2006-09-21 04:19:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Technically, cold water would lower your temperature just because it will grab more heat from your body.
However, you run a slight risk (and I mean very very slight) of cooling the blood that is going back to the heart and the heart does not take kindly to sudden temperature changes. Some elderly people have collapsed from this.
So I would try drinking drinks that are not chilled with ice...just out of the refrigerator or something. It doesnt have to be hot.
2006-09-21 04:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by leikevy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In hot weather, you want a beverage that will act as a heat sink, absorbing as much thermal energy as possible as quickly as possible. A beverage with a lower boiling point will also draw thermal energy and transition your body to a lower energy state in a more rapid fashion.
The ideal beverage for this purpose, then, is beer. As cold as possible. Since it has alcohol, it can actually be chilled lower than the freezing point of water before becoming ice itself, which means it has that much more thermal capacity. It is also able to be consumed in large quantities very rapidly, which will greatly facilitate rapid cooling. You can try to chug two pints of chilled vodka, but I wouldn't want to be standing anywhere nearby when it rebounds.
In cold weather, however, the trick is to lower your core temperature so the the outer somatic tissue doesn't realize that it is cold out. A beverage with alcohol will also help because it will act as an anti-freeze and help to keep the blood flowing. So once again, you should drink beer.
See? Scientific justification (if you needed any) for drinking beer.
2006-09-21 12:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is so obvious!
Definitely a cold drink would cool our body better on a hot day as it as tendency to absorb more heat from body.
Would you like to drink hot coffee on the hot day?
2006-09-21 13:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by § mǎddy § 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a drink lower that your body temperature of 37 would cool you. 'Hot' and 'cold' are relative terms depending on the situation.
ie. that over at 180 degrees is colder than that blowtorch at 1000 degrees
2006-09-21 11:25:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm trying to imagine any slightly reasonable explanation for why a hot drink would be better, and I'm coming up blank.
2006-09-21 15:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by Zhimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cold I would think.
2006-09-21 11:20:55 · answer #6 · answered by Virginia Gal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont care what a silly question Shin ;)
2006-09-21 11:58:01 · answer #7 · answered by AudioMog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋