Does Drinking Warm Water Cause Heart Attack?
This is just a hoax and has no foundation in logic. The only reasons for heart attacks are
- Narrowing of the arteries due to plague deposit
- Weak heart muscles
- Acute dehydration causing the blood to become thick
- Heart starved for oxygen
Drinking warm water does nothing to the heart. Its like saying drinking cold water can cause cancer. Warm water is better than drinking cold water as it does not upset the stomach temperature or shock it. In fact more practioners of natural hygiene stay away from eating cold food for this very reason.
How does heart attack take place?
Arteries can get narrowed down through plague deposits. The usual causes of plague are smoking, eating high fat foods and excess cholesterol in the blood stream due to improper functioning of liver.
Heart pumps bloods to various parts of the body using arteries as the pipeline. Narrowed down arteries will cause the heart to push blood with higher pressure. The heart weakens through such effort. Sometimes an artery can get completely clogged leading to a huge hike in blood pressure leading to a stroke or heart attack.
It is also possible to experience a heart attack when the oxygen supply to heart is thwarted. Several people who get trapped in smoke filled rooms have been known to die of heart attack. Smoking cigarettes excessively can also lead to increase of carbon dioxide in the blood, exhausting the heart as it is depraved of oxygen.
Water regulates the temperature of the body and helps the heart
The rate at which heart pumps blood increases the temperature of a human body. The only way to cool it is through the use of water circulation. It does not matter if the water is warm or cold but its true that cold water can do some harm as it shocks the stomach for a moment and disturbs the temperature equilibrium.
Water is removed from the body through perspiration. It stays on the surface of the skin and cools the body temperature. If the body temperature were allowed to fluctuate even by a few degrees it can have fatal consequences.
People who are dehydrated in deserts usually end up dying of heart attack as the blood becomes too thick to pump.