☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoA Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Downwww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down17
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minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoSo a cool drink would work just as well, since it’s also providing water you can sweat out? So it’s a matter of hydration?
minus-squaresnek_boi@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI haven’t read the article, but I think the difference in temperature matters. Hot beverages perceived as hot through your tongue will make you sweat more/faster than cold beverages.
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoYeah, this. Hot drinks make you sweat from feeling hotter internally, which will cool you off if it’s not humid where you are.
minus-squareRevan343@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI would think an ice cold spicy drink would be most effective
So a cool drink would work just as well, since it’s also providing water you can sweat out?
So it’s a matter of hydration?
I haven’t read the article, but I think the difference in temperature matters. Hot beverages perceived as hot through your tongue will make you sweat more/faster than cold beverages.
Yeah, this. Hot drinks make you sweat from feeling hotter internally, which will cool you off if it’s not humid where you are.
I would think an ice cold spicy drink would be most effective
Hmm, say a bloody Mary? 😆
Ah, thanks, I didn’t catch that part.