Healthy Recipes That Help Cool The Body

It’s not just the AC or a fan that can keep you cool on a hot summer day. It can serve the purpose of keeping you externally cool, but internally, your system will need more than just the AC to remain cool. This is when food waltzes into the picture. The food you eat determines how ‘cool’ you actually are, internally of course. Ayurveda, the ‘Science of Life’ considers all bitter foods cooling. Pungent bitter food battles against the moistening qualities of salty foods. Eating natural bitter foods like bitter gourd helps in cooling you down. Cooling foods also tend to assist in the process of digestion. Dill, coconut, milk, yogurt, banana, clams, lettuce, sugar cane, radish, strawberry, broccoli, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, cauliflower, bamboo shoots, apples, grapes, and watermelons are all good examples of cooling foods. A certain element of yin (cooling) is needed to ensure that your diet is balanced as too much of yang (heat) in your diet can lead to a swarm of complications. ‘Hot’ foods can lead to constipation, fever, irritability, pimples, rashes, indigestion etc. so, it is better to include the cooling foods in your regular diet to beat the heat. Try out these healthy recipes to install oodles of yin, and balance out the yang in your life and lifestyle.