Myth a, summer foot washing with cold water does not matter Myth Interpretation When it comes to washing feet with hot water, many friends think that is a winter thing to do, the most comfortable summer foot washing with cool water. But in fact, the human foot sweat glands are more developed, more sweat in the summer, wash feet with cool water, will make the already expanded pores suddenly close blocked, muscle fatigue and tension increase after exercise. Often do so, not only will make the foot cold cold, over time will also lead to sweating dysfunction. Suggestions: the summer rainy season, summer heat and humidity, but the human spleen is most afraid of moisture, moisture blocked in the spleen and stomach, there will be no appetite, sleepy, no spirit and other performance. In the summer, the body’s yang energy is the most vigorous, with warm water foot soak can better stimulate the meridians, invigorate the body’s internal organs function, help get rid of summer dampness, prevent wind and cold, so that people improve appetite, promote sleep. Myth two, chemical fiber fabric light and cool misconceptions interpretation of the summer many beautiful clothes are made of chemical fiber fabrics. In fact, the body sweats a lot in summer, and although the chemical fiber fabric is lighter and thinner, but the absorbency, breathability are poor, the skin is difficult to evaporate through the sweat for heat dissipation, and therefore wear such fabrics in the summer clothes are not cool. At the same time, the excessive retention of sweat, but also make the skin secretions corruption, fermentation, coupled with synthetic fibers in the production process mixed with the monomer ammonia, methanol and other chemical components of the skin irritation, and thus easy to induce allergies and a variety of dermatitis. Suggestions: cotton, linen, silk and other natural fibers are the best choice for summer clothing. Silk clothes skin-friendly, light weight, thin thickness, summer wear both comfortable and beautiful, will also feel cool through the body. Cotton clothes absorb sweat, good breathability, and soft fabric, not stiff. Hemp clothes because of its loose molecular structure, light texture, large pores, breathability and water absorption is very good. The thinner and thinner the fabric clothes are woven, the lighter the clothes are, the cooler they are to wear. Myth three, wear light-colored clothes heat dissipation and cool misconceptions from the color of clothes, people generally think that summer wear white, light-colored clothes will be cool, in fact, white or too light color will reflect ultraviolet light, easy to hurt the skin. Red is the most able to absorb the ultraviolet rays of the sun, so wear red clothes outdoors in the summer the most sun protection. Although black is the fastest color to absorb heat, but also the fastest heat dissipation. Suggestions: wear black clothes indoors or on cloudy days, will play its heat dissipation fast function, can quickly drain away the heat of the skin surface, so that people feel a lot cooler, interested friends may wish to try. Myth four, the darker the sunglasses color is better myth interpretation lens color is too dark, will seriously affect visibility, eyes because of the strain of seeing things and easily damaged, can not play a role in protecting the eyes. Suggestions: the darker the color of the lens does not mean that the ability of UV protection is stronger, sunglasses UV protection function and lens materials, technology and other factors. In general, under the premise of ensuring quality, choose teal, gray sunglasses better. Gray lenses can absorb infrared rays and 98% of ultraviolet rays, while yellow or teal lenses can filter out a lot of blue light that is more harmful to the eyes. Other lens color selection should be based on the principle that the color of the surrounding environment is not distorted, the edge of the object is clear, and can effectively identify different color signals. Glaucoma, color blindness, night blindness, low vision, retinitis and other eye disease patients should not wear sunglasses. Myth 5: Staying in an air-conditioned room in the heat is the safest Myth Explained Staying in an air-conditioned room for too long can also cause body aches and pains, depression and loss of appetite. Sometimes nasal bleeding occurs because the nasal cavity is too dry, or a cold, fever, or even cause bronchitis, pneumonia and gastroenteritis and other diseases. Suggestions: the indoor temperature should not be lower than 27 ℃ in the ambient time, the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor does not exceed 8 ℃. Do not close the room with air conditioning for a long time, and ventilate often. Myth six, mung bean soup, herbal tea can drink more misconceptions explained in order to prevent summer heat, many people like to drink mung bean soup. Although green bean soup is good, but do not drink more, not to mention as water to drink. Suggestions: from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, people who belong to the cold body, such as cold limbs, bloating, diarrhea and other symptoms, can not drink more mung bean soup, otherwise it will aggravate the symptoms, or even cause other diseases. Myth seven, high temperature days and ice cream with the most misconceptions explained in order to prevent summer heat, many people like to eat and drink a lot of cold dishes, cold food, watermelon, cold beer, cold drinks, etc.. Chinese medicine experts pointed out that the scorching summer, the body is actually in a state of external heat and internal cold, if too much greedy food and drink easy to cause gastrointestinal disorders. Therefore, we should not greedy cold, so as not to make health damage. Suggestion: summer drinks or hot drinks. Because hot water into the body, although it felt hot at the time, but the central heat-sensitive neurons after the reflex makes the skin capillary pores quickly expand, blood flow greatly increased, sweat gland secretion enhanced, thus promoting sweating, the body’s internal heat out of the body, really make the body temperature drop, and such a cool is lasting. Myth eight, summer should eat more “bitter” Myth Interpretation Bitter food contains alkaloids with heat, diastolic effect, many people feel that as long as the fire, you can eat some bitter melon, wild vegetables, drink bitter tea and other bitter food to fire. In fact, these bitter foods are mostly suitable for diarrhea liver and gallbladder, gastrointestinal fire, if there is a sore throat, bad breath, red eyes and other symptoms, you can eat some “bitter”; but for the mouth and tongue sores and other symptoms of heart fire is not applicable. Suggestions: Eat “bitter” should also be moderate, too much or consume too much bitter food, may damage the spleen and stomach, causing nausea, vomiting and other side effects. Myth nine, sweating, heatstroke with a cold towel after wiping misconceptions have been sweating skin should not use cold water or cold towel wipe, should use warm water or warm towel wipe. Because the skin is cold stimulation, the pores will be tightly closed, capillaries will also be contracted, the body heat is not emitted, at this time the body will produce a feeling of annoying heat. Suggestions: summer sweating do not use cold water scrubbing, especially people with heat stroke symptoms, this is not only detrimental to heat dissipation, but also may bring health risks. It is recommended to use warm water, the skin surface is stimulated by the warmth, the pores are more conducive to open, capillaries expand, heat will be more and faster to emit, the body will soon feel cool and comfortable. Myth 10, more sweat in the summer can lose weight Myth Interpretation The weather is hot, a little walking will sweat, many people ready to lose weight psychological joy, is not my fat in the burning? The human body is distributed with about 3 million sweat glands. When heat causes blood vessels to dilate, the water in the blood transfers heat to the surface of the skin and then evaporates with sweat, transferring heat to the surrounding environment. In hot environments, the human body can sweat as much as 8-12 liters per day. Summer sweating is just a physiological phenomenon of the body to regulate temperature, and burning fat is not very relevant. Suggestions: summer weight loss or a combination of diet and exercise, and to first exclude pathological factors, you can try acupuncture and other Chinese medicine external treatment and conditioning.