To keep your body cool the following will be useful:
- For breakfast – Fermented ragi porridge, Pazhaya sorru are preferable.
- Midmorning – Tender coconut, butter milk, neeragarum, lazzi etc are good to refresh the body.
- Lots of fresh fruits – especially those with high water content are essential.
- Mango can be consumed as vitamin-A reserves will last for 6-8 months.
- Mint chuttney is good for its cooling effect.
- A bowl of sprouts along with your meal is essential.
- Go for raw and natural food like salads and sandwiches.
- Cucumber, watermelon, banana stem, musk melon may keep body hydrate.
- Green leaves, orange, and pine apple fruits reduce the secretion of fluid (sweat) by its dietary fibre.
- A cup of curd, a glass of milk etc have cooling effect on our body.
- Green tea, because of anti-oxidant in it make the body’s process smoother and lighter.
- Drink clean water 3-4 litres per day.
- To avoid the smell of sweat in the body drink more water.
- Boiling cumin in water and drinking this water is good for summer. It also protects the skin.
- Don’t hesitate or stop urination.
- Reduce the high in take of protein during summer as its end product urea is toxic which is harmful to kidney.
- Reduce the amount of meat and take dhal, sprouted gram, pulses for the protein that needed for a day.
- Avoid oily and spicy foods.
- Always wear loose and white or light coloured dresses.
- Avoid wearing black and deep dark colour dresses as it absorbs heat from atmosphere.
