Drinking Hot Water

Big news: You're drinking water all wrong!

You've always known it. With mechanisms like brain freeze and toothaches, your body is trying to tell you that the glass of ice-cold H2O is ill-conceived.

Really, it's true.
Don't take my word for it.

In China, drinking cold or iced water might invite "a chorus of criticism," Nicole Liu, a self-described "devoted hot water drinker," wrote for the Los Angeles Times. When it comes to health, traditional Chinese medicine promotes "harmony," and it is believed that drinking cold water takes the body out of equilibrium by knocking it out of its optimal working temperature.

"In regards to the body, cold blocks the meridian channels, slows and even congeals blood circulation and diminishes organ functioning to less than optimal ability," Mee Lain Ling, a registered doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, wrote on her website in 2013.

A more historical explanation has to do with China's infrastructure, as boiling water was a way to combat the risk of catching parasites and disease from tap water after the Communist Chinese Revolution in 1949, Liu wrote for the LA Times

So next time you're at your favorite restaurant:

Ask for it hot.

Because maybe 1.3 billion people have it right.

 

This article is BS. True scalding hot water is served in restuarants and private homes vs. cold water. That's one reason esophageal cancer is rampant in China. They think Westerners are crazy for wanting cold water or even room temp water. Some Western companies installed water machines in their Chinese companies break rooms and the machines offer cold water or super hot water. The Chinese employees laughed that anyone would drink cold water. Finally they had to admit they love cold water to drink after they tried it a few times.

 

I drink coffee day and night, but hot coffee doesn't even compare with the hot water they drink. It's so hot it causes cell damage from the mouth to the stomach.