A Glass of Hot Water After Meals May Reduce Cancer Risk
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Some people who are dieting believe in drinking several glasses of water a little before meals. It reduces hunger and as a result the amount of food we would otherwise have eaten. Many such theories are doing the rounds all the time basically encouraging healthy life free of diseases and complications.
This is one such suggestion that promotes drinking hot water during and after meals. French and Japanese women follow this. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals…
Drinking hot water after meals reduces cancer risk. Let me explain how. Drinking cold water will solidify the oil part of the food we have eaten. This will slow down the digestion process. And when this sludge reacts with the digestive enzymes and acids, it will break down and will start getting absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. This lines the intestine. The consequence is that this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. Therefore it is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
Cold water can also in extreme circumstances lead to heart attacks. As we have our meals enzymes and acid secretions start and this process sort of warms up the body. Drinking cold water is like attacking the body with an exactly opposite temperature. Not only does the whole procedure of digestion gets interrupted or slows down, the body can also react in the form of a heart attack. It does not always come after a pain in the right arm or pain in the chest.
So warm water is the way to go to keep off cancer. It makes sense and it doesn’t cost anything. Just calls for a change in habit. In the beginning hot water doesn’t taste good but that’s simply because we have never had hot water as a routine. Once we get used to it feels fine.
Interesting find and it makes sense. Thanks for the tip!
Gives a brief reason why cold water is bad, but does not completely explain how hot water is beneficial.
This is listed on Snopes.com as an Urban Ledgend and states there is no validity to the information you provided.
I scoured every available medical database for articles confirming — or even suggesting — that drinking cold water with meals is harmful, and found not a single one. There’s no scientific basis for the claim that cold water will “solidify the oily stuff” you have just consumed, or that this “sludge” will “line the intestine,” let alone “turn into fats” and “lead to cancer.”
It’s mumbo-jumbo, and self-contradictory mumbo-jumbo at that. This states that drinking cold water “slows down the digestion,” yet in the very next sentence declares that it will cause the your stomach contents to “break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster.” Which is it?
The studies that do exist mainly extol the benefits of drinking cold water, especially during and after vigorous exercise. Cold water is absorbed by the body faster than warm water and can help lower one’s body temperature, preventing dehydration.
I totally agree. Hot water or soup not only help you not to overeat, it also ease digestion and ease constipation.
Absolute nonsense with no basis in fact. None of the cancer research societies agree with it and basic knowledge of how the body’s digestive system works would quickly show you how it cannot be true.
Soup or (any kind of) water will help you not to overeat by virtue of filling your stomach, but to make the jump to reducing or causing cancer is completely spurious.
Do you have any scientific source for this information. Looks to me like something somebody just sat around and thought up without the benefit of any experimentation or research.
There is no scientific research behind the claims about hot water and fat digestion.
It is irresponsible of a website to publish such inaccurate information since there
are actually uneducated individuals out there that will believe this information.
Agree that some of the description in the article may not make scientific sense but the motive of encouraging healthy eating habit is good. There are just too many things in the world science has not been able to explain. Sometimes we have to rely on our basic instincts and experiences of our own as well as others to have a healthy and longer life.
Well for me it’s ok to experiment with ourselves. Try to drink warm water before and after
meal for a couple of times and observe if this will cause proper digestion. There’s nothing
wrong if you want to try it and see the effects.
Try this experiment with chocolate.
Chocolate is 30-50% cocoa butter/fat. It also melts at close to body temperature, which means it will easily solidify at temperatures lower than body temp.
Eat a piece and let it melt in your mouth. Then drink cold water (heck, eat the ice cubes too). See if the chocolate solidifies in your mouth.
It won’t.
The fact is that our body regulates the temperature of all the food we eat. Hot food will be cooled to body temp, cold food will be warmed to body temp.
@ iamyuanwu very good
explained in an very humorous manner…
the stuff is a total crap
I’ve been getting this article in the mail so often.
Personally, this article is written by person’s without any scientific prove and grossly misleading on the cancer claim.
However, drinking hot rather than cold stuffs does has it’s beneficial effect.
I experienced back pain(behind the chest) for yrs and not knowing what was the cause of it. One day, a fren told me of possible serious illness, freak out, i took some hot medicinal herbal drink and the pain was gone almost immediately. My first tot was the effectiveness of the herb, but it was actually the hotness of the drink itself.
I used to take cold drinks all the time, it somehow caused my back to reduced blood circulation and hence the pain and stiffness.
I still take cold drinks though, but lesser. So, these days whenever the pain comes back, all i need is take a glass of hot water(as hot as i can) and the pain goes off.
“Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea”… I’m betting the rich antioxidants content of their tea play a more significant role in cancer prevention than the temperature of the beverage itself… Why ignore that and suggest drinking hot WATER?
Hot soup or hot tea after meal is good for you, I do agree but it will not prevent you with cancer. Cold water has nothing to do with cancer. This article has no scitific prove and misleading to the reader. To the writter, do you know any experiment support your article or it’s your opinion? Before you write this article I suggest you to do a research for it.
More than half of all cancers are genetic rather than related to diet. Scare stories about drinking cold water are irresponsible at best.
First, I would assume that when drinking cold liqud, it begins to warm up as soon as it reaches the normal 98.6 degrees warmth in your mouth and body. By the time it goes through the stomach the ice must be melted, the water getting closer to body temperature. When it finally hits the intestines, in this warm environment, how cold can it be to turn oil into sludge? Does anyone actually feel ice inside their stomach or intestines? A person can feel a cold drink if gulping quickly when it hits their stomach, but after that, the feeling completely disappears. It’s probably all warmed up. It certainly isn’t ice cold anymore. We all know that too much fat can lead to clogging of the arteries. I think that this is due to eating too many fatty foods and one’s own body chemistry, and not drinking ice water.
Does anyone ever notice some strange sludge coming out of them besides the normal stuff when using the toilet? And it doesn’t just stay in the lining if it really were there. If that were true, the stuff would show up on a barium enema x ray or certainly would be seen by a doctor doing a routine colonoscopy. The doctor would comment on the sludge build up and do extra roto rooter on you if that were the case!
How does this person who wrote such a silly thing get their information? From some 2,000 year old book written by people with little medical knowledge that we would accept in today’s doctor’s office? Puh-leeze!
if Japanese and Chinese take hot tea with their meals then why not recommend that instead of jumping to hot water?But hot water helps to those who diet,so try it fellows
Many ppl adviced dont drink hotwater mixed with Ice water,they told mixed with plain water.I dont know whats the reason behind this.Can anybody explain?
Ridiculous. Doesn’t it concern you that the Asian population has a higher rate of colon and gastrointestional cancer than other ethnic groups?
That article was sent to me this morninig by a friend. I immediately felt incredulity. What a bunch of claptrap! Thanks for all of the great posts here that refute the claim that drinking warm water after a meal can/may prevent cancer. Unfortunately, there will be too many ppl who will accept that claim - just because they read it on their computer. Let’s all of us learn to be skeptics and do some checking of these rediculous claims that come our way via our computers..
I find that soaking my feet in hot soup immediately after a meal reduces both intestinal gas and bunions, so I think this article makes good sense.
I’m happy to see that most of you feel as I do. That the information is total bunk. I kept thinking about the fact the your body will warm the water up. I do know it burns about 100 calories to heat ice cold water to body temp.
I agree with many of the other readers…no scientific evidence found what so ever.
Get a grip people, let’s educate ourselves PROPERLY instead of believing every internet article someone takes a notion to publish.