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By   quiet tracer HOW TO COOL YOURSELF WITHOUT   AIR CONDITIONING   - BEST TIPs If you are feeling hot in a   summer   day and does not have an air conditioner for instance, that's doesn't matter. Now you can keep yourself cool in a hot day even without an air conditioner by following just this simple process. STEPS 1.   Wet your wrists and other pulse points with cold water. Use a piece of ice wrapped in a face cloth, to continue after the coolness wears off. Constantly cooling off the wrists will also cool off the body. Never use just ice; make sure it is wrapped in a towel or something similar. Studies show that this will reduce your core body temperature by as much as 3 °F (1.5 ºC). The relief is almost immediate, and will last for up to one hour! 2.   Use perspiration to cool the body down. Water vapor produced by sweating (avoid sweating too much) actually takes heat away from your body if it is exposed to air and ...

Summer season is on in Northern Hemisphere, and every body want to stay cool in summer. Here are some basic techniques of summertime energy management to be cool during summer season. Please keep in mind that these are comforting techniques and do not provide 100% relief and would last an hour or less. Get your air conditioner filters clean, keep your weather stripping tight, draw the drapes on windows and doors during the heat of the day, and limiting use of ovens and ranges like big heat-creating appliances. Use tropical clothing like loose, lightweight cotton and linen to enable your body from direct contact with the sun. The guayabera, men's shirt popular in Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean (especially Cuba), also known as "Mexican wedding shirt," is constructed to keep you cool naturally. A relative of the traditional Filipino barong, the guayabera wicks moisture from the skin and is worn untucked to promote air circulation. Putting cold water on your pulse...

Hot and dry summer is nothing new for us. When you feels melting skin, you need to follow these special tips. DIET As a rule of thumb, drink as much water as you can in any form like coconut water, butter milk and lemon juice minus the sugar. Also eat foods with high water content which include cereals, rice, wheat and vegetables such as watermelons, cucumber, oranges, carrots and spinach. Eat moderate amount of food and avoid excessive eating as stomach disorders are high when full during hot months. AVOID: Food with unrequired fat and sodium content. Sodium causes water retention, further dehydrating the body. Salty peanuts, chips and oily stuff are bad too.    KIDDIES: If your kids complain of loss of appetite, give them compact meals, stuffed parathas, vegetables wrapped in chappatis, curd rice or raita khichri. Give them lots of coconut water, lemon juice or mixed fruit juice.   SKIN CARE: A line of actions for infections and diseases that you need f...

Goalfinder Blood-circulatory-system (Photo credit: gfinder ) Constant cold feet may be symptoms of anemia, a circulatory disorder or a hormonal problem. If the cause of cold feet is poor circulation, a prescribed course of treatment might include water applications, foot exercises, aerobic exercise, massage and diet to improve blood flow and warm up the extremities. During cold weather, the body maintains its temperature by shutting off the blood flow to the hands and feet to ensure blood supply to heart and brain to help them to function properly. This causes cold to distant organs like hands and feet. People complain cold feet, even when in a warm places, can also happen due to poor nutrition or nicotine abuse. If there is no underlying organic disorder, the problem may be alleviated by eating a balanced diet rich in vitamins and minerals and exercising regularly. But once you start naturopathic applications like mentioned along with foot baths, foot exercises and massages,...

Avocado Sandwich (Photo credit: J. Chris Vaughan ) In general, aim to consume about 3,500 milligrams of potassium a day. Your best bet is simply to eat more potassium-rich foods, especially fruits, vegetables, and low-fat dairy products. If you're following the DASH diet, eating these foods shouldn't be much of a problem. Have a cup of orange juice with breakfast, half an avocado in a salad at lunch, and half a cup of cooked spinach or a baked potato with dinner. For snacks, try a banana, 8 ounces of low-fat yogurt, or five dried prunes. Cantaloupe Bowl (Photo credit: Washthebowl ) Below you will find foods that contain plentiful amounts of potassium (starting with those that contain the greatest amounts of the mineral). Don't just home in on the best sources of the mineral; eating a wide range of foods provides healthy benefits, like phytochemicals and fiber. Apricots, dried: 1 cup, 1,567 mg Avocado: 1 medium, 1,097 mg Potato (baked with skin): 1 medium, 84...

a baked potato with butter (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A medical student checking blood pressure using a sphygmomanometer and stethoscope. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The potato’s stereotype as a fattening food for health-conscious folks to avoid is getting another revision today as scientists report that just a couple servings of spuds a day reduces blood pressure almost as much as oatmeal without causing weight gain. Scientists reported on the research, done on a group of overweight people with high blood pressure. “The potato, more than perhaps any other vegetable, has an undeserved bad reputation that has led many health-conscious people to ban them from their diet,” said Joe Vinson, Ph.D., who headed the research. “Mention ‘potato’ and people think ‘fattening, high-carbs, empty calories’. In reality, when prepared without frying and served without butter, margarine or sour cream, one potato has only 110 calories and dozens of healthful phytochemicals and vitamins. We hope ou...

Raisins. Français : Raisins secs. Русский: Изюм. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) taking blood pressure in PE (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Raisins: Eating raisins and soy appears to help reduce high blood pressure, thus warding off heart disease. Munching on a handful of raisins three times a day helped people with slightly elevated blood pressure lower their numbers after several weeks, said one of the studies presented at the American College of Cardiology conference. Blood pressure ranged from 120 over 80 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) to 139 millimeters of mercury over 89 mm Hg, or just higher than normal. The raisin-eating group saw significant drops in blood pressure, in some cases lowering the top number, or systolic pressure, by 10.2, or seven percent over the 12-week study. Researchers think that high level of potassium in the shriveled, dried grapes. "Raisins are packed with potassium, which is known to lower blood pressure," said lead investigator Harold B...