Beer and Ice Cream Diet

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If only....... :drinker:

Beer and Ice Cream Diet

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!

School of Physics, University of Sydney

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  • _Ben
    _Ben Posts: 1,608 Member
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    Found this on stumble upon before, very funny
  • JennsLosing
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    OOOO i know what im having for dinner tonight lol! i have heard that eating spicey foods burns more...im not sure how true that is though
  • ShannonTodd
    ShannonTodd Posts: 105 Member
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    That makes me feel not so guilty about our family's Friday night rituals: pizza (and beer for hubby and me) and movies. Need to add ice cream though!! (My two boys will love that!)
  • CharlieOverby
    CharlieOverby Posts: 82 Member
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    I'll drink to that!:drinker:
  • Mcctin65
    Mcctin65 Posts: 507 Member
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    Perfect! I've been dying for some Pumpkin Ice Cream!!
  • nestofhope
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    that is a scream! for me though, i could only have the beer (no wheat, no dairy, no tomatoes!), so i guess I will chill it and hope for the same effect eating it outdoors up north this weekend!!! :)
  • kathy0317
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    that is a scream! for me though, i could only have the beer (no wheat, no dairy, no tomatoes!), so i guess I will chill it and hope for the same effect eating it outdoors up north this weekend!!! :)

    you'd need gelato or sorbet and gluten-free beer, lol And it's supposed to be cold this weekend so that will help :o
  • spicypepper
    spicypepper Posts: 1,016 Member
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    OOOO i know what im having for dinner tonight lol! i have heard that eating spicey foods burns more...im not sure how true that is though

    I've heard the same thing, so I try to eat spicy as often as I can. That is when I can... (I can't handle too much spicy)