As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.
For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg.F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized.
Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories. Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.
This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12, 240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.
Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.
Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.
We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.
Happy eating!
Posted by: Dr. Pain
Very Funny!
DP
Posted by: Freeman
hahaha! That was a GREAT post. Funny as all getout. But, no thanks. I'll stick to frozen yogurt and only once in a while!
Posted by: EarWax
I would like to now introduce you to the air conditioning diet... just turn your AC down and volia... it just burns the calories away...
Posted by: kuso
I guess I could use the same principle with my vodka....I keep it in the freezer
Posted by: KataMaStEr
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Originally posted by kuso
I guess I could use the same principle with my vodka....I keep it in the freezer
Damn Kuso whats up with you and vodka
Posted by: kuso
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Originally posted by KataMaStEr
Damn Kuso whats up with you and vodka
I strickly use it for carbing up purposes ONLY
Posted by: arbntmare
very interesting.. and i thought i had to quit drinking to lose bf..
Posted by: NickB
with all the ice i eat and cold water i drink, id be lookin' like mmafiter if this were true
Posted by: coleman
sorry to burst your bubble sub-zero, but it takes 1 joule of energy and not 1 calorie to heat up 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. as there are 4200 joules in a calorie, you would lose 6216 joules compared with the 5040000 you took in (1200 caloires X 4200 joules). unlucky.
Posted by: twarrior
Yea but a nice shot of Grey Goose Vodka in a Mike's Hard Lemonade will certainly make you think you're burning calories!!!
