If you weigh 150 lbs. and it takes you 30 minutes to swim one mile (1,760 yards or 1,609 meters), then you will be using about 900 calories in one hour. However, many swimmers do not swim that quickly, and many cannot swim for that distance or duration, so swimming to lose weight is not always the best plan.
Grape Juice. Some men may use grape juice in hopes of reducing the risk of prostate problems. Grape juice often is made from whole grapes, including the skin and seeds. The juice contains a phytochemical called resveratrol. Resveratrol has been studied for its effect on prostate health.
The results appear in Nutrition Journal. In the study, 15 men and 15 women drank either 17.6 ounces of a beet juice beverage consisting of about three-fourths beet juice and one-fourth apple juice, or a placebo juice. They were then monitored for 24 hours. The same procedure was repeated two weeks later, with those who drank the placebo on the first round receiving beetroot juice on the second. Among both men and women, the results showed a trend to lower systolic blood pressure six hours after drinking the beet juice. But when researchers limited their analysis to men only, they found a significant reduction of about 4.7 points among those who drank the beetroot juice.