BEWARE: Drinking Cold Water Can Harm You

As 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.

According to Dr. Tosin Akinsanya, a consultant nutritionist, though the body cannot have too much of water, it complains when it has too much of cold water.

He explained that normal body temperature is between 34 and 37 oC while that of cold water is usually between zero and two degrees Celsius and the 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.