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TOP-5 drinks that are dangerous to drink in the heat
On hot summer days, the most important thing is to drink plenty of clean water, the volume depends on your weight. The best is with lemon, you can add a little ice and mint, so you get a full-fledged cooling drink that will invigorate you. You can also make delicious, natural lemonades, teas, and detox drinks to help you cope with the heat.
Today, FoodOboz editorial team will tell you what drinks you should avoid in the heat so as not to harm your body.
1. Alcoholic beverages
Alcohol is harmful not only in the heat, but on hot days it can simply kill a person. Since alcohol does not eliminate thirst, but only intensifies it, thereby accelerating the development of dehydration and overheating of the body, which are accompanied by dizziness, headaches, dizziness and even a heart attack.
2. Low-alcohol drinks
In the heat, it is better to refuse even minimal alcohol consumption, since even with the smallest dose, blood vessels will immediately dilate, heart rate will increase, and the risk of heat stroke will increase significantly.
3. Coffee
You shouldn't abuse this drink either, as it constricts blood vessels, while extreme heat helps to dilate them and lower blood pressure.
It is useful for those who are prone to hypotension. Coffee will make you feel more refreshed in the heat and increase your efficiency. At the same time, you need to remember the need to replenish fluids in the body.
4. Sweet carbonated drinks
Sugary carbonated drinks are very harmful, and on hot days, especially, they can cause great damage to the pancreas and cause even greater thirst.
5. Ice-cold drinks
You should not drink too cold drinks, as they cause only the illusion of cooling and relief, but in fact, the body heats the cold liquid you just drank, which is accompanied by the production of excess heat and a vicious circle is formed - you drink, get temporary relief, which not only does not fully saturate the body, but also causes it to heat up further.
The best things to drink in the heat are plain water, green iced and hot tea, black tea, coffee, but no more than 2 cups a day, fruit drinks, freshly squeezed juices, vegetable and berry smoothies, homemade lemonades, kefir, milk, homemade kvass.