Rewarding as drinking cold water can be, it could come with serious health consequences.
Experts have said drinking cold water regularly could have negative impact on the heart and the digestive system.
Food and healthy living expert say that cold water is at a temperature that contradicts the overall temperature within the body system.
“The body is made up of 70 per cent of warm water. Water is the most important fluid in the body because it is the medium blood uses. It is the medium which circulates nutrients around the body. If the 30 per cent we drink is against the normal temperature of the body, we see how hard it is for the body to make use of it. Cold water causes distress in the tissues and blood vessels.
“The body has to warm up the cold water you drink every time to an acceptable temperature before it can take it up for digestion, nutrient and blood circulation. That is why we advise people not, take drugs with cold water. The drugs will not digest on time; it means you won’t get the best of the drugs because the water did not dissolve on time,” he said.
“The brain is one of the relatively important organs in the body, and it needs to be working all the time. We should avoid anything that will make it freeze.”
To know the right temperature of water to drink, Akinsanya says: “Put one finger in your mouth and close it. The temperature of what you feel is the temperature of water or food that you eat most times. That is what the body is used to and that is what you should give it.”
Dr. Vasant Lad, family health physician and author of Ten Habits To Drop Right Now, warns thatdrinking cold water after a meal has adverse effects on the digestive system.
“When we drink cold water, juice, or any cold fluids, we create the basis for chronic heart diseases. Cold water has a clotting effect on the blood and other fluids in the body making it difficult for it to circulate
“When the blood is free from toxins and flowing freely and properly, we can then liken the blood to an inviting swimming pool, clear and clean. It generates happiness and perfect health, energy and creativity. This individual contributes maximum to the health and wellbeing of others in an innocent, natural way,” he said.
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