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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.
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