{"id":12630,"date":"2016-07-09T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=12630"},"modified":"2023-06-03T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T02:48:00","slug":"dietary-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/dietary-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips:  Dietary Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In these dog days of summer here in Phoenix, where the temperature frequently peeks over the high side of 120\u00ba it is important to stay hydrated.&nbsp; Dietary Water is more beneficial than just drinking tap water, as it gives your body nutrients that tap water does not offer.&nbsp; Here are some choices that you can eat, or put into a blender.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watermelon<\/li>\n<li>Cucumber<\/li>\n<li>Mint<\/li>\n<li>Cantaloupe<\/li>\n<li>each<\/li>\n<li>Pineapple<\/li>\n<li>Honeydew<\/li>\n<li>Plums<\/li>\n<li>Orange<\/li>\n<li>Lemon<\/li>\n<li>Lime<\/li>\n<li>Berries<\/li>\n<li>Mango<\/li>\n<li>Pineapple<\/li>\n<li>Mint leaves, by themselves, offer little water, but help flavor the above items when blended as a beverage<\/li>\n<li>Gatorade &#8211; While not exactly natural, Gatorade helps your body retain its electrolytes.&nbsp; Just don&#8217;t drink more than a couple, or it will put your whole body chemistry off balance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is also helpful to use EVOO rather than butter through these hot months.<\/p>\n<p>You can also create a cooling device that will help lower your temperature for about thirty minutes.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take a sock and fill it with dry rice, lentils or dried beans.<\/li>\n<li>Sew up the open end and put it into the freezer.<\/li>\n<li>On the nights where it is too hot to fall asleep, put this cool sock under your neck or along side of your Adam&#8217;s apple to help your body cool down.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these dog days of summer here in Phoenix, where the temperature frequently peeks over the high side of 120\u00ba it is important to stay hydrated.&nbsp; Dietary Water is more beneficial than just drinking tap water, as it gives your body nutrients that tap water does not offer.&nbsp; Here are some choices that you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/dietary-water\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tips:  Dietary Water&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks-and-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22897,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12630\/revisions\/22897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}