Lindsay Ellingson, a former Victoria’s Secret model, heats up a kettle every morning so that her day can start as usually. She starts every day with a glass of warm water and this is her routine. She has heard about this from an ayurveda specialist and wanted to utilize the benefits of drinking the warm water, which are soothing of the stomach and making it easier for the body to absorb the water by heating it up.
The information about the increased temperature of the drinking water has raised some confusion. We have read so many times that we should consume cold water because this type of water accelerates and triggers the process of burning calories. Now we are asking: should we throw away our ice cube trays and buy a kettle? And if we wanted to lose some weight or if we just take care about our health, should we drink the water warm or cold?
Cassie Vanderwall, a clinical nutritionist at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin says that we should keep in mind that anytime we consume something that has different temperature than our body’s stable temperature of 98,6, we force our body to work harder.
The body is made to regulate itself by drinking cold water, but swallowing glasses of cold water will not make it burn calories as it is supposed to.
However, this does not make big of a difference. Leslie Bonci, a nutritionist and owner of Active Eating Advice says that a cup of cold water burns additional eight calories. If you have eight glasses of water a day, that makes it 64 calories for the entire day. This is only a minimal difference than drinking regular temperature water.
A study conducted in 2003 discovered that people that drink ice water experience an increase in their metabolism up to thirty percent, Lindsay Malone claims, a registered dietitian at Cleveland Clinic. In other words, if you drink half a liter of ice water every day, you burn hundred additional calories per day.
Drinking cold water does give your metabolism a boost, but drinking water in general also does that, she stated.
People who suffer from gastrointestinal issues might find warm water more soothing for their digestive system, said Bonci, but there is no scientific proof that warm water makes it easier for the body to absorb it.
Whether it is warm or cold, water has an excellent influence on our body and our health in general.
Each body that is not sufficiently hydrated faces slowing down of its metabolism, Malone says.
According to Vanderwall, gulping water will not boost the metabolism to the extent that it really helps in the process of losing weight. Drinking water, on the other hand, can direct your lifestyle to much healthier methods and habits.
If you drink water instead of soda for instance, you will consume considerably less calories. Another thing is that the controlling of both hunger and thirst is done by the same part of the brain. That is why when you are hydrated enough, your brain knows that your body cravings for food and fluids are not mixed and you will not find yourself eating when you are just thirsty.
According to Bonci, drinking greater quantities of fluids is good and beneficial and cannot do any harm to you and your body. You just need to know that drinking water, whether it is warm or cold, will not give your body considerable metabolism boost.
