Why you can not drink hot cold
'22.12.2022'
Source: Clever
Warm food should not burn the lips, and cold food should not freeze the teeth. This proverb is among the professional, which is well known to physicians not only as a well-known saying, but also as a medical postulate.
Any gastroenterologist, giving advice on healthy eating, will first of all pay attention to the temperature of the food. As Dr. Artem Vaseev explains, ideally, the temperature of your dishes should not exceed 60 degrees. Clever. Cold you can eat only vegetables and fruits, and then only in between main meals. Even if the stomach does not have time to digest them, they will be absorbed completely in the small intestine.
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But this does not happen with hot food, which is immediately washed down with cold water, or food is swallowed directly from the refrigerator. In 1969, the Soviet scientist Vitaly Lindenbraten, during an x-ray study, drew attention to an interesting fact. To conduct the experiment, it was necessary that porridge linger in the stomach of the subject for a while while the X-ray unit was being prepared (then it was not so perfect).
When the porridge entered the stomach in a cold form, it left it so quickly that the scientists did not even have time to start the equipment. After more detailed research, Dr. Lindenbraten found that warm food is digested by the stomach from four to five hours, and cold (or hot, when it is immediately washed down with cold water) moves almost undigested into the intestine after 20 minutes, that is, it is simply pushed out.
But in the stomach, it must undergo a certain preparation for subsequent processing and assimilation. Cold food or water does not allow, for example, the protein part of the food to be split into amino acids. Once in the intestine almost undigested, the proteins begin to rot there. It causes colic, inflammation and even poisoning.
There is another huge minus drinking hot food with cold drinks. Releasing quickly from food, the stomach does not have time to give us a signal of saturation, I want to eat more and more, and this is a direct way to obesity. By the way, owners of fast foods successfully use this property of unsaturation of the body. They offer ice-cold carbonated drinks to hot burgers or fries. Wash it down, a person constantly experiences a feeling of malnutrition and orders his own food more and more.
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Scientists from the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore claim that the habit of eating cold food immediately after hot food not only slows down digestion, but also constricts blood flow, and also slows down the body's hydration. Spasms and colic are common with this way of eating. When it is practiced for a long time, there is a slow metabolism, obesity, constipation, inflammatory processes not only of the stomach, but of the entire digestive system. The general well-being of a person worsens: he is overcome by weakness, he feels chronic fatigue, becomes drowsy. But one has only to switch to food at a normal temperature - and health improves.
Artem Vaseev gives an example: in hot weather, people eat ice cream - it seems to them that it is easier to endure the heat this way. In fact, this is just a path to inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis and dysbacteriosis. Especially if the ice cream was preceded by a hearty breakfast or lunch.
Even in ancient times, healers noticed that the combination of hot and cold food causes discomfort, pain, unhealthy state in people. They called it the quenching of the fire of digestion. And at the time of Genghis Khan, a sharp contrast of hot and cold food was used as the death penalty. The criminal was given hot mutton broth, after which he was forced to drink a large amount of almost icy water. For a short time, the person died from terrible abdominal pains.
