You may be the best man in your best friend's wedding. Your duties will include hosting the stag party, showing support for the groom and keeping the wedding rings safe. But what you will most probably dread is the wedding speech when you have to make a toast to the couple in front of many family, friends and acquaintances, maybe even strangers.

So, now you want to find the most effective ways how to prevent sweating especially when you are giving the toast. Your desire to keep it cool during the wedding speech will start with controlling the excessive sweat emanating from your armpits and hands. Your anxiety about giving the right message will aggravate your excessive sweating so much so that dread will overtake your person and there goes your speech.

Well, why worry so much when you can take the right measures to avoid excessive sweating from the start of the wedding march until the last song in the wedding reception is played? The following have been proved as the most effective ways to stop sweating, be it during a wedding or during daily activities.

Change the Pre-Wedding Diet

Let's start with the pre-wedding diet. A couple of weeks before the big day you should eliminate spicy, salty and sweet foods from your diet since these foods trigger the sympathetic nerve system to go on overdrive. Besides, you have experienced the sweaty aftereffects of eating spicy foods while sugary and salty foods tend to inhibit the body's normal reaction to stressful situations, such as is the case with giving a wedding speech.

We also recommend drinking plenty of water from 6 to 8 tall glasses a day. You may think that doing so is counterintuitive to preventing excessive sweat but this is not so. Water helps the body to maintain normal temperature instead of becoming overheated and, thus, excessive sweating can be avoided.

You can also eat more foods with sweat-inhibiting properties to lessen your propensity to sweat like a mini-waterfall. Your new diet should consist of fruits like avocado, oranges, watermelons and bananas as well as whole grains, vegetables and nuts. In fact, while you were adopting the ways on how to prevent sweating, you were actually becoming healthier with the new diet.

Change the Clothes

If you clothes before were on the tight-fitting side, you should start shopping for a new wardrobe. Not only do tight-fitting clothes make it difficult to breathe for fear of bursting through the seams but it also makes the skin feel constricted with very little room to allow the pores to breathe. As a result, excessive sweating results from the physical restrictions with the added burden of the sweat patches easily showing through the clothes.

I recommend instead, that clothng fits the body in just the right manner - not too tight as to restrict movement but not too loose as to provide for unflattering silhouettes. Also, look for clothes with cool fabrics like cotton, silk and satin.

You should also use natural antiperspirants, take daily baths and drink herbal teas. It also helps to be prepared with your short message, practice it and then just be yourself when giving it.

Indeed, with these methods on how to prevent sweating, being the best man in a wedding will be one of your most-awaited occasions. Besides, it's oftentimes better than being the groom.