Do you drink water warm?

[LongLiveTheKing]

Room temperature is the best.

[lucky001]

the more you cool or heat substances, the more work your body has to do bringing it to the mean body temp... and therefore the more system shock and system energy expended.

I read that this is a good thing though. You can lose 5 lbs a year by drinking cold water just by the extra energy your body has to exert to warm it up.

Either way the benefit/drawback is pretty marginal.

[RagaZ]

More bacteria in warm water

QFT.

[Rameek]

[COLOR="DarkGreen"]I prefer room temperature water as far as a thirst quencher.

I will drink cold water too cool down but will drink room temperature after the cool down.[/COLOR]

[gigantes]

I read that this is a good thing though. You can lose 5 lbs a year by drinking cold water just by the extra energy your body has to exert to warm it up.

well that's fully consistent with what i've read. i.e., the principle can be used in different ways.

Either way the benefit/drawback is pretty marginal.

it's marginal, but just going by my experience, it IS a stressor. for example when i'm in an air conditioned restaurant drinking the ice water they typically bring, it can sometimes be quiet unpleasant. i almost have to battle my body to get it down to quench my thirst, and one thing i've learned is that noticing what the body and mind are feeling is a really good principle for maintaining health.

[HardwoodLegend]

it's marginal, but just going by my experience, it IS a stressor. for example when i'm in an air conditioned restaurant drinking the ice water they typically bring, it can sometimes be quiet unpleasant. i almost have to battle my body to get it down to quench my thirst, and one thing i've learned is that noticing what the body and mind are feeling is a really good principle for maintaining health.

I get water with no ice in air-conditioned restaurants. Sometimes it's still pretty cold without the ice, but it helps.

Cold water is great for hot days and warm tea is good for cold days though to normalize body temp. That refreshment feeling is a sign that it's doing your body good.

[tmacattack33]

I'll take water cold when I can...but if it's room temperature i'll stilll have it.

It hardly matters to me.

[gigantes]

i gotcher water right here, baby.

[Nanners]

theres nothing as refreshing as ice cold water.... i question the sanity and dental hygene of all these jabronies who prefer room temperature.

[KyrieTheFuture]

More bacteria in warm water

Are you implying that tap water bacteria levels are affected by how you turn the handle on your faucet?

[fsvr54]

Definitely drink room temp water, straight out of the kitchen sink faucet. i don't like my drinks cold in general.

[Bosnian Sajo]

Definitely drink room temp water, straight out of the kitchen sink faucet. i don't like my drinks cold in general.

That's weird, you drink warm soda?

[senelcoolidge]

I prefer cold, but when I'm in Southeast Asia I drink it at room temperature, because I have no choice. There is not air conditioning or fridges up in the mountains.

[n00bie]

All my life until recently I absolutely had to have drinking water cold, to the point where if I was very thirsty and there was no cold water or ice handy, I'd wait for the water to chill in the fridge or ice to freeze. Why are people so programmed? Now it doesn't even matter. I'll guzzle a pitcher with my supper.

Do I prefer cold water? Of course, but it's not that big of a deal.

I think that's a symptom of diabetes...

[ArbitraryWater]

before seing this I suspected gigantes (or CavsFTW) bumping it