Women are more likely to experience the sort of symptoms you describe than men.

Most people think of heart attacks as a “male” problem. Heart Disease is actually the number one cause of deaths in women as well.

Women are less likely to call the emergency services. - Whether this is due to the less typical symtoms, their pain threshold, their “it will soon go away I’ve got things to do” attitude or the failure of the health awarenes campaigns to make them aware of the risk is uncertain.

One thing is certain - if you get treatment within an hour of the onset of a heart attack your chances of survival are massively increased.

Drinking cold water or beverages during or after meals will not cause foods to harden into sludge that turns into fat that leads to cancer.

Athletes are interested in beverage temperatures because if the temperature influences absorption, it could be helpful; anything that could speed fluids into the body could help an athlete stay hydrated.

Researcher Xiaocai Shi, an expert in athlete hydration, studied the effect of drinking cold beverages by putting tubes down the stomachs of volunteers and measuring temperature changes. He found that when people drink cold beverages, there is a small, transient drop in temperature in the stomach, but within 5 minutes the beverages are warmed to stomach temperature. His conclusion is that cold beverages have very little, if any, effect on stomach emptying of fluids.

So feel free to enjoy a cold or warm beverage, whether you are an athlete or a coach potato.

If you want to reduce your risk of cancer, focus on eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains — and don’t worry about beverage temperature.

Cold beverage FTW