5 Steps to prevent burn-outs from the heat with little effort

a) Add raw onion and a clove of garlic to your main meal. Your mouth will stink, yet home-wisdom sings the paean of this simple meal. You will be saved sunstrokes. Of course, you already know that you should not eat all that oil you used for cooking in the winter but it is all right to go hyper with the home-made red chilli paste. The latter aids digestion where there is humid heat.

b) Juice up on the easy to make water-melon juice. Drink the pulp too and when outdoors, take it straight from a pre-cooled bottle. Add sugar to taste. Try out also drinking lime water and oh! Avoid caffeine in the form of cokes, coffee and chocolates. Better drink coconut water than any bottled drink. Coconut water has the needed potassium and sodium to keep you doing the rounds even in this heat.

c) Take mangoes at breakfast. They are energy store - houses. Beware if you are a diabetic , then this won’t do.

d) Add tamarind to your food…they soothe the body during blistering heat waves. At 45degree Celsius I survived on fish cooked in mustard oil and tamarind juice.

e) Simple wisdom, hardly ever followed, use an umbrella and cover your face with a wet handkerchief when out at 2pm. And then cover every inch of your body…no sunscreen works.

Disclaimer: I am no doctor and as such my advice should not be taken with the same seriousness as a medico’s . But I have survived many harrowing summers when the sun shot above 50 degrees Centigrade by following the above. Try them; you will live to walk another noon.

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