Hot food and drinks cause our bodies to heat up and sweat. Sweating is our body's best (and only) way of cooling off. So when hot foods cause us to sweat more, we're able to cool down more quickly. However, if your body isn't able to sweat normally, hot foowill only heat you up.
Wow, I never thought about hot soup cooling you down. Sadly and unfortunately,
it doesn’t work as well in humid conditions. But if it helps some, that’s a benefit in the sweltering summer weather in the southern U.S.
“I know it sounds counter intuitive. But there’s actual science to back it up. Professor Ollie Jay, a researcher from the University of Sydney, has delved into the science of hot liquids and their effects on our bodies in hot weather.
His
research shows that hot liquids like hot tea or soup activate a temperature control within the body that triggers sweat, and that helps cool the body down.
It
is important to note that the sweat the body produces needs to evaporate, so this doesn't work as well in humid conditions. That's less of an issue in Los Angeles, a region known for its dry heat.”
When we’re hot, we naturally cool our bodies primarily by sweating, or more specifically by having the sweat evaporate from our skin (that’s important!). Our bodies sense changes in tissue temperature by a network of thermosensors located in the skin and in more central parts of our body, which send input to our brain (specifically, the hypothalamus), which then initiates sweating.
When we take in a hot drink, it appears that the thermosensors located in the stomach become overactive, and send strong signals to our hypothalamus that we are hot. In turn, the hypothalamus reacts by initiating an over-compensatory sweating response. So, when this sweat evaporates from our skin, the heat energy we lose due to evaporation exceeds the heat energy gained by drinking the hot drink. In other words, it is because our body overacted to the hot drink that we end up cooler in the end
Ddiscover the surprising science behind consuming hot soups in hot weather — and the best places to get slurping in and around L.A.
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Under conditions permitting full sweat evaporation, body heat storage is lower with warm water ingestion, likely because of disproportionate modulations in sweat output arising from warm-sensitive thermosensors in the esophagus/stomach. Local temperature changes of the rectum following fluid...
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Lean in to eating hot foods this summer.
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Spicy foods can also cool you down!
Certain foods have been scientifically shown to they can help you achieve a little bit of relief from the soaring temperatures.
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And she did bring a bottle of wine once but failed to bring a way to open it.