During the summer season, our skin gets affected; we are affected by cold, cough, sunstroke, chickenpox, prickly heat, urinary tract infections, pimples, rashes, acne, oily skin, dehydration, etc. We spend so much money on treating these allergies and infections. It is good to make a consultation with the doctor.
The food which you eat helps you to prevent these infections and allergies and keeps you healthy. Let us see what all the foods that are to be taken are and what all the foods that are to be avoided.
Melon Fruits:
The food that keeps your body cool in summer is melons. There is so much water content in these fruits. There are many varieties of watermelon like red, yellow, orange, seedless, icebox, picnic, etc. Most commonly available is red watermelon. This one is the most effective comparing to others. Overall the fruits, the fruit which has more water content in the world is watermelon and other melon fruits. 96% of water is present in 100 grams of watermelon. Taking of watermelon is very good for your health in the summer. Because consuming melons helps in working with the sweat glands which cools our body. When our body gets more sweat in the summer season, the water from our body comes out in the form of sweat with minerals. So, our body gets dehydrated and minerals in our body are decreased, which results in blood pressure, fainting, tension, etc. Hence, people in all age categories are recommended to eat watermelon. According to health experts, eating watermelon daily helps in reducing your body weight. Calcium, phosphorous, iron, potassium, magnesium, etc. are present in watermelon. A person with high blood pressure, eating watermelon is good for health.
Muskmelon also contains 95% of the water in it. Also, it has calcium, phosphorous, potassium, magnesium, etc. Eating melon fruits keeps your body hydrated and keeps the body cool. Muskmelon prevents the forming of kidney stones, moisturizes your skin, and prevents dark circles.
Water:
Drinking a huge amount of water keeps your body hydrated regulates body temperature. Drinking boiled water is good for health. Storing and keeping water in mud pots and drinking gives your body many health benefits. Drinking water prevents sunstroke, heatstroke, etc. Adding Vetiver and Nannari to the water stored in mud pots gives a good smell and also healthy for drinking. Except people who are having kidney stones and with hearth problems can consult doctors and drink.
Tender Coconut:
Drinking of tender coconut water gives more health benefits. When your body gets dehydrated, we first give some fluid to the body like water, juice, tender coconut, etc. Because taking fluids, gives immediate effect to the body. Tender coconut has 90% of water content, in which 400 milligrams of calcium is present, phosphorous, magnesium, potassium is also present. Look into Drink healthy thirst quencher
Fenugreek:
Eating of fenugreek helps you to keep the body cool, also helps in weight loss, controls diabetics, controls high cholesterol, and promotes good cholesterol to the body. Fenugreek contains, fiber, calcium, phosphorous, iron, magnesium, manganese, carbohydrates, etc. are present. Fenugreek acts as a cooling agent to your body. Adding fenugreek in your daily food gives you several health benefits to the body. To know more about about fenugreek see this Boost your body with fenugreek
Cucumber:
The vegetable that contains the most number of water is cucumber. It has almost 96% of water. Compared to tender coconut, cucumber has more water in it. Also, the good calories, calcium, phosphorous present in cucumber are beneficial to the body. Eating cucumber helps in weight reduction, it reduces the fat and bad cholesterol that are present inside the body. People with diabetics, blood pressure, knee pain, etc. can either eat cucumber in the form of juice, or salads. This will be very helpful for health.
Also consuming other watery vegetables like snake gourd, bottle gourd reduces the body temperature and keeps your body cool.
Shallots:
Adding shallots to your food is good for health. Shallots keep your body cool, increase immunity power, and prevents cold from the body. Adding shallots with pearl millet and having it as porridge gives several benefits to your body.
Lemon:
Lemon has more vitamins and minerals in it. Apart from vitamin C, lemon has vitamin B1, B2, B5, B6, as well as iron, potassium, calcium, copper. Lemon contains more amount of dietary fibre and helps in weight reduction. Taking lemon juice without salt and sugar is very good for health. Maybe you can add a little amount of honey, palm jaggery, or jaggery to it for sweet taste and little amount of salt can be added for salt taste.
Sweet lemon (Mosambi or Sathukudi) :
Sweet lemon or Mosambi or Sathukudi has 88% of water content in it. Taking this fruit directly for eating or by having it as a juice is good for the health. Sweet lemon helps in reducing body heat and maintains body temperature. In 100g of sweet lemon 50mg of vitamin C, 43.04 calories of energy, 490 mg of potassium, 40 mg of calcium, etc. are present.
Also eating oranges, gooseberry, which are rich in vitamin C reduces the body heat and keeps your body cool.
Ice apple:
Ice apple is commonly known as doub palm, nungu, toddy palm, wine palm, etc. ice apple has 95% percent of water content in it. Drinking the water that is present inside the ice apple is very good for the health. This moisturizes the skin, applying ice apple directly on skin acts as a natural moisturizer. Eating ice apple with its skin (the brown colored shell layer) is very good for the body.
Celery:
Adding celery to your diet gives an excellent source of antioxidants, supports digestion, etc. Celery has 95% of water content in it. Having celery in soup, and in other dishes is good for health.
During the summer season, our body gets affected mostly.
Our skin, hair, and health get affected. Let us look into some foods
that we should avoid to keep our body fit and healthy. Look into Stay healthy avoiding these foods in summer
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