The summer heat is intense, so pay close attention to your health. Health starts with diet; follow the "seven more, one less" principle to eat your way to health.
More coarse grains: You can eat more coarse grains like brown rice and corn to increase your vitamin intake.
More vegetables: Vegetables are rich in vitamins and minerals. Summer seasonal vegetables like lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes also have high water content.
More fruits: Fruits like peaches, watermelons, and muskmelons have a water content of 80% to 90%. You can eat more of these fruits to replenish fluids.
More congee: In the hot summer, the digestive system can be weakened by the heat, leading to a loss of appetite. Drinking health-boosting congee is one way to regulate your diet. Good choices include mung bean congee, honeysuckle congee, mint congee, lotus seed congee, lotus leaf congee, and lotus root congee.
More soup: When you sweat a lot and lose significant body fluids, drinking soup can replenish water in a timely manner and aid digestion and absorption. You can drink heat-preventing soups like hawthorn soup, sour plum and mung bean soup, and honeysuckle soup.
More tea: Warm tea can lower skin temperature by 1-2°C. Drinking more tea in hot weather can hydrate you, relieve summer heat, and replenish potassium. For people working in high temperatures, adding a little salt to the tea can compensate for the salt lost through sweating and is more beneficial for preventing heatstroke.
Appropriately more dairy products: Dairy products can both hydrate you and meet your body's nutritional needs, making them a good choice for preventing summer heat.
Less cold drinks: Eating a moderate amount of cold drinks can help relieve summer heat and lower your temperature. However, too many cold drinks can lower your gastrointestinal temperature, causing irregular contractions that may lead to abdominal pain and diarrhea. Additionally, excessive consumption of cold drinks can affect your appetite. In severe cases, it can damage the spleen and stomach or cause gastrointestinal dysfunction.