Yoghurt

Probiotics are, along with fruits and vegetables, products consumed during the summer. The resulting fermented milk yogurt contains a large number of live and active bacterial cells with positive effects on health.

Fruits and vegetables

Their high water content, fiber, vitamins and other nutrients makes them the most appropriate food for the summer. Quench our hunger and thirst as appetizing and help keep our skin well nourished and hydrated.

An adequate intake of vegetables during these months would ration of between 200 and 250 grams per day. Of the vegetables: potatoes and tomatoes, and between fruit: Orange.

Soups and cold soups

Besides drinking water, “most recommended”, juices, fruit smoothies and soups or cold soups made with vegetables provide large amounts of water, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates and other non-nutritive substances but important health benefits, known as natural antioxidants, which are found mostly in plant foods.

Do not eat too much salt

Despite the losses that occur with perspiration, and exceptional cases, in times of heat is necessary to increase the intake of salt. Some think it is necessary to ingest larger amounts of salt to replace what is lost through perspiration.

While it is true that when we sweat our body loses salt and water usually does not lose so much that needed taking extra amounts. Only those engaged in hard work and intensity at high temperatures and sweat profusely, and when the water consumption of a person from four liters a day, you should take extra amounts of salt, but both conditions are exceptional.