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Health & Fitness

What's Best for Sweat?

Pass on cotton clothes for hot weather exercise

When exercising in the heat of summer, remember this:  Cotton is rotten...at least as a fabric choice for exercise clothes.  Cotton absorbs more water than any other fabric type.  Perspiration that should evaporate away, allowing your body to stay cooler is trapped in the fabric and it is easy to overheat.  Cotton clothing gets heavier as well and tends to bind when it is saturated.

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