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MsMa
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Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about ladies and their heart attacks. A friend sent this to me. She asked that I share with both my male/female friends. Very interesting... This makes sense.... the Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals...not cold water... maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain... For those who like to drink cold water,this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal.
However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. A serious note about heart attacks: Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could save your life!!
In case it is the truth I thought I would share!
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Posted 10/3/06 2:07 PM |
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
It's on snopes as false link The proffered bit of advice about eschewing cold drinks after a meal is claptrap. We were unable to find in reputable medical literature mention of frosty beverages causing cancer. Also, chilled liquids do not solidify ingested fats when the two meet in the stomach: the internal heat of the human body quickly nullifies any temperature differences among the various items that have been swallowed, and stomach acids very efficiently break down lumps of ingestibles before they are passed into the intestines.
As for oils reacting with stomach acids to form a resultant sludge that is subsequently absorbed more quickly by the intestine than solid food is, remember that "solid food" doesn't generally get into the intestines. By the time most of what we ingest gets that far along in our digestive process, it's all pretty much the same consistency.
The belief that fats (particularly animal fats) will "line the intestine" underpins a common scare story about alleged post-mortem discoveries that celebrities (such as John Wayne and Elvis Presley) who epitomized the "meat and potatoes" diet, gluttony, or other negative eating habits had some tremendous amount (40, 60, or even 80 pounds) of "impacted fecal matter" or "impacted feces" lodged in their bowels.
The e-mailed advisory against downing cold water after a meal advances a claim that the sludge supposedly formed by the reaction of stomach acids and ingested oils and now said to be adhering to the walls of the intestine will "turn into fats and lead to cancer." That oils (fats) would turn into fats is the least improbable claim made in the e-mail, but it would be better stated that oils (fats) remain fats, rather than change into them. As for such fats "lead[ing] to cancer," a look at the medical literature of the day does not support that allegation. (One genuinely-studied link between fats and cancer has to do with a higher incidence of lung cancer noted in Asian women who over the course of their lives have performed a great deal of wok cooking. The extreme high heat of that form of cookery causes the oils used to break down and give off chemicals capable of causing mutations in cells. Those intent upon doing large amounts of wok cooking should therefore lower their frying temperature from the 240°C to 280°C called for in Chinese cooking to 180°C.)
Over the years, decades, and even centuries, a variety of things have been pointed to as causing cancer. Once, when it was noted that there had been an increase in the consumption of tomatoes and an increase in the number of cancer patients, the erroneous conclusion was drawn from this correlation that tomatoes in some fashion caused or induced cancer. As to how old that belief was or how seriously it was taken at the time it was being bruited about, we note that in 1896 the Yorkshire Weekly Post printed an item by a physician who felt moved to publicly combat the rumor: "Let me say that the eating of tomatoes has nothing whatever to do with the production of the disease [cancer]."
If that now seems laughable, consider that to this day cancer continues to attract a number of misconceptions, and not just about its potential causes. In 2005 the American Cancer Society conducted a telephone survey of 957 adult Americans who had never had cancer, asking each of them about five common fallacies about the disease. Of the participants, nearly 41 percent believed surgeries to remove cancer actually caused the disease to spread, and another 13 percent weren't sure whether that was true or not. 27 percent of those surveyed believed the medical industry was withholding from the public a cure for cancer just to increase profits, and another 14 percent weren't sure but thought they might be. 19 percent believed pain medications were ineffective against cancer pain (with a further 13 percent unsure), and 7 percent thought the disease was an illness that could not be effectively treated. Finally, 5 percent of those taking part in the survey believed that all that was needed to beat the Big C was a positive attitude.
As for the act of drinking water immediately after eating something being bad for you, those claims have also been kicking about for a bit, as evidenced by this entry from a book of common misconceptions published in 1923:
Message edited 10/3/2006 2:10:25 PM.
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Posted 10/3/06 2:09 PM |
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MrChristian
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
Snopes says the cold water thing is false....
http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/coldwater.asp
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Posted 10/3/06 2:10 PM |
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MrChristian
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Name: Christian
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
Beat me to it. d= )
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Posted 10/3/06 2:10 PM |
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MsMa
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Name: Meri
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
Sorry Peeps!
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Posted 10/3/06 2:12 PM |
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Blu-ize
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
I was going to say that it was BS. Glad we all can investigate.
I'm a cold water junkie.
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Posted 10/3/06 2:17 PM |
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skip123
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
The cardiac awareness signs you posted were a good thing to make women aware of..womens symptoms of a heart attack or cardiac events are known to be different than the textbook mens symptoms of pain down the arm and chest pain..womens cardiac issues go largely underdiagnosed because of this, and what you posted is right.. pain in the jaw is one symptom a woman might get...
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Posted 10/3/06 2:21 PM |
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Blu-ize
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
Posted by skip123
The cardiac awareness signs you posted were a good thing to make women aware of..womens symptoms of a heart attack or cardiac events are known to be different than the textbook mens symptoms of pain down the arm and chest pain..womens cardiac issues go largely underdiagnosed because of this, and what you posted is right.. pain in the jaw is one symptom a woman might get...
agreed, mom had a heart attack and she was nauseous, sweating and her heart was racing. Never had the arm pain or chest pain.
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Posted 10/3/06 2:28 PM |
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SweetTooth
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Name: Lauren
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Re: Drinking Cold Water After Each Meal
Posted by skip123
The cardiac awareness signs you posted were a good thing to make women aware of..womens symptoms of a heart attack or cardiac events are known to be different than the textbook mens symptoms of pain down the arm and chest pain..womens cardiac issues go largely underdiagnosed because of this, and what you posted is right.. pain in the jaw is one symptom a woman might get...
Yes, I was going to say that I agreed with this part, but not the cold water part. Women can present very different from men when it comes to heart attacks - she might feel the classic pain in the jaw or left arm or heaviness in the chest, but could also have stomach or back pain.
I was going to say about the cold water part - that doesn't make any sense because once it (or anything) gets into your stomach and blood stream its the same temperature as the inside of your body.
Who comes up with this garbage?
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Posted 10/3/06 2:59 PM |
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