Does Drinking Cold Water After Meals Cause Cancer? | Snopes.com --> --> Snopes Now available in the app store! Open Log in to activate your ad-free access. It looks like you might have a Snopes membership! Log in to enjoy your ad-free experience. Log In From Snopes You're browsing with fewer ads for the next 24 hours, thanks to our sponsor . Learn more → --> --> Fact Check Does Drinking Cold Water After Meals Cause Cancer? Drinking ice water after meals or at bedtime supposedly causes a host of nasty health issues. Does it really? Barbara Mikkelson Published Aug. 22, 2006 Image courtesy of Dmytro Flisak / Shutterstock.com Claim: Drinking cold water after meals causes unpleasant and lasting side effects. Rating: False About this rating Admonitions against the ingestion of cold beverages immediately following meals first surfaced on the Internet in February 2006, when they first appeared as an item tagged onto a diatribe against the eating of too much rice: Drinking Cold water after meal = Cancer! For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacted with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. DRINK HOTWATER AFTER MEAL DEAR ALL , This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water after your meal, but about heart attacks. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating. For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consum