Do Ice Cream And Cold Drinks Cool Us Down?
Don’t you just love how cold drinks and food cool you off during hot summer days? Whether it’s a glass of cold water or your favorite ice cream, we all use them to cool ourselves off a bit. But do cold drinks & ice cream really affect body temperature?
To understand whether that is true or not, we need to know a bit more about how our bodies control temperatures when exposed to different environments. The delicate balance between production and loss of heat is done through a process of thermoregulation.
As far as science is concerned, humans are endotherms, meaning, we are warm-blooded creatures who possess the ability to control their temperature regardless of the environment we are in. The reason we can do this is the body’s metabolism - a sequence of internal chemical processes that constantly produce heat.