Drink Your Drinks Warm

Drinking cold water is quite satisfying, sometimes. You will be surprised that a sweet drink tend to taste less sweet when it's cold. You will also notice this when you take chocolate. Once it starts to melt, you will find it tastes sweeter than before.

According to some "interesting" reports on the internet, drinking cold or icy water is bad for health, especially after meal. I'm not sure if this is a fact or just old folks tales. It was said that the coldness will cause the oily stuff you ate to solidify and it becomes unwanted fats. There are also reports saying that this is a myth and total bullsxxt.

If you are a person who thinks very much on work, you will tend to have your breakfast or coffeee breaks at your desk. Your cup of coffee or tea will most likely sit on your desk waiting for you to drink it. It is definitely no fun drinking beverages that has become cold. You can see the layer of diluted milk slowing dispersing in the beverage.

I believe you must have heard your parents advising you to drink warm water at all times. Then you will retaliate saying "how can it be possible while I'm working and my office is cold"? Anyway, my advice is, listen to their advice.

Do You Feel Cold In Office?

Since Malaysia is a temperate country, most of us cannot do without an air-conditioner. Almost all offices are equipped with air-cond. If it is a centralized system, where there are air-cond outlet place at certain distance from each other, the office tends to become very cold and to make it worse, there is no way to adjust the temperature at each individual outlet. Either you make you own diversion plate, or make do with the current condition.

In an article in fastcompany.com, there was an interesting findings from Cornell University research that employees of an insurance company committed 44% more errors when the room temperature was reduced to 20 deg Celsius from 25 deg Celsius. This goes to show that we need to pay attention to the workplace temperature if we want to achieve higher productivity because when we are hit by coldness, we tend to do things more slowly (based on personal experience).

When the surrounding is cold, the parts that are further from the brain such as fingers and toes will become cold. Hence, taking care of the head is important and this can be done by putting on a cap and taking cold.


Apparently, ladies are more prone to coldness and they are more likely to be seen wearing jacket or scarf to keep them warm. In Chinese medicine point of view, it is best that the body is at warmer temperature for health benefit.