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15 tips to make hot days a little more bearable
The sun laughs in Germany. But in summer temperatures, many people long for cooling. A few advice.
Summer, sun, sunshine – some enjoy the summer weather for others it is already too warm when the thermometer climbs to 27 or 28 degrees in the shade. At the latest when it reaches 30 or 35 degrees, most of the heat speak. Fortunately, there are a few tips to ensure some cooling even on hot days and to help the body survive the high temperatures better.
Heat: warm or cold drinks?
Not every tip that is circulating for better use of heat is really useful. Some say, for example, that the grip to a hot tea is better. Others swear out of the fridge on chilled mineral water.
Which beverage temperature is now the best is much discussed. “There is no physiological evidence that warm drinks are healthier for the body in summer,” says nutritionist Antje Gahl from the German Society for Nutrition to the “Redaktion Network Germany (RND)”. The thought: If you drink a warm tea, sweat more and cool down. Because: When we sweat, it evaporates from our skin and through the evaporation cold a cooling effect occurs.
The thought itself is not wrong. But “increasing the core temperature so that the body then regulates more counter-regulated (higher skin blood circulation, more sweating) is nonsense-or open the window in winter when you are cold so that your heating thermostat is activated and the radiator warms more strongly?” Said Thermophysiologist Dr. Gernot Kuhnen from the Justus Liebig University Gießen.
Some advises cool drinks in summer because the body must first actively bring them to body temperature. According to Gernot Kuhnen and Antje Gahl, this is not true. Cool foods are not actively heated in the gastrointestinal tract. “The drink is warmed up in the gastrointestinal tract, but one speaks of passive warming there,” Gahl told the RND. Means: the body does not actively warm up a cool glass of water, which happens through the ambient temperature.
Warm and cool drinks are both in order on hot days. The main thing is that the body gets enough liquid! “However, you should avoid ice -cold drinks, since these may lead to stomach cramps and then hinder the necessary fluid intake,” advises Kuhnen.
If you want to keep a cool head, you should better choose a different drinking drink than an ice -cold beer. We give helpful tips in the image series to make hot days a little more bearable!
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This text has been updated and the PassaQGE corrected to the beverage temperature. It comes from the star archive and first appeared in June 2023.
Source: Stern
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