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How to have a safe, healthy summer · Silver FM 100.6

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  Speaker 1: Richard Reeves is unimpressed by online influencers who pedal ideas
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  Speaker 1: about hyper masculinity.
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  Speaker 2: You're talking about boys and men. Where's your policy agenda?
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  Speaker 3: You're good on podcasts, but we've actually done a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of stuff for boys and men.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, what have you done?
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  Speaker 1: Ideas about the next era of manhood? That's on the
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  Speaker 1: Ted Radio Hour podcast. Listen on the NPR app or
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  Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to Life Kit from NPR. Hey, it's Mary l.
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  Speaker 4: I know it's not technically summer yet, but once June hits,
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  Speaker 4: it feels like it is, and we start doing all
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  Speaker 4: the summer things, going to the pool sipping Italian ices,
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  Speaker 4: holding our noses when we walk past garbage cans because
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  Speaker 4: that stuff smells way worse when it's hot. Now, at
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  Speaker 4: Life Kit, we are always giving you tips on how
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  Speaker 4: to stay healthy, and we realized summer presents some unique
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  Speaker 4: opportunities on that front. It's an easier time to get
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  Speaker 4: enough sunlight, to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, maybe even
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  Speaker 4: to exercise outdoors if it's not unbearably hot.
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  Speaker 3: It's also a risky.
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  Speaker 4: Time we're outside, we're jumping into bodies of water. We're
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  Speaker 4: baking under the hot sun. We are lighting fires and
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  Speaker 4: cooking over them. If we're going to do these things,
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  Speaker 4: we ought to do them right. Take grilling, for example.
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  Speaker 5: Generally speaking, you don't necessarily want anything above your grill.
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  Speaker 5: It might not be the best setup to place your
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  Speaker 5: grill on a balcony where there.
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  Speaker 3: Is someone else's balcony above yours.
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  Speaker 5: And you generally don't want to place your grill along
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  Speaker 5: your house siding because it gets really hot.
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  Speaker 3: This is Jess Larsen.
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  Speaker 4: She's the founder of a food blog called plays Well
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  Speaker 4: with Butter Love.
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  Speaker 3: That name a few other precautions.
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  Speaker 5: She mentions, it's always a good idea to have a
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  Speaker 5: fire extinguisher on hand, and just the knowledge that air
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  Speaker 5: feeds flames and when end out, close the lid and
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  Speaker 5: let the fire die out on its own.
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  Speaker 3: On this episode of Life Kit, we're going to give
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  Speaker 3: you the scoop.
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  Speaker 4: On how to stay healthy and safe this summer, and
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  Speaker 4: grilling is just the start.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk about healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Summer cooking and swimming and extreme heat and bugs and more.
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  Speaker 6: On June eleventh, the globe's biggest sporting event comes to
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  Speaker 6: North America. The FIFA World Cup.
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  Speaker 7: The Super Bowl and you might say averages something over
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  Speaker 7: one hundred million live viewers, but the World Cup final
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  Speaker 7: think like five times that.
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  Speaker 6: Much, the favorites, the underdogs, and the Americanization of the
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  Speaker 6: world's game. Listen now to the Sunday story from the
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  Speaker 6: Up First podcast on the NPR app.
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  Speaker 3: Question, do you know how to swim? Like for real?
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  Speaker 4: If you're not sure, take away one summer is a
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  Speaker 4: good moment to test your swimming skills and maybe take
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  Speaker 4: a swimming class that could save your life.
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  Speaker 3: And swimming is also just a great.
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  Speaker 4: Way to get exercise when it's hot outside. The Red
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  Speaker 4: Cross has a list of five basic skills that you
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  Speaker 4: need at a minimum to save yourself in the water.
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  Speaker 4: The first you should be comfortable with submerging your whole body,
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  Speaker 4: including your head, under the water. The second is you
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  Speaker 4: should be able to return to the surface and float
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  Speaker 4: or tread water for one minute. Colin Jones is a
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  Speaker 4: former Olympic swimmer and it's his mission now to make
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  Speaker 4: sure people know how to swim.
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  Speaker 2: One of the biggest things about treading water and also
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  Speaker 2: floating is taking in a deep breath. When you take
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  Speaker 2: in that deep breath, your lungs at that point essentially
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  Speaker 2: become a booie.
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  Speaker 4: The third skill is if you're in a pool, you
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  Speaker 4: should be able to turn around in a full circle
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  Speaker 4: and find an exit. And the fourth is you should
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  Speaker 4: be able to swim twenty five yards to that exit
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  Speaker 4: without stopping.
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  Speaker 2: So the pool that you're thinking of in your head,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably a twenty five yard pool.
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  Speaker 4: Lastly, you should be able to get out of the
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  Speaker 4: water without using a ladder. Colin says you can think
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  Speaker 4: elbow elbow, tommy knee, knee.
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  Speaker 2: Elbow, elbow, so you're putting both of your elbows up
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  Speaker 2: on the surface, lifting yourself up to your stomach so
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  Speaker 2: you're halfway out, and then you're trying to bring your
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  Speaker 2: knee up, one knee up and then the other knee up,
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  Speaker 2: and then you should be able to stand up at
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  Speaker 2: that point.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't have these skills or you're not a
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  Speaker 4: confident swimmer, take a swim class. It's never too late
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  Speaker 4: to start. You can go to USA Swimming dot org,
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  Speaker 4: forward slash make a splash to find a class near you.
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  Speaker 4: And if you have kids in your life, there's even
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  Speaker 4: more to consider here because drowning is the number one
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  Speaker 4: cause of death for children ages one to four in
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  Speaker 4: the United States. The American Association of Pediatrics recommends swim
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  Speaker 4: classes for kids and says you can start when they're
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  Speaker 4: as young as one year old. Beyond that, take away two.
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  Speaker 4: If your kids are near a body of water, whether
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  Speaker 4: that's the pool, a lake, the ocean, designate an adult
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  Speaker 4: water watcher, someone who knows it's their job to watch
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  Speaker 4: the water and the kids in it. Shaisik Sonoda is
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  Speaker 4: the founder and executive director of the drowning prevention nonprofit
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  Speaker 4: No More Under.
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  Speaker 8: Often these tragedies happen because someone thinks someone else is watching.
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  Speaker 8: Someone thinks that someone else has an eye on the
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  Speaker 8: kids or on the pool, and so really being focused
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  Speaker 8: on watching the water. I often say that the amount
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  Speaker 8: of time it takes to read and answer a text
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  Speaker 8: message is the amount of time it takes a child
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  Speaker 8: to drown.
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  Speaker 4: She says water watchers should be sober and alert and
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  Speaker 4: have their phone nearby in case they need to call
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  Speaker 4: nine one one.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to be a killjoy and say, hey,
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  Speaker 8: don't go drinking at pool parties. I just think that
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  Speaker 8: it's really important that you have someone who is a
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  Speaker 8: responsible adult there. Just like you have a designated driver,
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  Speaker 8: you should definitely have a designated person.
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  Speaker 4: And if there are other adults around, switch off every
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  Speaker 4: fifteen or twenty minutes so no one loses focus. All right,
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  Speaker 4: Next up, take away three. Take advantage of the sunlight,
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  Speaker 4: but be safe. We humans need the sun. Getting some
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  Speaker 4: sun exposure every day helps us sleep better. It can
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  Speaker 4: improve our mood and lower our stress levels, lower our
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  Speaker 4: blood pressure, increase our metabolism, and more. It also allows
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  Speaker 4: our bodies to create vitamin D, a substance we need
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  Speaker 4: to support our bones, our muscles, and our immune system.
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  Speaker 4: So make sure you're getting outside for at least fifteen
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  Speaker 4: minutes a day, ideally at a time when it's cooler
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  Speaker 4: like the morning. Also, though, don't overdo it. If you're
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  Speaker 4: going to be outside for hours, definitely cover your skin
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  Speaker 4: and wear sunscreen so you don't burn, and make sure
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  Speaker 4: you stay hydrated and cool. So hydration. Look, you know
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  Speaker 4: you're supposed to do this, but I'm going to say
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  Speaker 4: it anyway. Drink lots of water that helps your body
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  Speaker 4: make the sweat that it needs to cool you down.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's really.
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  Speaker 4: Hot out, skip the beer or the cocktail it's just
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  Speaker 4: going to dehydrate you and increase your risk of heat exhaustion.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Paul Shram from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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  Speaker 9: We recommend avoiding alcohol during extreme temperatures.
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  Speaker 10: People should be drinking water, sports drinks, or clear juices
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  Speaker 10: to help stay hydrated.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if you're outside and you need to cool down quickly,
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  Speaker 4: try putting an ice pack or a wet towel on
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  Speaker 4: the back of your neck, under your armpits, or on
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  Speaker 4: your groin, because some of the body's major blood vessels
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  Speaker 4: are closer to the skin in those areas. Doctor Renee
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  Speaker 4: Salis is an attending physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and
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  Speaker 4: she has some tips for when you're indoors. For instance,
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  Speaker 4: keep your curtains closed.
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  Speaker 11: Try to keep your house as cool as possible by
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  Speaker 11: covering windows to keep the sun out, not using your
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  Speaker 11: oven or things that will actually heat up the inside
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  Speaker 11: of your house, Opening up the house when it's cool,
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  Speaker 11: like in the morning, and using fans to try to
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  Speaker 11: bring that cool air in.
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  Speaker 4: You can do the same thing at night, open the
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  Speaker 4: windows to let the heat out from the day. By
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  Speaker 4: the way, she mentioned ovens, if you're giving yours a
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  Speaker 4: rest on a hot day. Salads and grain bowls are
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  Speaker 4: a great alternative anything you could throw together with minimal cooking.
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  Speaker 4: I like to make quinoa on the stovetop and then
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  Speaker 4: toss in garbanzobeians, raw cherry tomatoes, fresh dill, olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, raisins,
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes pickled carrots.
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  Speaker 3: It's really good.
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  Speaker 4: Or you could make an arugul a salad with goat cheese,
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  Speaker 4: fresh blue beares and walnuts.
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  Speaker 3: That brings me to.
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  Speaker 4: Take away for Summer is a great time to eat
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  Speaker 4: more whole foods. We know that ultraprocessed foods are bad
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  Speaker 4: for our health. Here's NPR Health correspondent Maria Goodoy.
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  Speaker 12: There is a lot of research linking over consumption of
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  Speaker 12: ultra process foods to poor health outcomes. So they see
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  Speaker 12: an increased risk of things like type two diabetes, obesity, hypertension,
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  Speaker 12: dying from cardiovascular disease. In Factor's research showing that eating
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  Speaker 12: too much ultra processed foods increases your risk of dying
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  Speaker 12: prematurely from all causes, and the evidence is pretty strong
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  Speaker 12: and consistent for all of those risks.
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  Speaker 4: We also know that fruits and vegetables are packed with nutrients,
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  Speaker 4: which is why nutrition experts tell you to eat the rainbow.
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  Speaker 13: Why are we supposed to eat such colorful food?
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  Speaker 11: Why are blueberries so.
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  Speaker 3: Good for us?
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  Speaker 13: Well, in that pigment there are phytonutrients, compounds like carotenoids
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  Speaker 13: and flavonoids and anthocyanins. Those are all big words for
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  Speaker 13: compounds that actually really protect us.
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  Speaker 4: This is Alison Aubrey, also a health correspondent at NPR.
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  Speaker 3: I remember the.
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  Speaker 13: Very first time that this made sense to me. I
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  Speaker 13: was on a reporting assignment at UC Davis. I was
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  Speaker 13: visiting a scientist who was leading a study to evaluate
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  Speaker 13: the levels of antioxidants and other compounds in tomatoes. And
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  Speaker 13: we were squatted down in this field and he was
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  Speaker 13: showing me this tomato and he described how it was
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  Speaker 13: packed with these compounds like flavonoids and antioxidants, and I
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  Speaker 13: kind of looked at him, like, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 13: He said, Look, the more a plant has to struggle
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  Speaker 13: to defend itself from the sun, from the rain, you know,
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  Speaker 13: from extreme temperatures, the more it develops these kind of
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  Speaker 13: defensive compounds, which in turn can help protect us too.
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  Speaker 13: These are the things that can help stave off chronic
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  Speaker 13: disease and keep us healthy, which is why we're told
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  Speaker 13: to eat daily servings of fruits and vegetables.
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  Speaker 4: The good news is, in the summer, you have the
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  Speaker 4: cornucopia in front of you. Take your pick, plump blackberries,
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  Speaker 4: sweet ripe peaches, juicy heirloom tomatoes. Find out what fruits
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  Speaker 4: and vegetables are in season during each part of the
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  Speaker 4: summer and celebrate them. Another one of my favorite easily
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  Speaker 4: assembled summer lunches is sourdough bread toasted with butter on top,
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  Speaker 4: a chunky slice of in season heirloom tomato, and sea
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  Speaker 4: salt and honey on top of that. All right, we'll
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  Speaker 4: have more life Kit summer health tips after the break.
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  Speaker 10: The surreal horror film back Rooms is a smash. The
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  Speaker 10: director is a twenty year old YouTuber and it's based
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  Speaker 10: on his popular web series Why is this online phenomenon
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  Speaker 10: taking off at the box office? We get into it
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  Speaker 10: on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour. Listen via the NPR
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  Speaker 10: app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it is time to talk about the things that
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  Speaker 4: creep and crawl. I wanted to say bugs, but we
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  Speaker 4: have learned that ticks are not technically classified as bugs.
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  Speaker 4: There're are rachnids along with their friends, spiders and scorpions.
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  Speaker 4: It's estimated that about thirty one million people in the
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  Speaker 4: US get bitten by a tick every year. Summer is
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  Speaker 4: peak season for this, and unfortunately, ticks can spread diseases
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  Speaker 4: like lime take away five. Take tick bite prevention seriously.
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  Speaker 4: If you're spending time outdoors in the summer, especially in
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  Speaker 4: an area where ticks are common, like the Northeast, cover
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  Speaker 4: your skin as much as possible. For instance, if you're
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  Speaker 4: going on a hike or working in the yard, you
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  Speaker 4: could wear long sleeves and long pants and tuck your
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  Speaker 4: pants into your socks. I know it's hard to do
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  Speaker 4: that when it's hot, which is one reason I don't
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  Speaker 4: hike in the summer, But you can choose fabrics that
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  Speaker 4: are more breathable and then spray your clothes in your
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  Speaker 4: skin with an EPA recommended repellent. The CDC recommends that
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  Speaker 4: you use a bug spray with a chemical permethrin on
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  Speaker 4: your clothes, but not on your skin. On your skin,
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  Speaker 4: you want to use deet. If you are hiking, stay
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  Speaker 4: on the trail and out of the tall grass. And
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  Speaker 4: when you get home, do a tick check right away.
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  Speaker 4: N PR health correspondent p walk me through this last summer.
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  Speaker 4: She says, generally speaking, the longer a tick is latched
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  Speaker 4: onto your body, the more likely it is to spread.
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  Speaker 7: Disease coming in from the outside. It might be helpful to,
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  Speaker 7: like a throw your clothes in the dryer because putting
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  Speaker 7: them on high heat for ten minutes will kill any
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  Speaker 7: ticks that are kind of still crawling around on them.
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  Speaker 7: And then you want to jump in the shower, which
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  Speaker 7: will wash any ticks off you. And I also give
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  Speaker 7: you a chance to check all those places on your
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  Speaker 7: body that might have been covered with clothes that now
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  Speaker 7: you can check for ticks.
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  Speaker 4: And if you've never seen a tick, here's what you're
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  Speaker 4: looking for. By the way, this is Becky Sen, a
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  Speaker 4: research biologist at the CDC.
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  Speaker 14: People are often surprised by how small these critters are.
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  Speaker 14: So if you can picture in everything bagel and adults
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  Speaker 14: is about the size of a sesame seeds and the
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  Speaker 14: little white seeds on there, and then the nymphs are
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  Speaker 14: about the size of a poppy seed, so those tiny
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  Speaker 14: little black seeds, so they're often difficult to find, particularly
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  Speaker 14: those really small nimbs, which is probably helps to explain
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  Speaker 14: why so many human infections are associated with nymphle bites.
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  Speaker 4: Becky is specifically talking about deer ticks, which are ticks
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  Speaker 4: that can carry lime disease. Lone star ticks, which can
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  Speaker 4: carry other diseases, are often a little bit bigger, and
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  Speaker 4: dog ticks, also potential disease carriers, can be much bigger
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  Speaker 4: than that. A couple of other things to help you
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  Speaker 4: identify ticks, they don't have wings, and the nymphs and
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  Speaker 4: adults that are the most likely to bite you each
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  Speaker 4: have eight legs. Now, if you do find a tick
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  Speaker 4: on your body, Pink says, don't throw it out right away,
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  Speaker 4: as eager as you might be to get rid of.
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  Speaker 7: It, because there's some information that it would help you
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  Speaker 7: to collect in order to sort of understand what your
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  Speaker 7: risk is. So you can try to take a really
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  Speaker 7: clear picture of it. You can submit that to some
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  Speaker 7: experts to get some consult try to figure out like
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  Speaker 7: what kind of tick is it, what life stage is
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  Speaker 7: it in, and that information will help you, and also,
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  Speaker 7: like a doctor, if you actually do seek some medical care,
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  Speaker 7: figure out what your risks are.
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  Speaker 4: You can submit a photo to the University of Rhode
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  Speaker 4: Island's Tick and Counter website, and they also have field
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  Speaker 4: guides with photos you can use as a reference. Some
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  Speaker 4: symptoms of lime disease to look out for and definitely
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  Speaker 4: tell your doctor about aches and pains, fever, a rash, fatigue,
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  Speaker 4: and swollen lymph nodes, among other things. Okay, last up, mosquitoes,
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  Speaker 4: the buzzy flying creatures that sneak into my apartment during
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  Speaker 4: the summer and torment me all night, whizzing by my ear,
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  Speaker 4: mocking me with their high pitched song.
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  Speaker 3: When you're outside.
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  Speaker 4: Your best defense against mosquito bites is a bug repellent
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  Speaker 4: that includes the chemical DAT. Here's Sammy Ramsey, a professor
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  Speaker 4: of entomology at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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  Speaker 9: If you think for a moment about what it is
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  Speaker 9: that DAT is doing for you, it provides hours and
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  Speaker 9: hours of consistent relief by confusing the capacity of the
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  Speaker 9: mosquitoes to smell you, and if they can't smell you,
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  Speaker 9: they can't locate you as a host. It basically camouflages
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  Speaker 9: your chemical scent so that you do not actually smell
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  Speaker 9: like a human being or a host for them.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, the CDC also says these EPA registered
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  Speaker 4: insect repellents have been proven to be effective against mosquitoes,
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  Speaker 4: but cardon ir three five three five and oil of
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  Speaker 4: lemon eucalyptus. So that's our takeaway. Six use bugspray with
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  Speaker 4: one of these ingredients to handle mosquitoes outside. And when
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  Speaker 4: you do use bugspray, make sure you do it right.
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  Speaker 4: Sammy says, a lot of people don't.
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  Speaker 9: I've seen people just kind of sprits it like cologne,
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  Speaker 9: like a little bit here, a little bit there, rub
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  Speaker 9: it together. That's not going to help you. You want
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  Speaker 9: to make a sweeping motion each time you spray it
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  Speaker 9: so that the chemical is actually landing in very well
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  Speaker 9: distributed amounts across your skin instead of piling up in
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  Speaker 9: one area.
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  Speaker 4: Now, the American Academy of Pediatrics says anyone under two
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  Speaker 4: might have skin different from that of an adult or
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  Speaker 4: even an older child, so apply deep sparingly to them.
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  Speaker 4: But for most of us, experts say deep is effective
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  Speaker 4: and safe when you use it correctly. A few other
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  Speaker 4: best practices when it comes to bugsprays, apply it in
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  Speaker 4: open areas, not in enclosed spaces, and if you're putting
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  Speaker 4: it on your face. Don't spray it directly, spray it
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  Speaker 4: into your hands, then rub it on your skin and
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  Speaker 4: wash off your bug spray with soap and water when
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  Speaker 4: you get back inside. Now, if it's the middle of
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  Speaker 4: the night and there's a mosquito in your room, you
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  Speaker 4: might have to go on a mosquito hunt, which is
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  Speaker 4: usually what I do. But if you're super tired, you
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  Speaker 4: can try turning on a fan or the ac to
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  Speaker 4: keep the mosquito away from you. And if you do
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  Speaker 4: get bitten by a mosquito, don't scratch. You don't want
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  Speaker 4: a risk infection. Instead, apply some ice or some hydrocortisone
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: cream or alo and maybe cover the bite with a
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  Speaker 4: bandage to make scratching harder. All right, time for a recap.
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  Speaker 3: Take Away one.
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  Speaker 4: Summer is a good moment to test your swimming skills
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  Speaker 4: and maybe take a class that could save your life. Also,
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  Speaker 4: swimming is just a great way to get exercise when
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  Speaker 4: it's hot outside. Take Away two. If your kids are
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  Speaker 4: near a body of water, whether that's a pool, a lake,
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  Speaker 4: the ocean, designate an adult water someone who knows it's
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  Speaker 4: their job to watch the water and the kids in it.
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  Speaker 4: Take Away three. Take advantage of the sunlight, but be safe.
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  Speaker 4: We humans do need the sun, but you don't want
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  Speaker 4: to overdo it right, So if you're gonna be outside
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  Speaker 4: for hours, cover your skin, wear sunscreen so you don't burn,
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  Speaker 4: and make sure you stay hydrated. One tip is to
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  Speaker 4: put ice or a cold wet towel on the back
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  Speaker 4: of your neck, under your armpit, or on your groin
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  Speaker 4: to cool down faster.
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  Speaker 3: Take Away four.
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  Speaker 4: Summer is a great time to eat more whole foods.
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  Speaker 4: Find out what fruits and vegetables are in season during
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  Speaker 4: each part of the summer and celebrate them. My all
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  Speaker 4: time favorite is a juicy ripe peach. Take Away five.
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  Speaker 4: Take tick bite prevention seriously. If you're spending time outdoors
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  Speaker 4: in the summer, especially in an area where ticks are common,
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  Speaker 4: like the Northeast, cover your skin as much as possible.
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  Speaker 4: When you get home, throw your clothes in the dryer
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  Speaker 4: to kill any ticks, and take a shower. And if
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  Speaker 4: you do get bitten, don't throw the tick out right away.
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  Speaker 4: Take a picture and look for resources to help you
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  Speaker 4: identify what kind of ticket is. Finally, take away six,
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  Speaker 4: to prevent mosquito bites, use bug spray with ingredients like
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: dat picardon ir three five three five or oil of
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  Speaker 4: lemon eucalyptus. And when you do use bugspray, make sure
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  Speaker 4: you do it right. Don't just spritz it here and
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  Speaker 4: there like perfume. Use a sweeping motion all over your
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