How to beat the summer heat? Stay cool with air conditioner, and drink a lot of water. These may help you prevent heat stroke, but might not be enough. What you eat and what you drink also affect your body’s temperature. In summer season, you should avoid or reduce eating hot spicy foods, and add or eat more cooling foods.
Foods that have cooling properties include watermelon, strawberry, kiwifruit, mung bean, green tea, winter melon, bitter melon, seaweed, tofu and mushroom. All these foods can be used as summer remedies to reduce internal heat. All these remedies have cooling properties and have effects to cool down the body. The most effective summer remedies among them are mung bean and watermelon.
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Please note, most cooling foods have effects to cool down the digestive system. If you have a weak or cold stomach and digestive system, you should not eat too much cooling foods. Otherwise, it may cause indigestion and loose stools.
