Drinking ICE water burns 200 Calories!

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  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    No, just NO!! Read this: http://www.uamshealth.com/?id=12246&sid=1

    It burns 7 calories. Maybe.

    Team Beachbody doesn't have to obey those pesky laws of physics. Duh.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    This is not true!

    The maths works. Unfortunately, it doesn't in practice.

    A body, even at rest, is constantly generating heat. The energy used to heat the water would have been lost by the body in other ways if the water hadn't been consumed.

    The only way that it would increase calorie expenditure is if the combined temperature increase of the volume of water was enough to consume all of the heat that the body is losing plus a bit more. You then burn the "bit more" calories as a bonus.

    Hi there and welcome to MFP. I think you'll find that the search feature here doesn't take recency into account when ordering search results. It's usually a good idea to double-check the time stamp in the top right hand corner of a post before bumping a topic from 2010.
  • HazelMcNutty
    HazelMcNutty Posts: 85 Member
    Good thing I can't stand room temperature water. I ONLY drink ice cold. For some reason I think water is gross when it isn't cold.

    I totally agree! I thought I was odd one though b/c everyone in my office prefers room temperature/cool water. They never use the blue handle side of the water cooler here but I'm wearing it out! Going to get my 3rd Sigg (0.6L) refill of the morning. My bottle still has icy cold condensation on it from the last fill up.

    Happy drinking! ;)

    I don't mind it warm or cold but I find it tastes way better when it comes out of a can. (That's really weird, I know) Not that I buy canned water, I'm not even sure that's a thing. But I used to work on a farm and would always forget to bring my water bottle but usually always had a pepsi for lunch.. After it was empty I would fill it with water and it always tasted WAY better, and I would rinse out all the pop first, so it's got nothing to do with what was in the can before.. :laugh:
  • TheKingsChampion
    TheKingsChampion Posts: 120
    I must burn a lot then since I drink 2-4Litres of iced water a day. Lol :wink:
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    8 * 8 ozs * 38C * 28g/oz * 0.001 kcal/g = 68 kcals. Would need actual ice to get to 200.
  • cw106
    cw106 Posts: 952 Member
    Let's just put it this way...if someone were of the mind to log 200 cals for drinking ice water, I can't imagine what other fairy tales would lie in wait in their food diary.
    true, but added up over the 4Years since this thread was started,would add up too

    nope. your right. totally irrelevant
  • philwrightfitness
    philwrightfitness Posts: 122
    True but not quite accurate , if the water was 3 degrees then this would equate to about on ly 15 calories per glass
    16 0z is 473 grams the energy required to raise 473 Grammes of water by 1 degree is 473 calories so to raise it from 3 degrees to 35 degrees is 15136 calories or 15 Calories in food terms
    however scientific research indicates that this is in reality nearer 8 calories per glass....or 64 calories for 8 16 oz glasses
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  • philwrightfitness
    philwrightfitness Posts: 122
    Actually tap water is 7 degrees in winter and up to 20 degrees in summer three one cm cubes if completely melted it would only lower the temperature of the drink to 6.5 degrees so just drink the damn water whatever temperature it is!!! And stop reprinting this flawed rubbish .... People believe it!!
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