Beer & Ice Cream Diet

jamie1888 · November 2011

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

(This is a thermal physics JOKE... But, an awesome theory! If only!! :drinker: )

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1H1cSX/astro.berkeley.edu/~gmarcy/thermal/tpteacher/jokes/icecream.html

kitinboots · November 2011

Haha I like this

Not sure I'd risk trying it....

chanstriste13 · November 2011

smirk...! thanks for the chuckles!

Mariposa187 · November 2011

if only... if only...

Matttdvg · November 2011

As a bit of a science nerd, this did make me laugh. The theory is sound, except for one thing. There are two different definitions of calories. It does take 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade, but that is what is known as a small calorie or gram calorie. When we talk about calories in the dietary sense, we refer to the large calorie, or the kilogram calorie. There are 1000 gram calories in one kilogram calorie. So, in the dietary sense, 0.001 calories heats 1 gram of water by 1 degree. Which is a lot smaller. So to raise 1 gram of desert at 0 degrees to body temperature will take 0.037 dietary calories. So a 6 oz (or 168 gram) desert will take about 6.2 calories to raise to body temperature.

maceycarey · November 2011

thats one diet fad im up for lol

rb16fitness · November 2011

that reminds me big bang theory is about to start

tidmutt · November 2011

This reminds me of a question on a science test in high school where I had to calculate how much cold water a person had to drink to offset the calorie intake of one chocolate eclair. Of course, it was a lot.