I had kept my metal bottle in the car which was parked in sunlight for long hours. I got into the car and I was parched so I drank that warm ass water and it didn’t feel good and it took me 7-8 big sips to actually feel like i drank any water.
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Okay, everyone in the comments, repeat after me:
Drinking cold water is not a sustainable or efficient way to cool your body down.
Cold water doesn’t make you sweat, which is the long term cool down system run by our bodies. You sweat from hot, not cold. Your blood vessels expand from hot, not cold. If you want to cool down, (without applying a temperature to your skin), you drink warm liquids.
That’s why people drinking alcohol die easier in winter – blood vessels open -> body cools down too much.
That’s why when you’re sick, you stay covered and drink hot drinks, to sweat it out.
Hot=sweating=body cooling down.
Now to answer OP’ question:
It’s cultural. Depends where you were raised. You were cold drinks for the majority of your life, that’s what you’re used to. The more east you go, the more common is drinking room temp/warm liquids for hydration. We can chug a bottle of luke warm water, and it gives us the same relief and hydration, as if tou chug a bottle of cold water.
If it was safety thing, y’all would also drink hot drinks only. That was most cultures’ way to make sure they wouldn’t die from drinking random water. Make water hot – kill everything in it.
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