Summer Heat

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I have seen hot tea or coffee recommended as a drink when the weather is hot, but fridge-cold long infused peppermint tea rocks, and so does frozen fruit as dessert.
 
Estariol

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slapo said:
I have seen hot tea or coffee recommended as a drink when the weather is hot, but fridge-cold long infused peppermint tea rocks, and so does frozen fruit as dessert.
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Try it first, then judge by yourself.
Not so much coffee, but tea. Also, when taking a shower, use water a bit hotter than usual.
How our bodies work:
When you ingest something cold when hot outside, it feels great at the moment and in the next - maybe half an hour at best. In the meanwhile, the body is wasting a fair amout of energy to heat that cold stuff up to body temperature, and when that is achieved, you need cooling down again.
When you do the opposite, and ingest something warm or hot, the body triggers it's own cooling mechanism, absorning the energy from the heat, and releasing it through sweat and the breathing process. The same happens when you shower with hot water in hot weather. The body cools itself down by itself.
I have an acquaintance, now retired, who worked a lot in the Middle east and North Africa during the greateast times of former Yugoslavia. And he told me that he tried drinking hot tea in the desert when he saw the arabs laugh at him and his colleagues not gettin enough cold sparkling water, all while sipping on hot tea. Never looked back. I tried it myself, and it works. I didn't leave the cold stuff behind, but when i feel like i can't take the heat anymore, the above mentioned helps.
And yes, most people look at me like i'm a lunatic when i mention this, and only a few people i know actually tried it. At first, it's all in the mind. Cross that obstacle and you'll see for yourself. For me, it works great.
 
slapo

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Estariol said:
Try it first, then judge by yourself.
Not so much coffee, but tea. Also, when taking a shower, use water a bit hotter than usual.
How our bodies work:
When you ingest something cold when hot outside, it feels great at the moment and in the next - maybe half an hour at best. In the meanwhile, the body is wasting a fair amout of energy to heat that cold stuff up to body temperature, and when that is achieved, you need cooling down again.
When you do the opposite, and ingest something warm or hot, the body triggers it's own cooling mechanism, absorning the energy from the heat, and releasing it through sweat and the breathing process. The same happens when you shower with hot water in hot weather. The body cools itself down by itself.
I have an acquaintance, now retired, who worked a lot in the Middle east and North Africa during the greateast times of former Yugoslavia. And he told me that he tried drinking hot tea in the desert when he saw the arabs laugh at him and his colleagues not gettin enough cold sparkling water, all while sipping on hot tea. Never looked back. I tried it myself, and it works. I didn't leave the cold stuff behind, but when i feel like i can't take the heat anymore, the above mentioned helps.
And yes, most people look at me like i'm a lunatic when i mention this, and only a few people i know actually tried it. At first, it's all in the mind. Cross that obstacle and you'll see for yourself. For me, it works great.
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I have actually tried it (hot tea), and it didn't really work for me any better than e.g. spraying a bit of water or alcohol on the skin.
Its effect is time limited, just as it is with ingesting cold stuff.

I think there's a temperature range when this both somewhat works and is safe.
If the theory is that by ingesting hot stuff raises core temperature and thus induces increased sweating which should help cool one down, then that only works to some extent if the air isn't very humid already and and one's core temperature isn't too high.

I suspect that one of the reasons people in the desert (where the heat is generally pretty dry) actually used to drink tea also for food safety, perhaps even more so than for the cooling effect.
 
Estariol

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slapo said:
I have actually tried it (hot tea), and it didn't really work for me any better than e.g. spraying a bit of water or alcohol on the skin.
Its effect is time limited, just as it is with ingesting cold stuff.

I think there's a temperature range when this both somewhat works and is safe.
If the theory is that by ingesting hot stuff raises core temperature and thus induces increased sweating which should help cool one down, then that only works to some extent if the air isn't very humid already and and one's core temperature isn't too high.

I suspect that one of the reasons people in the desert (where the heat is generally pretty dry) actually used to drink tea also for food safety, perhaps even more so than for the cooling effect.
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I agree to the last word. And it does keep me cool for longer than cold stuff. But i also sweat really easily. I don't hyper-perspirate, i simply break a sweat sooner or faster than others.
 
Northam Saint

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Got back from California today to what can only be described as a blast furnace. Death Valley was 115F but no5 as aggressive as this. BUT it could be the jet lag speaking.
 
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