Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05

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have gotten rid Of about 500 Galleries. Water
can carry more heat without showing it than
anything else in the world. OF course. you
must drink plenty Of water TO replenish the
supply In your body.
If YOU do not perspire much you will be more
comfortable in hot weather If you drink hot tea
and coffee rather than the iced variety. as tns
warm drinks will induce extra persparation.
If the air already holds all the water II
can take up you cannot get cool Dy sweat
ing off the heat, which Is why muggy Gay
with high humidity Is uncomfortable. ON
such a day you must drive the hot moist layer
of air away from your skim using ian II
there is no breeze available.
If YOU will add pinch or two OF salt to your
drinking water in hot weather. you VIII nho
that it helps you to endure the heat.
Scientists investigating conditions In hot coal
mines and steel plants where men have 10
work under extremely high temperatures founo
that the workers who Succumbed rapidly When
working in q temperature of about 100 degrees
were able to stand it better when this small
amount of salt added to their drinking
water.
AT high temperatures, especially when
is working hard, the body gives of large
amounts of water in perspira ton. This Is ma
lures way Of keeping one cool However, the
body also loses much salt with the perspira-
tion-which is what causes a large part OF the
physical exhaustion you experience wnen you
work hard in the heat
To overcome this, then, try putting pinch
of salt in your water.
ONE of the keeping-cool rules advocated Dy
~ science is to avoid tn use of alcoholic
drinks in hot weather. ! biol serves as q
food as well thiN-qr cher. scientific ex-
periments have shown. zen alcohol is burned
in the body it gives rise to heat and energy.
like other foods.
is by no means much of cooling drink"
as its consumers believe. While it is being
consumed Of course, 1t gives sensation OF
GOODNESS. Later on. however this effect wears
away. and the beer drinker fnds himself
actually warmer than before.
An experiment with goldfish carried out by
Prof w e. Buree, L. D. Seager and D. J. Verda
Of the University of Illinois physiology depart
ment proved that alcohol also can perform an
other function of foods It increases or stimu-
lates the metabolic process by which the body
converts food into heat and energy.
In other words, then when you take long,
cool drink with an alcoholic base, such as beer
a mint julep you are really stocking your
body's fires making them burn faster and
produce more heat rather than checking the
fires and cutting down the heat production.
The same thing applies, in a different way.
to some of the drinks you buy in drug store
soda fountain on q hot day. chocolate
matted milk for example. may be delciously
cool and refreshing, but 1t has considerable
quantity of heat-producing food in it, and the
metabolic processes of your body are stimu-
lated TO new activity as soon as you have con-
sumed it.
In the same manner, a heaped-up ice cream
s,lndae may seem like just the thing to cool
you of on q blistering Summer day, but 1t
actually will help to increase your sensation
of heat instead of diminishing it.
AS q matter Of fact. pure water is about the
best cooling drink of all. And was remarked
above If you try adding just small pinch Of
salt to 1t when you have to work under espe-
cially high temperatures. you wiz find that yoa
feel much more comfortable.