Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Tuesday and it's the first of August. I'm Nile Boone.

Today, how fatigue illustrates the challenges with long COVID treatment,

plus what lab-grown meat tastes like. But first, how extreme heat makes hunger in America worse.

That's our one big thing.

On Sunday, Phoenix set a new record, 31-day straight of hitting at least 110 degree temperatures.

That means for local food banks like St. Mary's, they're expecting to pass out

one million bottles of water this summer, a more than 50 percent increase from last year.

Axios' Ayurella Horn Muller has been reporting on how extreme heat is hurting low-income residents

across the country. Ayurella, you talked to St. Mary's food bank in Phoenix.

What else have you learned about how food insecure households are being affected by extreme heat?

One of the first consequences of this is that when you lack high-quality food stuffs in your

diet, you're not eating things that contain a lot of water, that actually creates an exposure to

frank dehydration. And it means that it's harder for your body to dissipate heat to the environment

and causes body temperatures to increase more rapidly. There's a lot of studies that have found

that food insecure Americans, they have a tendency to make this impossible choice of

reducing the quality of their diet and their caloric intake in colder winter seasons to afford

those high utility bills to afford a heater. But now with climate change, because we're seeing

these extreme heat waves, we're starting to see a lot of these similar problems emerge too,

where you have people forced to make this decision of, will I eat the food I need to eat today,

or will I make sure I have access to AC? Given everything that you've said, what are you

hearing from different communities that are trying to make sure that especially food insecure households

have access to enough food and water this summer? There is so much strain and demand on

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