WATER???

Interesting, I have never heard that. I drink my cold sometimes and sometimes room temp, personally I would do whatever pleases you. The point is to drink water. Enjoy

I think it's more concerning the voice. I was told that cold water causes the vocal chords to tighten. As far as health though I'm sure you can drink the water however you like. Cold water even burns more calories because your body has to heat it up to a normal temperature.

I normally prefer room temperature...not sure why.

But it seems like I read somewhere that cold water is best because it makes your heart work to keep you warm...or something like that?

Must be for voice. Cold water is actually slightly better, because your body expends more energy warming it up. But, I haven't found anything that says it really makes THAT much of a difference. .

i actually read a blog on this earlier on webMD which said that ice cold water can help burn fat but room temp water is easier to drink quickly. with cold water, you have to drink it slowly or get that "swimming" feeling so it is harder to get in your 8+cups a day. with the room temp water, you can drink a big glass and feel full but not bloated.

Cold water burns only a fraction of a calorie, so it really makes no difference. In a day of drinking 8 glasses of ice cold water you might burn 1 calorie, if that.

So lately I have been drinking a lot more water than I usually do and I was just recently told that room temperature water is better than cold water for you. Does anyone know the truth to this myth?

Cold water is better it takes more calories to heat up the water... however I have heard that it is not good to drink cold water after a meal high in fat.

Actually, I heard from Dr. Oz that cold water is good for burning calories. Due to the fact that the water is cold, it takes more energy for the the body to adapt to it, thus you burn calories. Your vocal teacher is right, it keeps the vocal cords from swelling when singing for long periods of time, at least that's what I was told.

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"The comment came from my vocal teacher, so maybe it was just for the voice more than health wise????"

i could see where that would make sense...perhaps too cold of water or too hot can damage vocal cords or something...i am agreement with an earlier post...i HATE water unless it's so cold it's nearly frozen! :bigsmile:

Correct me if I'm wrong because I have a shocking memory!
But I think cold water helps speed up your metabolism, but if you drink cold water after eating it does something to the food in your stomach, like kinda clogs it up and makes it harder to digest. So room temp when and after eating.

interesting discussion!

I remembered that I went to Germany for study aboard and lived there for a month. all restuarants dont even bother give us ice cubes. i remembered that i have to drink sodas at warm temperture on warm days. even one time i was very lucky that lady decided to give me at least ONE ice cube in my doa and it melted quickly. At beginning, i had hard time to deal with drinking warm liquids and i has no choice but get adapted to their way of drinks. i started realized that warm drinks just help us to digest easily and dont give us brain freeze even cause teeth aches if we drink too cold. However, its true that we do liek to drink ice cold water in america, but its not good for our stomaches as what germans told me. .

i remembered that I do get lot of acid reflux from have warm foods and drink ice cold drink right after meal. i ended up get acid reflux and felt nausea. I just sticking to room temperature or cooling water with little ice cubes. thank to my trip to europe, I started requested little ice or none ice in my drinks at restuarants. in america.

is it odd eh?