NEW DELHI, May 1: "Keep an onion in your pocket. Nothing will happen to you (you will not die of sunstroke in Indian summer)", advises Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister. His tip to beat heatwave has gone viral although it was a wellknown folklore in India till a few decades ago. And that cost nothing! This especially must come in handy for Europeans this summer, if it's true—thousands of people are dying due to unprecedented heatwave sweeping the continent. Are they listening! But science says onion's volatile syn-propanethial-S-oxide has nothing to do with cardiac health. Although it has anti-inflamatory antioxidants and cooling agents, which are beneficial.
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