Health Adda

Not many would have imagined that surviving this summer could be tricky business. With floods, accidents, terrorism and recession playing musical chair on our media screens; the  current heat wave has been a wild card entrant. Even the PMO has stopped looking to the right or left, and joined the weathermen and astrologers in looking up at the skies to spot the elusive monsoon.                      This long hot spell, when the sun is baking the earth and the mercury jumping up to create new records, is posing major challenges to health and life. Its effects on our bodies are due to drying up (called dehydration; remember that 2/3 of our body is made up of water) or excess body heating (called heat or sun stroke due to the body’s thermostat failing to maintain our temperatures around 37 0 C), both being potentially dangerous to life.                         Dehydration is the commoner one, and according to the American College of Sports Medicine, claims around 2 million lives every year