Thursday, October 9, 2014

Drink a hot beverage to cool off


                          hot-tea-summer-day

Which will cool you off faster on a steamy summer morning: iced coffee or hot? Two recent studies say the latter—and so do < a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22574769">others where drinking hot tea in hot weather is the norm, like in India. When you sip a hot beverage, your body senses the change in temperature and increases your sweat production. Then, as the sweat evaporates from your skin, you cool off naturally.

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