We are going through perhaps the hottest days of summer. Instead of eating fattening or hot dishes, we sometimes turn to refreshing foods and drinks. If we can make our preferences right, we both contribute to our health and provide our weight control.

It is best to avoid overly fatty foods during this time. In particular, it is useful to benefit from vegetables that can replace the water we lose with sweating and fruits with low sugar content. When you do not want to consume vegetables as food, you can prepare healthy and satisfying salads with plenty of ingredients. Depending on their content, these salads can sometimes be used as a side dish and sometimes as a main course.

Yeditepe University Kozyatağı Hospital Dietitian and Phytotherapy Specialist Buket Ertaş's suggestions to cool you down in the summer days are as follows:

Make Sure That Your Priority Is Always 'Pure Water'!

Choose water first to refresh. Because replacing lost water is very important for overall health. Especially consuming mixtures made to relieve edema at a time when water consumption is low can lead to worse water loss.

Make a Salad with Vegetables

It is best to avoid overly fatty foods during this time. In particular, it is useful to benefit from vegetables that can replace the water we lose with sweating and fruits with low sugar content.

When you do not want to consume vegetables as food, you can prepare healthy and satisfying salads with plenty of ingredients. Depending on their content, these salads can sometimes be used as a side dish and sometimes as a main course.

Summer Salads

Mung Bean Salad

1 cup boiled mung beans, optional amounts of dill, fresh onions, parsley, colored peppers, and other desired greens.

You can choose it as a fresh main dish with buttermilk and curd cheese that you will sprinkle on it.

Mung beans are one of the members of the legume family with high fiber content. It is a source of vitamin C, magnesium, and calcium. It contributes to gut health and is a satisfying and nutritious alternative for those who want to lose weight.

Buckwheat Salad for Those with Gluten Sensitivity

Buckwheat is one of our grains with high fiber content, very nutritious, and gluten-free. 

One of our boiled buckwheat filling salad alternatives that you will add to the optional tomato-added salad made with lettuce, arugula, parsley, and onion.

Buckwheat is rich in B complex vitamins, magnesium, manganese, copper, and fiber.

Fruity Green Salad

Salads made from fruits alone can unintentionally cause excess fructose consumption. For this reason, combining your favorite fruits with greens will both reduce your calorie intake and help you consume a more balanced plate. Cheese is a good alternative to the salad as a protein supplement.

You can prepare a fresh salad with belly lettuce, fresh mint, watermelon slices, and feta cheese.

Freeze The Yoghurt

Yoghurt, which does not end with counting the health benefits, also has a cooling feature. Moreover, you can eat plain or add fruit or freeze it.

Alternatives to sweeten the frozen fruit we want, are 5-6 spoons of yogurt, optional cocoa: honey, dates, and vanilla extract.

We put the materials you want through the blender and into the freezer. Our ice cream is ready.

Do Not Be Deceived by High Calories That Are Easy to Consume

When summer comes, ice cream consumption increases. Sometimes just because it tastes good, and sometimes just to refresh, the ice cream usually has a very high sugar content and calories. It is necessary to adjust the frequency when consuming.

Easy Cocoa Ice Cream to Make at Home

Sliced frozen half a banana, frozen 4-5 pieces of strawberries, cocoa, and a small amount of milk according to its consistency. All materials are blended. It is consumed cold.

Fruits can be optionally revised. The banana must be.

Mineral Water

Along with sweating, water loss, as well as mineral loss, occurs in the body. One of the healthiest ways to replace lost minerals is to consume natural plain mineral water. If you like the taste, you can definitely drink a glass of plain mineral water every day if you do not have a blood pressure problem or sodium restriction. If excess acid bothers you, you can revise half a glass of cold water and half of it in the form of mineral water. Keep in mind that fruit juices are high in sugar! Unnecessary sugar intake must be avoided!

Cold Green Tea to Help Relieve Edema

Boil 1 liter of water and half a finger of fresh ginger. After covering the bottom, 3 bags of green tea, a pinch of parsley, and a few slices of lemon are left to brew. After brewing, a few slices are passed through the blender with peaches, cooled in the cabinet, and consumed during the day.

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