Farah Rarh, Golds gym’s (Andheri) dietitian speaks about how to keep yourself cool. Beat the heat with right kind of food intake to succeed this summer. With summers back in action it is a big challenge to your health and skin.

“We all know about eight glasses of water to flush out the toxin and how they help to keep your skin looking clear in summer,” Farah said. “What you could probably do other than absorb this information is also gulp down healthy quantity of herbs or spice tea with their skin enhancing ingredients,” she added.

Rarh said enthusiastically when questioned about drinks, “Aerated drinks do more harm than good by hindering digestion and possibly creating toxins that lead to breakout on the skin. Ice herb and berry tea can be used to bring the body temperature down. Peppermint, lemon, balm and lavender are amongst the top choices to keep the cool. Cooling herbs like cardamom and fennel help to balance the heat in our bodies.”

“While we reach out to salads instinctively we can also help ourselves with sweet juicy fruits like pear, grapes, watermelon and mangoes which nourish and cleanse.

Fresh ginger, mint and basil add aroma to our food and also go easy on digestion, if we concentrate on them our skin will not suffer breakout. A glass of milk everyday is also very good to pacify the heat,” she stated with regard to eatables.

She added, “Eating dark green leafy vegetables like spinach can protect your skin against some of the sun damaging effects. Tomato, cucumber, watermelon juices also have cooling effects.”