Cold water is well desired by human beings especially after having a hectic day or strenuous activity under the scorching sun.
We all as individuals love cold stuffs
especially after a sunny hectic day, we need some cold drinks or water
to refresh and cool our body. This includes even me that’s writing this
to you all lol; But we need to know this and how to minimize the rate at
which we take in cold drinks regularly.
According to Natural Law, our normal
body temperature is about 98.6 degrees F. If we raise that temperature a
few degrees, the body starts to show signs of distress, and we say we
have a fever. We try hard to return to homeostasis or normal
functioning.
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.
Even though cold drinks or water has
many health benefits, drinking ice water or cold water can only give
temporary relief and drinking ice water regularly has its downside.
Here are some reasons why you shouldn’t drink ice or cold water:
Here are some reasons why you shouldn’t drink ice or cold water:
1. Slows down digestion:
Drinking ice water or cold water hampers the process of digesting food
as it causes your blood vessels to shrink. This can slow down the
process of digestion and as the food is not digested properly, the
nutrients are lost or not absorbed by the body.
2. May lead to sore throat:
Drinking cold water can cause the buildup of respiratory mucosa, which
is a protective layer of the respiratory tract. When this layer gets
congested, the respiratory tract is exposed and becomes vulnerable to
various infections and hence the chances of your throat turning sore are
high.
3. Shortage of nutrients:
The body’s temperature is 37o C and when you drink something at a very
low temperature, your body has to spend energy to regulate its
temperature. This spent energy is otherwise used to digest food and
absorb nutrients, thereby leaving your body short of nutrition.
4. Decreases your heart rate: Drinking
ice water or cold water decreases your heart rate. Studies have shown
that drinking ice water stimulates the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve is the 10th cranial
nerve and is an important part of the body’s autonomous nervous system
that controls involuntary actions of the body. The vagus nerve mediates
the lowering of the heart rate and the low temperatures of ice cold
water act as a stimulus to the nerve which causes the heart rate to
drop.
In conclusion, take water at a normal
temperature, the brain is sensitive to temperature change which is why
it freezes when one drinks cold water at first, adding that such
continuous seizure is not good for it, more so that is why we advise
people not to 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.
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