Why chinese people drink warm water?!


Question:

Why chinese people drink warm water?


Answers:
Drinking warm water:
1) flushes out the kidneys
2) prepares the stomach for food by stimulating the glands on its walls
3) helps the bowels move regularly and naturally

its called tea

Why not?

People do beer warm too.

I drink warm water. I'm not Chinese. Cold water is just too much of a shock to the system.

It's good for you, apparently. It's an alternative medicine thing.

hi. its normally drunk to help digest food. thats why most of them are so slim as warm water flushes down oil.

It helps to digest food better and gives better bowel movement. It also washes out all the oil that you have consumed.

The real reason is to insure that the water was first boiled to kill off bacterii in water born illness.
Also, the chinese herbalists believe that food and drinks consumed warm are more gentle to the stomach and minimize stomach ailments. It's the yin yang balance thing, especially for breakfast.
Why water ? It's the most basic, healthy and economical.
All others like tea, coffee, beer and wine are contraversial in benefits and supposed to be taken in moderation only.

In my point of view, i believe the reason why Chinese drink warm water is because china is a country with lots of floods and storms.... since Chinese people are very aware of their health so they boil water to kill all the bacteria and germs that can be caused by the floods.
Also, Many years back, bottled water wasn't very common in the villages of china... they mainly demand from the under ground water and boiling water is very important for them to protect themselves from diseases such as diarrhea etc.
finally, Chinese people carried this habit from generation to another and automatically it started to be part of their life style :O)

It's better for you than beer.
Tastes better, too.

i drink warm water, when am cold.
i don't drink water with too much ice, with it. I'll get sore throat.
i drink water cool or room temperature, part of culture and then maybe grew up with no freezing appliances, got used and happy with just CLEAN, PURE WATER!

we should have known, the oldest civilization still exist, and won't go away. . .




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