Drinking Cold Water

[milly143]

Is there any definative evidence that drinking cold water as opposed to room temperature water is bad for you? A quick google search seems to throw up conflicting arguments.

[Sqad]

"Bad for you?"

I cannot see any difference in drinking water at room temperature than drinking cold water. Ice cold water sometimes gives some people headaches.

Why the interest?

[TheOtherHalf]

funnily enough, I was only thinking the same yesterday. I have been drinking a lot of cold water to soothe my sore dry throat but it makes feel shivery inside and thought perhaps boiled warm or hot water may be better as I know a lot of people do, but the thought of drinking luke warm water sound awful. I would be interested to know which way is best

[milly143]

Red - if slip a voddy in the bottle nobody will notice! :o)

Pixi - was it by any chance a company called Evian that told you that? What about brushing your teeth? Don't you use tap water?

Sqad - was just interested as we were having a (seemingly very dull) conversation yesterday about about if we prefer cold/warm water and I remembered hearing something about cold water being bad for you. When I searched yesterday there were a few things saying the body has to work harder to get the water to the right temp so you end up losing water but also some saying that it's better to drink it cold as the body has to work harder so it burns calories (miracle weight loss maybe). To be honest both of these sounded like a load of tosh but I'm still intrigued if there is any benefit or disadvantage with one over the other.

[Sqad]

milly.....I agree....."load of tosh"

[sandyRoe]

While we're on the subject of cold, does sitting on cold surfaces give people piles?

[Sqad]

sandy....NO....it´s a myth.

[TheOtherHalf]

piles of what?

[Sqad]

red.........yes if you are naked ;-)

[sandyRoe]

"Piles of what?" Piles of haemmaroids :-(

[Bbbananas]

I was made an offer once of having my haemorrhoids cured by sitting on my neighbour's 'crystal healing chair'.

I gave it a go - even though I never had any haemorrhoids to begin with.

She is a white witch. Bless her. I only did it for a fag.

[ummmm]

Pixi does have a point. The hot water can come from a tank. God knows whats in it...dead birds and stuff.

[Sqad]

headwreck....I can see some mileage in that statement. Firstly it would relieve the pain and secondly the ice cube would shrink the pile by squeezing out the blood.

Of course, one would have to have a plentiful supply of ice cubes as they would soon melt ;-)

[TheOtherHalf]

and you would have to make sure you are sat over the loo whilst they melt or wear a pad lol

As for drinking warm water, I dont think you are ever supposed to drink it from the hot tap, but to boil the cold water first and let it cool