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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