Although light rain has begun across the country, the heat is not easing much. This takes the heaviest toll on health, and many people may suffer heatstroke and dehydration.

To stay healthy in this heat, your diet should include foods that make up the body's water deficit and help prevent heatstroke.

Summer fruits such as mango, orange, watermelon and pomegranate will keep your body cool and make up the water deficit while providing nutrition. These fruits supply vitamin C, which keeps your immunity strong and helps keep the body cool.

Cucumber is a watery fruit that keeps the body cool and meets its need for water, so keep it in your regular diet. Eating cucumber also helps avoid sunburn problems, as it helps make the skin healthy and bright.

Green coconut water is rich in nutrients. In the heat especially, it makes up the body's lack of water and protects against heatstroke, so drinking it in hot weather is considered good for health.

People who work in the sun all day or move around outdoors for work should drink green coconut water as well as enough water to avoid dehydration and heatstroke.

Watermelon also contains a lot of water. This juicy fruit is very good for health and works especially well to meet the body's need for water in the heat. It contains potassium as well as vitamin C, so eating watermelon keeps the body from running short of water.

Citing ABP News.

Source: Jagonews24. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.