As summer comes, the hot weather makes us
feel tired and lose appetite. Apart from providing yourself with water, you
need to absorb different nutrients.
In
summer, you have to drink more water.
Let’s check out those tips below to have a
healthy and comfortable summer.
1. Drinks
Summer makes us sweat a lot, so we have to
drink more water. In average, you should drink 1.5-2 liters of water a day and
drink more if you work outdoor and under hot weather. Those following drinks
will be helpful for you.
Pennywort and lettuce smoothie has the
ability to cool down your body temperature.
Black bean helps detoxify the body and cool
down the body temperature; it’s also a healthy tonic. Black bean is suitable to
people who have weak kidneys and have depression caused by cold.
Lemon juice contains lots of vitamin C that
is good for skin and helps cool down the body, kill the bacteria, treat cough…
Hence, you should use lemon as a daily drink.
Yogurt is an essential drink in summer, especially
to women. Yogurt is not only good for skin but also very helpful to the
digestive system.
Cassava is a nutritious drink too.
Green tea has antioxidant which is a very
important in remove dead cell and regenerate skin. Besides, green tea also
contains vitamin C that has the ability to cool down the body and efficiently
excrete toxic through skin.
Lemon
juice contains lots of vitamin C that is good for skin and helps cool down the
body.
2. Foods
Pork and beef is still able to be used in
summer but, they have to be cooked in order to be easy to eat and digest (Do
not dry or grill the meat because it can cause loss of appetite and eating
difficult. The amount of meat per serving of a person should also be reduced.
Moreover, you should avoid or limit eating
foods like goal’s meat, dog’s, pepper, ginger… because they can make you feel
hot and uncomfortable.
Fatty fishes like salmon and many others
also have a great content of EPA & DHA, so they can reduce inflammation,
especially skin inflammation. Skin inflammation is considered to be the
important reason that increases skin issues which are easily infected and hard
to recover in summer.
Fatty fishes like salmon and many others also have a great content
of EPA & DHA.
Tofu is a food that is cool and has a
variety in food processing.
Water spinach and crabs soup is in many
people’s favorite because of the crabs that are full of calcium.
Bitter melon which has a bitter taste, cool
temperament and antipyretic ability is very good summer drinks and foods.
Courgette has a sweet taste, cool
temperament and antipyretic ability. This is a popular vegetable or drink in
summer.
Cucumber is sweet, cool and easy to be
processed into many dishes.
Water melon is sweet and cold, and has the
antipyretic and refreshing abilities.
Carrots contain vitamin A and B. Vitamin A
is very important to the development and maintenance of healthy cells. Vitamin
B helps firm muscles, helps you be young for long and help brighten the skin…
Carrots
contain vitamin A and B.
Spinach is sweet, cool and has the
antipyretic ability. It also has lots of iron, calcium.
Sweet leaf is very good for health,
especially for pregnant women’s. This vegetable is cool, nutritious and has
antipyretic ability.
Water spinach cooked with tomatoes
(tamarind or dracontomelum…) is a cheap delicious dish, and easy to eat. This
dish is eaten in Vietnamese family in summer.
Melons are not only in the top of foods
that is good at purging the body, but also in women’s favorite for its ability
to efficiently beautify the skin. For example, water melon, except from its
attractive red, has many good effects on human health, such as: providing
vitamins, preventing dehydration and beautifying the skin.
Citrus fruit is the best source of vitamin
C, so it very good at improving the immune system of the body, as we are easily
having sicknesses like sunstroke, fever… in hot weather coming along with virus
development.
Citrus
fruit is the best source of vitamin C, so it very good at improving the immune
system of the body.
Mango has many nutrients like carotene,
potassium, iron, vitamin E… Additionally, this fruit has lots of water that
helps prevent the body from dehydration in hot weather. The best way to eat
mangoes is eating them when they’re ripe or you can make yourself a delicious
mango smoothie.
