Is it true?
 

Is it true that you should drink a hot beverage after your meals to break down your food????

i've bever even heard this...

I have never heard this either.

That's definitely a new one for me as well...

LOL! Wow..really!?!?

whoa..never heard of that!

Never heard of it - and probably not.

Never heard that one. Or are you talking about green tea?

http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20080...ff-weight-gain

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i guess it's another one of those 'diet myths' lol!

LOL..wow if this many of you ladies haven't heard of this then I'm with MissyRxOx...Must be a myth

Yeah, I haven't heard of this either. I have only heard about drinking ice cold water to burn calories "faster." I am not sure how the temperature of a beverage could aid in digestion.

I read it once in a diet book...
What they say is that when you drink something hot/warm with or after food it helps to digest it the fat.
If you drink something cold the liquid make the fat hard -try put a cold water in some fat- and make the digestion take more time to occur, while if you drink something warm it helps keeping the fat melted.
According to this book ( I don’t remember which one - sorry) that is why asian people drink hot tea with meals.
Now, if you ask me if it is true, that I don’t know... ;)

These little 'short cut' tricks aren't going to help in the long run anyways :)

Melted fat and solid fat still have the same amount of calories for digestion - you're just talking lard vs. oil.

They say the cold water trick works because your body has to work hard to "warm itself up" after you drink ice water, but its a myth.

I'm part Chinese and we drink tea just because... and it is astringent and a palette cleanser of sorts between courses when it is one of those fancy dinners. :)

Water and tea in reasonable amounts aren't going to hurt anything, but neither do they have super powers. I'm with the myth camp.

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