Drinking cold beverages with meals bad for weight loss?

I've heard varying theories/opinions about this, but nothing conclusive. This morning in the shower I was listening to NPR, a doctor was talking about the effects of overeating and at the end she said:

"If you drink lots of icy beverages with your food, the mixed messages to your body only worsen, she says. "When you drink cold liquids, your stomach will start contracting and it will massage the food that will again quickly leave stomach to the rest of the gastrointestinal track."

This means your stomach will be empty sooner than normal, and you will be hungrier sooner."

Interesting. Here's the whole article.

I thought that this was interesting and I decided to look more into it and this is what i found:

"Drinking cold beverages actually burns a few calories. The body uses heat to warm up cold beverages, equaling about 1 calorie per ounce. You might be able to burn 64 ounces a day simply by drinking 8 cups of ice cold water. That can give you a few calories for a treat, like a piece of chocolate."

[http://longevity.about.com/od/healthyeatingti ps/qt/tips_iceddrink.htm]

and...

"Supposedly, when you have an ice-cold drink with a meal, it can actually numb your stomach enough that it may delay the satiety signal, causing you to eat more than you would if you were drinking a room-temp or hot beverage."

[http://exercisethedemons.wordpress.com/2008/0 8/20/eating-or-drinking-cold-foods-or-beverag es/]

I know that from my personal experience I like water better when there is no ice and even some sodas. They say you drink more when it is roo temperature as well. Also, in the second article she claims that waiting for refridgerated foods such as salads to warm to room temperature allows more flavor.

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How much is 'lots of icy beverages'? I doubt that this claim of colder drinks would make you eat so much that you would become overweight as a result.

Wouldn't your stomach contracting from the cold drinks make you get full faster so you actually eat less?

Or maybe since everybody and their cousin are starting new years resolutions, media outlets are putting on any wackjob with an opinion about stuff that won't make a noticable difference either way.

well, there are two conflicting articles, but I do know that a diet doctor told me to drink warm drinks not cold. I lost a lot of weight but who knows if the luke warm drinks Ie; 70 degrees helped.

If you sip a glass of cold water with your meal each sip will be body-temperature by the time it hits your stomach.   Millions of slim people do it every day.  

Original Post by floggingsully:

Wouldn't your stomach contracting from the cold drinks make you get full faster so you actually eat less?

Or maybe since everybody and their cousin are starting new years resolutions, media outlets are putting on any wackjob with an opinion about stuff that won't make a noticable difference either way.

"Dr. Sasha Stiles, a family physician who specializes in obesity at Tufts Medical Center" = 'any wackjob'

I personally feel cold or hot beverages do not hinder in weightloss, unless you drink a lot of high-calorie stuff..

I caught this story this morning and was wondering about the credentials of the people quoted in the story.  It's unbelievable how many physicians just spout off "facts" they have learned somewhere, and have no idea what kind of research may or may not be behind them.

I'd like to see the research backing up the claims in the story.  Also, I'm a little concerned that they didn't define "overeating."  One person's regular meal is another person's overeating.  If there is research, then believe me, there is quantitative information about how many ounces, etc., constitutes "overeating."  Interesting that it wasn't defined in the text.

If you're really interested to know about the cold beverage thing, I think you've got to try it both ways over a period of time, keep track, and see if your results indicate anything.  I always eat the same thing for breakfast, so it would be easy for me to do that.  Personally, I doubt the temperature of the beverage has anything to do with anything.

I looked up Dr. Sasha Stiles - not at length, but a quick look at things indicates she's one of the pushers of bariatric surgery.  My own personal opinion about the surgery is that it's probably a lifesaving procedure for some, but is being over-hyped, and has a lot of dangers that the patient may not be aware of, and is being used on way too many people.  I'd be more impressed with Dr. Styles if she'd publish a plan for me to use her so-called facts in my daily life, rather than be someone who'd just love to get me and my checkbook into her clinic.
 

Original Post by gi-jane:

If you sip a glass of cold water with your meal each sip will be body-temperature by the time it hits your stomach.   Millions of slim people do it every day.  

No, only overweight people drink cold beverages :/

I swear, some of this "research" that comes out just makes me scratch my head

Original Post by gi-jane:

If you sip a glass of cold water with your meal each sip will be body-temperature by the time it hits your stomach.   Millions of slim people do it every day.  

 Millions of over weight people do it every day too. 

Drinking cold water might make your stomach empty a little faster, and/or it might make you burn more calories because your body has to heat up the water.  Reguardless, the difference the temperature of the water your drink makes is going to be so small nobody is every going to notice a difference.

There are tons of 'tips' that get thrown around in the media, drink cold water, don't drink cold water, do cardio on an empty stomach, eat spicy food, bla bla bla.  Will any of these increase your calorie burn? probably.  By how much? maybe a couple extra calories a day, not enough to make any sort of noticable impact.