What does it mean to drink to keep warm in cold weather?

When the weather turns cold, many people will choose to drink to keep warm. But in fact, drinking to keep warm in cold weather is not a real way to keep warm. Because alcohol will bring a certain amount of somatosensory heat into the human body and make people feel warm, it actually achieves this effect by dilating blood vessels and promoting blood circulation. This temporary feeling is not very good for the body, and may even have a bad influence on the body.

Alcohol will not only bring temporary heat, but also do harm to the body. Long-term excessive drinking will reduce human immunity and easily get colds and other diseases; At the same time, it will also harm the liver, kidneys and other important organs of the human body, causing a variety of diseases and even life-threatening. Therefore, it is not recommended to warm up by drinking when it is cold, especially not to drink too much.

After correctly understanding the essence of this phenomenon, we should adopt more scientific methods to keep warm, such as appropriately increasing the exposed parts of clothes, drinking more hot water, hot soup or hot tea to replenish water, and carrying out moderate physical exercise to enhance physical fitness. This can not only keep warm effectively, but also be beneficial to health. Therefore, it is suggested that everyone spend the cold winter in a warm environment, wear appropriate clothes to keep warm and exercise to strengthen their physique.