulation shunts blood away from the internal organs

-blood pressure is very unpredictable

So in the end a sauna may be nice once in a while for a little bit, but if you are constantly in it, that could have some effects on you that may not be to good, aside from opening you pores and making you relax I really do not find a benefit in a sauna you could really have some, somewhat serious side affects.

I think that a sauna is good for you if you only stay in it for no more than 15-20 minutes long, and if you do not have any heart problems. A sauna is good for you because it makes you sweat. Sweating causes a lot of different positive effects on your body. Sweat will flush out lot of the toxins in your body. This will help your body fight illness and infection. Removing toxins also will help improve blood circulation which can help your breathing. A sauna will raise your blood pressure and create the skin  to be healthier. The sauna creates an easy way to improve skin problems. If you visit the sauna often you will start to lose weight. After awhile an average person burns up to 3 hundred calories in 1 session. Another reason to insure that a sauna is good for you is that the it relieves soreness and joints, and you experience fewer colds, flu symptoms, and sinus congestion.

All of these effects support my opinion that a sauna is good for you. And that it proves to be an easy fix to a lot of problems. Visits a sauna frequently can help you lose weight, keep clean skin, and remove bacteria and excess oils from your body. Along with all these it also is a place where you and your, muscles can  relax easily.        

By:Angie

Http:// www.medicalewsworthygoday.com/realeases/ 32367.php

http://astronutrition.com/blog/sauna_good_you

http://www.ehow.com/about_5063027_sauna-good.html

I thought that my research was a great success. I found out many new things about how saunas are mainly healthy for you. There are only a few things that are not good about saunas. One of those is that if you are a young child you should not be going in saunas. Another one is that if you are in the sauna long enough your body temperature can rise to above 104 degrees fahrenheit, which is above your normal body temperature. There are many good reasons that a sauna can do for you. Some of the reasons are that the sauna can really help your muscles relax, it can help treat your skin like pimples, blackheads, and acne, the sauna can also lower your blood pressure if you have higher blood pressure than you are suppose to have.

Over the research I think I have found more pro’s about saunas than con’s. I really think out of all the positive things I found about saunas I would have to say that saunas are not super healthy for you, but they are not that bad for you. I think that it is cool how saunas can solve many things like improving your heart and relieve your stress in life. Researching saunas really surprised me because I never realized how many great things a sauna can do for you and your body.

By: Brett

Are Saunas Healthy For You?

Saunas can be very therapeutic and healthy if you use them right. They can relive muscle stress from exercising. It can also stop flu-like symptoms by inducing a fever and putting organs into hyper drive. After only ten minutes in the sauna, you heart rate will increase by 50-75%, the same as after vigorous exercise. The steam from the sauna can also help respiratory problem such as bronchitis.

When you sauna you sweat over a pint in ten minutes, which can clean toxins from you skin. This results in healthy looking, glowing skin. But this can also hurt you.

The few problem with going in the sauna is that if you stay in for too long, there are a few health risks. One is you could become dehydrated, which you can easily cure by drinking two to four cups of cold water. You can also cool off too fast, which you can prevent by slowly and gradually cooling off. Finally, never stay in a sauna for more than ten to twenty minutes, because you could end up over heating.

Hailey

http://www.saunafin.com/health_benefits.htm

http://cyberbohemia.com/Pages/saunahealth.htm

http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/sauna_health_benefits