Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast.

I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com.

Did you know that you hear the term the Dog Days of Summer very often?

The real Dog Days refers to the weeks between July 3rd and August 11th.

These are named after the star called Sirius in the constellation of Canis Major.

That's where that phrase comes from.

Another fun experiment that someone mentioned to me recently having to do with summer is

if you want to find out what the temperature is and you don't have a thermometer or a smartphone

on you, the frequency of the cricket's chirps is supposed to fluctuate with the temperature.

They say you can count a cricket's chirps for 15 seconds and then add 37 and you'll have

the approximate outdoor temperature in Fahrenheit.

So just a random cool fact.

And as you may have guessed, today's podcast is going to be about getting ready for a healthy

summer.

And I've gotten so many questions via email and on the blog lately about various aspects

of preparing for summer, whether it be meal planning for when kids are out of school

or natural sunscreen or natural bug spray, different hair care products for summer just

across the board.

So rather than bringing on a guest today, it's just going to be me talking about summer

and about getting ready for a healthy summer with your family.

And I definitely for one extremely ready for summer to be here, which I was at the beach

the entire time, but I'm just glad for the warmer weather after the winter we had.

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