In the hot summer, we are so used to drink icy cold water or eat ice cream. What will happen if we intake them often in a long run? Please share your answer. Thanks.😊👍
In general, hot makes things soften and cold makes things harder. Heat expands and cold congeals.
Let's from top to down to discuss long term intake icy water could happen to our bodies.
Like a soft tube, in the hot weather or under the sun, it becomes softened. If in the winter or under snowing, it becomes hardened.
In the long run, icy cold water can harden our esophagus that makes hard to swallow after getting older.
Ice cold water can cause extra heat in the stomach that rotten foods quicker as a slow cooker. So, people eat a lot and always feel hungry.
Usually, we treat overeat for obesity is to sedate his/her stomach heat. So, his/her appetite, reduced.
Ice cold water and ice cream intake often can cause more blockage of the heart blood vessels. It's due to the heart locates so nearby the esophagus.
The coldness makes the blood vessels congeal, blood moves slower and caused more blockage. Cold congeals and makes things "do not move". It's not the cholesterol blocks the blood vessels.
The coldness of the ice water transfer coldness to the heart. Meanwhile, the heart valve due to cold and lost its flexibility to close well.
The coldness makes throat organism becomes harder and lost its elasticity. If drink ice cold water long term, it easily causes choking due to when food entering the esophagus, the epiglottis closes off the passage to the windpipe becomes too slow.
The aorta is nearby esophagus. When icy cold water or ice chips enters the esophagus, it likes winter time, the vaporized water encountered icy cold, it is frozen to be water drop or ice. Moreover, it combined with the other flowing substances in the blood vessel wall, prolonged, it splits blood vessel walls leads the aorta aneurysm.
It’s the same with the abdominal blood vessels aneurysm patients who are icy cold foods/drinks lovers. When the flowing substances inside abdominal blood vessel walls encountered coldness, they start condensing and freezing, prolonged, becomes an aneurysm.
If cold foods/drinks transfer coldness through the esophagus to lungs, the vaporized substances such as nutrition, moisture, etc, that will be delivered to the skin to nourish and moisturize skin encountered coldness will be condensed and become phlegm. When phlegm accumulated too much, will cough to try to expel the phlegm out of the lungs and body.
When we eat or drink, our stomachs produce enzymes needed for digestion that can only survive in a limited temperature range in the body. When cold food or drink is ingested, our bodies have to counteract the temperature difference in order to preserve a suitable environment for these enzymes in the stomach for our digestion to function well. However, when cold food and/or beverages enter the esophagus, it encounters the warm vaporized fluid in the lungs. The result is phlegm formed in the lungs which lowers lung function and capacity. Prolonged ingestion of cold food and drink can cause coughs, susceptibility to the flu or other illnesses, dry skin and numerous other symptoms. Moreover, the phlegm blocks the free flow of energy up and down the body which can impair the affected person’s ability to maintain a normal temperature.
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