What's the deal with drinking cold water? Is it bad for you? If you drink it, are you burning more calories? I'm here to set the record straight.
Drinking cold water is actually good for you. In order to re-hydrate after exercising, your water should be below room temperature. Colder fluids leave your stomach more quickly, so they'll get to your body faster.
When you're in hot weather, you lose extra fluids. Drinking cold water actually helps to cool you from the inside.
So now we know it's good to drink cold water, but are we burning extra calories when we do? The answer is yes. Your body is burning calories to raise the temperature of the cold water to be equal to your body temp.
Don't go running away to stick ice in all of your bottles of water just yet. Drinking a 16 ounce glass of ice water only burns 17.5 calories. But if you're strictly sticking to the 8, 8 oz glasses of water a day rule, drinking 64 oz of cold water burns 70 calories. Over time, that 70 calories a day really adds up.
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I hate urban myths! For a few years now I have tried not to drink as much cold water as I used to because I was told that it makes digestion difficult and is hard on your body! I could have lost über calories this way had I known! D'oh
1I know what you mean. My friend's Homeopathic Dr told her the same thing about cold water being bad for digestion. Weird. Well, now we know.
2youve got to be kidding me. There is no way that warming up water burns 70 kcalories for every 64 ounces, that sounds way too high!!
3All food has a thermic effect, but we are always told to ingore it because it is so slight.
Thanks for this info. I love cold water and I do drink a lot of it. Glad to know that it's not harmful and it does burn calories.
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