Do You Know These Unexpected Ways to Stay Safe in Summer Heat?
Do You Know These Unexpected Ways to Stay Safe in Summer Heat?
Worried about keeping cool?  Experts offer some surprising tips to beat the heat waves this summer.

Staying out of direct sunlight, using fans, and eating hydrating foods – like fruits and vegetables – are tips you may have already heard of.  But eating smaller meals in the afternoon?  That, too, can provide a cooling effect.

Digestion heats the body up,” Doctor Mark Conroy says.  “It’s best to eat a larger breakfast when it’s still cool out, and a larger dinner at night when it’s also cooler.”

It’s also a good idea to freeze a bottle of water, the day before you expect to be outside in the heat, and drink it gradually, as it melts.  Even better:  put the frozen one in an insulated lunch bag with two more, which are still liquid.

And, if you don’t have air conditioning, place two 2-liter bottles of frozen water (ice) behind your fan, and the air will come through, cooler.

Learn more, here:  (Yahoo! News)

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