Nutrition
Does The Temperature Of Your Drink Affect Calories That You Burn?
Every month we ask our panel of experts their opinion on what’s hot in health and fitness. This month we ask: does the temperature of your drink affect calories that you burn?
Brooke Erickson
Even if it did, it’d be so minimal that it’s not worth the hassle.
Taylor Chamberlain
When the temperature of your drink is colder, it burns such an insignificant amount of calories that it really won’t make that big of a difference – go ahead and drink the hot tea.
Noel Arevalo
Our body burns calories in many ways when you factor in our basal metabolic rate. The temperature of our drink is so extremely minimal.
Yami Mufdi
Not enough to be worth mentioning. Studies show that by drinking cold water rather than warm water, your body will burn eight extra calories. Not enough to cause a dent
in your calorie burn.
Emily Duncan
Technically speaking, a calorie is a unit of energy that measures how much heat is required to raise a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. Therefore, you could theorize that drinking cold beverages would elicit a greater calorie burn than drinking room temperature ones due to extra energy needed to heat the fluid in your body.
While this does happen, it’s at a very acute degree. Drinking cold water as opposed to room temperature in an effort to burn more calories would be akin to tracking the macros in things like black pepper or cinnamon – it’s such a minute detail.
Lacey Dunn
This seems a silly thing to focus on in my opinion. The effect would be so minuscule that it would not cause any clinically significant effect. Instead of focusing on temperature of your drink, focus on total calories eaten during the day.
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