HEAT WAVE - why so many people eat things that make it worse.

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Anonymous wrote:So all summer you sip a smoothie? Uggh.

That would give me the runs (dehydrating).

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Anonymous wrote:It is so hot outside, the last couple of days are brutal, but when you see what people are ordering in any given place it is hair raising.
Tons of breads, starches, gluten heavy foods and they load on them. Not everyone of course but many do and then the same people seem to leave the place holding their belly with both hands massaging it gently like they carry a baby and they waddle outside the place into the heat. What is the next step I wonder.. ER?

Why it is not a common knowledge that in hot heat and humid foods to limit or avoid altogether for the time of the extreme heat are:
- starches.. rice.. potatoes..
- gluten .. pastas.. breads..
- salty foods
- salt
- meat
- spicy food

Feel free to add to the list and add foods that are good and light.

Have you met Mexico? Or any temperature-hot country?

Or India? Or SE Asia? Or parts of Africa?

I'm going to guess OP is white. Very white. Because they are clueless about the climates and cuisines of places that aren't European.

I'm guessing she's from an Eastern European country where women chain smoke, nibble on bland food, and drink vodka.

I couldn't tell you what other people eat at restaurants because I don't notice...or care...or judge.

Hey.. insult OP all you want, but I am pp from Yugoslavia and lived in Africa... I live off of spicy food, we eat hot peppers(not me allergic but everyone else), we don't drink no vodka, sljivovica and Irish Whiskey if we are being posh! My kids' first solid food was spicy chicken curry. I love, love as do my kids and dh spicy food, I add Tabasco and everything and my kids think Sriracha is ketchup!(ok, but jokes aside, people in Yugoslavia do eat spicy food more than other Eastern Europeans that I've met(so just speaking for those I know) and even in my country we are an anomaly, bland food sucks so, so much!)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So all summer you sip a smoothie? Uggh.

Probably a kale smoothie.

If your last meal on earth involves kale, then you have lost the game of life.

Signed,

God

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Anonymous wrote:During this heat wave I have only been drinking room temperature tap water with a small slice of lemon. Anyone not doing this must hate themselves and the environment. Why can't you think of the children?

/s

In this weather, after my dad had been out all day mowing and weeding and digging fence post holes, he’d come inside to take a break and drink a beer that he had sprinkled with salt.

Not sarcasm. Lol. I just had to put that out there to see if OP got the vapors.

Your dad sounds awesome! He knows salt is essential for staying well in the heat, and he burns all the beer calories while mowing in this heat! I lost my beloved father last year, and this is the first summer I am going back home and he is not there!

I’m sorry about your dad. I hope your trip brings fond memories rather than painful ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hair-raising? I just imagine you like a Cathy cartoon, tearing at your hair saying "ACK!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hair-raising? I just imagine you like a Cathy cartoon, tearing at your hair saying "ACK!!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:During this heat wave I have only been drinking room temperature tap water with a small slice of lemon. Anyone not doing this must hate themselves and the environment. Why can't you think of the children?

/s

In this weather, after my dad had been out all day mowing and weeding and digging fence post holes, he’d come inside to take a break and drink a beer that he had sprinkled with salt.

Not sarcasm. Lol. I just had to put that out there to see if OP got the vapors.

Are you Mexican? This is a very Mexican habit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bread is bad when it is hot? What? You are weird.

American-made breads are generally very poor quality.

[Anonymous]

I agree with Op. It makes me hot just looking at someone stuffing their faces with bread in this heat!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bread is bad when it is hot? What? You are weird.

American-made breads are generally very poor quality.

Then go to a French bakery and buy something more fresh/upscale.

They have heat waves in Europe every summer. And Southern European countries have super hot summers every day/year. What do you think they eat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with Op. It makes me hot just looking at someone stuffing their faces with bread in this heat!

That’s what she said

[Anonymous]

Op never came back. Probably passed out from an electrolyte imbalance.

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Anonymous wrote:It is so hot outside, the last couple of days are brutal, but when you see what people are ordering in any given place it is hair raising.
Tons of breads, starches, gluten heavy foods and they load on them. Not everyone of course but many do and then the same people seem to leave the place holding their belly with both hands massaging it gently like they carry a baby and they waddle outside the place into the heat. What is the next step I wonder.. ER?

Why it is not a common knowledge that in hot heat and humid foods to limit or avoid altogether for the time of the extreme heat are:
- starches.. rice.. potatoes..
- gluten .. pastas.. breads..
- salty foods
- salt
- meat
- spicy food

Feel free to add to the list and add foods that are good and light.

Have you met Mexico? Or any temperature-hot country?

Or India? Or SE Asia? Or parts of Africa?

I'm going to guess OP is white. Very white. Because they are clueless about the climates and cuisines of places that aren't European.

I'm guessing she's from an Eastern European country where women chain smoke, nibble on bland food, and drink vodka.

I couldn't tell you what other people eat at restaurants because I don't notice...or care...or judge.

Hey.. insult OP all you want, but I am pp from Yugoslavia and lived in Africa... I live off of spicy food, we eat hot peppers(not me allergic but everyone else), we don't drink no vodka, sljivovica and Irish Whiskey if we are being posh! My kids' first solid food was spicy chicken curry. I love, love as do my kids and dh spicy food, I add Tabasco and everything and my kids think Sriracha is ketchup!(ok, but jokes aside, people in Yugoslavia do eat spicy food more than other Eastern Europeans that I've met(so just speaking for those I know) and even in my country we are an anomaly, bland food sucks so, so much!)

Hey! A fellow Yugoslav! Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are we supposed to eat? Feathers?

You may have ONE almond.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is so hot outside, the last couple of days are brutal, but when you see what people are ordering in any given place it is hair raising.
Tons of breads, starches, gluten heavy foods and they load on them. Not everyone of course but many do and then the same people seem to leave the place holding their belly with both hands massaging it gently like they carry a baby and they waddle outside the place into the heat. What is the next step I wonder.. ER?

Why it is not a common knowledge that in hot heat and humid foods to limit or avoid altogether for the time of the extreme heat are:
- starches.. rice.. potatoes..
- gluten .. pastas.. breads..
- salty foods
- salt
- meat
- spicy food

Feel free to add to the list and add foods that are good and light.

Have you met Mexico? Or any temperature-hot country?

Or India? Or SE Asia? Or parts of Africa?

I'm going to guess OP is white. Very white. Because they are clueless about the climates and cuisines of places that aren't European.

I'm guessing she's from an Eastern European country where women chain smoke, nibble on bland food, and drink vodka.

I couldn't tell you what other people eat at restaurants because I don't notice...or care...or judge.

Hey.. insult OP all you want, but I am pp from Yugoslavia and lived in Africa... I live off of spicy food, we eat hot peppers(not me allergic but everyone else), we don't drink no vodka, sljivovica and Irish Whiskey if we are being posh! My kids' first solid food was spicy chicken curry. I love, love as do my kids and dh spicy food, I add Tabasco and everything and my kids think Sriracha is ketchup!(ok, but jokes aside, people in Yugoslavia do eat spicy food more than other Eastern Europeans that I've met(so just speaking for those I know) and even in my country we are an anomaly, bland food sucks so, so much!)

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You are the one who is insulting. I’m Eastern European and Yugoslavia isn't a country. The former Yugoslavia works, but don’t insult the rest of us easteen Europeans.