As rewarding as cold water can be, in hot
weathers like ours, experts say that it comes
with serious health consequences. They warn
that one may need to hands off drinking cold
water regularly due to its negative impact on
the heart and the digestive system.
Consultant nutritionist, Dr. Tosin Akinsanya,
says even though the body cannot have too
much of water, it complains when it has too
much of cold water. According to the food and
healthy living expert, cold water is at a
temperature that contradicts the overall
temperature within the body system.
Akinsanya says that normal body temperature
of the body is between 34 and 37 oC while that
of cold water is usually between zero and two
degrees Celsius and this sudden change in
temperature levels, which usually happens
when we drink cold water, shocks the body,
leading to chronic diseases in those who drink
it over time.
“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.”
Family health physician and author of Ten
Habits To Drop Right Now, Dr. Vasant Lad,
adds that drinking cold water after a meal has
adverse effects on the digestive system. Lad
also warns against drinking cold water
immediately before a meal.
For Dr. Lucia John, a major reason why we
should ditch cold water for tepid or warm one
is its effect on the heart.
According to the healthy living expert, the
heart labours more to restore blood
circulation when we drink cold water that is
not compatible with the body’s temperature.
She says, “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.
“A body that cannot circulate its blood is like
an uninviting swimming pool in which moss
and bacteria grow. The blood may be thick,
unable to flow properly to the extremities of
the body, the hands and feet begin to feel
numb and hurt, the toes begin to hurt, and the
toenails lose their shine and may begin to
decay.
The heart labours to pump the blood
throughout the body, and the lungs fight to
keep up. The legs may swell and become dark,
when blood cannot efficiently pump back up
to the heart.
“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.”
Scientists have also solved the mystery behind
the instantaneous headache brought on by a
sip of an ice-cold drink.
According to the neurologists who analysed
the result of a study, which involved 5,000
participants over a period of five years, cold
water is not friendly to some sections of the
brain.
The researchers found that sipping it causes
an abrupt increase in blood flow to a major
artery in the brain that is then followed by the
familiar headache-like. The experts warn that
over time this effect may shrink some
receptors in the brain.
Knowing all this, we have a responsibility to
put into our bodies, only drinks and foods that
will enhance its proper functioning.
Akinsanya gives a final advice on the need to
take regularly water at a normal temperature.
“The brain is fairly sensitive to temperature
change, that is why it freezes when you drink
cold water at first. This continuous seizure is
not good for it.
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,” he adds.
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.”
weathers like ours, experts say that it comes
with serious health consequences. They warn
that one may need to hands off drinking cold
water regularly due to its negative impact on
the heart and the digestive system.
Consultant nutritionist, Dr. Tosin Akinsanya,
says even though the body cannot have too
much of water, it complains when it has too
much of cold water. According to the food and
healthy living expert, cold water is at a
temperature that contradicts the overall
temperature within the body system.
Akinsanya says that normal body temperature
of the body is between 34 and 37 oC while that
of cold water is usually between zero and two
degrees Celsius and this sudden change in
temperature levels, which usually happens
when we drink cold water, shocks the body,
leading to chronic diseases in those who drink
it over time.
“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.”
Family health physician and author of Ten
Habits To Drop Right Now, Dr. Vasant Lad,
adds that drinking cold water after a meal has
adverse effects on the digestive system. Lad
also warns against drinking cold water
immediately before a meal.
For Dr. Lucia John, a major reason why we
should ditch cold water for tepid or warm one
is its effect on the heart.
According to the healthy living expert, the
heart labours more to restore blood
circulation when we drink cold water that is
not compatible with the body’s temperature.
She says, “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.
“A body that cannot circulate its blood is like
an uninviting swimming pool in which moss
and bacteria grow. The blood may be thick,
unable to flow properly to the extremities of
the body, the hands and feet begin to feel
numb and hurt, the toes begin to hurt, and the
toenails lose their shine and may begin to
decay.
The heart labours to pump the blood
throughout the body, and the lungs fight to
keep up. The legs may swell and become dark,
when blood cannot efficiently pump back up
to the heart.
“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.”
Scientists have also solved the mystery behind
the instantaneous headache brought on by a
sip of an ice-cold drink.
According to the neurologists who analysed
the result of a study, which involved 5,000
participants over a period of five years, cold
water is not friendly to some sections of the
brain.
The researchers found that sipping it causes
an abrupt increase in blood flow to a major
artery in the brain that is then followed by the
familiar headache-like. The experts warn that
over time this effect may shrink some
receptors in the brain.
Knowing all this, we have a responsibility to
put into our bodies, only drinks and foods that
will enhance its proper functioning.
Akinsanya gives a final advice on the need to
take regularly water at a normal temperature.
“The brain is fairly sensitive to temperature
change, that is why it freezes when you drink
cold water at first. This continuous seizure is
not good for it.
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,” he adds.
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.”
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