What are some good tips for staying cool in this hot weather?

Question

My tip is
extend your arm palm up, place an ice cube on the elbow-fold and fold your arm. You might want to place it a thin plastic bag. It works wonders. If you need to bring down temperature fast, place ice cubes behind knees. Stay cool!

Answer 1

The Cooling Diet

What is the first thing we reach for on a hot summer day—a cold drink? We instinctively know that cool drinks and cool foods help reduce heat or Pitta. However, if a drink is too cold, it will extinguish the digestive fire and spoil digestion, so avoid iced beverages, especially during meals.

Many foods have excellent cooling properties: sweet fruits like melons, cherries, or grapes, vegetables like asparagus, cucumber, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, and also milk, butter, ghee , and natural sweetners—except honey and molasses. Also, the Pitta teas and Pitta churnas have been designed especially to help pacify Pitta.

The main principle is that you should favor foods that taste predominantly sweet, bitter and astringent. An especially cooling and tasty treat is Rose Petal Conserve. You can eat it straight out of the jar or use it as a topping on fruits, or toast.

Minimize your intake of hot and spicy foods, and foods with salty or sour tastes, such as yogurt, sour cream, buttermilk or sour oranges, grapefruit or pineapple. You also want to minimize the intake of vegetables with heating properties such as tomatoes, hot peppers, radishes, beets, onions, garlic and spinach.



Cool Tips for Hot Days
Quick, cheap, and effective tips to beat the heat and stay cool.

Run cold water over your inside wrists.
Set a bowl of ice or cold water in front of a moving fan.
Dampen your clothing.
Use a wet washcloth on your forehead. Move it often to help release heat.
Put your feet in a basin of cool (not cold) water.
Lie on the floor, preferably hard surfaced.
Be lazy. When the temperature soars, sit.
Wear loose, light - colored, cotton clothing.
Drink water, and plenty of it. It's cheap preventative medicine.
Avoid caffeine, alcohol and stress.
Eat light, as in fruits and raw vegetables. Go easy on protein; it increases your body's heat production.
Daydream - snowstorm, cool rain, the North Pole. Cheap relief!

Answer 2

When we lived in Laughlin, I was always afraid to run my cars air conditioner, for fear, that my car would over-heat. So, I went and bought my kids& I water misters, and I would freeze them, until, we had to go to Bullhead, to go shopping and take them out of the "freezer", about 1/2 hour, to 45 minutes, before we'd leave..So, we all could have ice cold water to spray on us, when the Hot air would hit us, it actually was cool, and did cool us all down....Now, had "Don Laughlin" not passed that "Stupid" law, that they couldn't build, and Big, grocery stores,or Super centers in his little town, we wouldn't have had too go all the way to Bullhead, 4-5, times a month...And it got "Scorching-Hot!!!" out in Laughlin!!! We're talking 114 degrees, kind of heat, so we mainly lived, at the river, practically,one summer.... And in between we'd just stay in all the air conditioned apts., Casino's, the Mall !! Thank-God, for "Air-Conditioning"!!! Oh, and for drinks, to take with you, just freeze your favorite drinks, in the "Freezer" the night before, and defrost, them, about 1/2 hour, before you leave..Only to where there still frozen, but will last you all day or however long, your gone for. And drinkable, too, yet very cold. Dont worry, winter, will be here, before we all know it !! And then, everyone can complain about the "Cold" !! Ha!-Ha! Just kidding! Stay cool.........

Answer 3

A bath as cool as you can stand it will reduce overall body temperature for up to an hour.

Answer 4

stay in the shade and drink a lot of cool liquids. and get urself a slurpee!!

Answer 5

stick your head in a bucket of ice water.

Answer 6

pour cold water on your wrist, it cools you down really fast

Answer 7

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