It is harmful to drink cold drinks when you are hot.

When we finish our exercise our Moms always say: “Do not drink cold water! It is bad for your body... You are going to get a cramp in your stomach” why do they tell us that?

In some cases when we ignore this advice and drink cold water, we feel that our entire chest is paralyzed or like little cramps, but we don’t know what it is maybe it is because we have this idea. A lot of naive people believe in that and we want to know the truth. So we search about this popular myth.

What we know is that the cold water is bad because our body is hot, so cold and hot is not a good combination. But when we asked to some friends they told us that it is fake, that drink cold water after exercise is good because you sweat you expulse a lot of energy and you can recover it with cold water.

Doctor Christine Luft says: “When you're in hot weather, you lose extra fluids. Drinking cold water actually helps to cool you from the inside lowering your body temperature, which also helps to reduce your perceived effort.”

To conclude we think this is false, after checking the opinions of the doctors and web pages with a lot of information we realize that drinking cold water is not bad when we are hot, on the contrary it helps us to be in our normal temperature.

 We found an interesting picture..

Ramiro Ramirez; Arianna Vega