Water has calories and its all a scam?

MD1Girl

Besides H2O2 = Hydrogen Peroxide :flowerforyou:

I literally laughed out loud, thanks! :laugh:

holly1283

But its hard not to question things when they come from top fitness addicts plus physiologists!

Here is just some of the comments made by top bodybuilders:

Paul says:
In Physical Chemistry (the course) water is considered to have calories (srs)
I know you seen the title and got so angry, thinking, i dont even want to click this the dumb *****




ONE MAN SAYS :"Distilled water doesn't have calories. The water in your tap most likely does."
OTHER MAN SAYS : Tap water has approximately 120 calories per serving

Bob says :
Couldn't you use electrolysis to break up water into hydrogen and oxygen?

2H20 --> 2H2 + 02?

Wouldn't burning the h2 and o2 heat up the water required to count calories, showing water has calories?
Prove me wrong

What are the lsat 3 words in your thread? PROVE ME WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

rprussell2004

This is fun. Not often I get to get my REAL science geek on! :glasses:

Aperture_Science

I may be getting this wrong but the original post did not state h202 (peroxide), but 2H20 (as in 2 molecules of H20)

was it edited?

Articeluvsmemphis

:huh: :huh: :huh: :huh: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn:

Beth720

I think my favorite part of this is that these "top fitness addicts" (please note the word ADDICT) "plus physiologists" are apparently so famous, we should all know them by their names

Paul
ONE MAN
OTHER MAN
Bob

theoriginaljayne

The concept of calories in Chemistry has a different meaning from calories in food.

Calories in Chemistry is a measure of energy and heat - and anything, water included, that is not at ABSOLUTE ZERO, contains calories.

Calories in FOOD is a measure of how much energy you absorb from the food that's eaten.

(Incidentally, one FOOD calorie is actually 1,000 CHEMISTRY calories. Interesting, eh?)

If anything, if you drink water and it is COLDER than your body temperature, then upon entering your stomach, the water will absorb heat - and energy - from your body. Presumably your body will have to then make up that amount of energy, and you will end up "burning" that many calories as a result.

The idea that water has 'calories' is true - with respect to chemistry and physics - but actual food-type calories that it's going to impart unto your body and get turned into fat? Nah.

QFT

alerica1

Thank God, I really wanted to switch back to beer and now I have a reason. Don't want to get a water gut.

LOVE THIS!

Articeluvsmemphis

perfect explanation

Yanicka1

I have a headache

Skeebee

Thank God, I really wanted to switch back to beer and now I have a reason. Don't want to get a water gut.

WIN

AsellusReborn

This is the difference between calories and kcalories. The former are a unit of measurement in science, the latter in food; it takes 1000 calories to make one kcal/food calorie. If water has 120 calories a serving and you drink 10 glasses of water a day, You are getting the equivalent of 1.2kcal a day - or 1.2 food calories. For the purposes of weight gain/loss? Beyond negligible, lol - mismeasure you food and you'll get way more than 1.2 extra food calories lol.

And that's assumign the figure of 120 calories is correct, which I have no way to know.


ETA: I type too slowly, someone already pointed out the kcal v cal thing. I bow to thee, good sir.

Helloitsdan

Somebody ****ing kill me!!!!!

vade43113

yes water has calories... so does air, and um.... the walls you live in...

owl92

I think my favorite part of this is that these "top fitness addicts" (please note the word ADDICT) "plus physiologists" are apparently so famous, we should all know them by their names

Paul
ONE MAN
OTHER MAN
Bob

i did have their names in front of me when quoting them but decided to simplify it

cordianet

And it's also true that water is the perfect replacement for gasoline! Just fill your tanks with water and burn it instead! Works great, I do it all the time! :laugh:

You know - sugar has even more calories, so wouldn't sugar water be an even BETTER replacement?

Just sayin'...

Oooh! I think you're on to something! I'll go give this a try and report back. I'll bet my gas mileage will increase at least 20%!

neverstray

So, if water has 120 cals, I'm just drinking wine from now on. At least I'll get a buzz all day long.

chivalryder

Water has zero calorific value which the human body can extract and make use of. Also if the water is below the temperature of the human body, it will require energy to be burned to warm it up within the body and thus would be a negative calorific input to the body.

This is actually a good point. If you were working out (say cycling or running) and the temperature outside was very cold (below freezing, for example), you would need to take in more calories than you normally would, simply because you need to use up calories to heat up the liquid you're drinking, before your body can use it.

brittany17love

It doesn't have calories but it has impurities and sodium in it. Tap water is called "Hard water" for a reason. Drinking distilled is good for yuo sometimes as it's completely PURE but you would have to replace lost sodium. So I drink both. I love distilled water. Now if your pipes in your city are not good pipes stick to bottled water or you can boil tap water and let it cool. When I drink distilled water I just put a sprinkle of salt in it. You can't taste it and sodium helps your body to keep some water. Do not overload yourself on sodium or you can cause swelling in legs, feet, etc. If all else fails drink gatorade or powerade. (:

Givingitagdgo

Ah ha! So its water thats responsible for these extra pounds. No more water for me. Bring on the chips!!! :bigsmile:

futuremalestripper

Proving you wrong. It is H2O , single oxygen therefore you formula is wrong. Second if everyone drank only 48oz. ,which is six cups, of water each day, your caloric intake could be as high as 720 calories a day. Since we have not been counting it as calories we would be in excess of 5000 cal per week for water alone. We should all be gaining another lb. and half unless we burn another 5000 cal in exercise. Does this make sense? there is such a thing as deductive reasoning also. It is not reasonable to come to your conclusion. One of the first proofs in elementary math is does your answer sound reasonable? This does not.:noway:

^ You're an idiot. The formula started with 2H2O ergo 2 molecules. This is done because oxygen is diatomic.

Secondly, this is a redox reaction and will also produce electrons. Water is quite stable and it isn't just going to separate in this manner. It would need either an extremely large amount of energy to separate them or else a reaction with another molecule. That molecule would inevitably result in new formations which will then absorb energy as well. Also, we're talking about thermal heat released in a reaction as opposed to the kind of energy your body derives from food.

If our bodies only needed thermal energy, then sitting in the oven would keep us full.
This crap ignores biology and chemistry.

fteale

If we metabolised water into energy we would all die of dehydration.

rprussell2004

And it's also true that water is the perfect replacement for gasoline! Just fill your tanks with water and burn it instead! Works great, I do it all the time! :laugh:

You know - sugar has even more calories, so wouldn't sugar water be an even BETTER replacement?

Just sayin'...

Oooh! I think you're on to something! I'll go give this a try and report back. I'll bet my gas mileage will increase at least 20%!

Wow, I just had a flashback from when I was, maybe, 4 years old?

Some intrepid high school chemists were trying this very experiment on my dad's new VW Beetle. He was so impressed with their ingenuity that he offered them the use of his baseball bat, at high velocity, repeated times as they ran down the street.

It was a very scientific and athletic evening.

vade43113

seriousness... first off your body doesn't burn water, I don't even think it is possible to do so in nature, it breaks the particles down to use in things like stomach acid... or keep it as it is to provide a fluid base for all the liquid parts of your body

thebaconbeast

Do you understand heat exchange?

1 calorie is the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C at 1 atmosphere of pressure.

pamperedhen

We should get the government involved...as it is a major compontant of acid rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smokin:

KatKatatrophic

Squidgeypaws007

And incidentally, water is not h2o2

if we were drinking H2O2 that would be no good!

Haha, quite Wonder if hydrogen peroxide has calories in it....

nevertoolate2

Somebody ****ing kill me!!!!!

Drink a load of water - obesity and heart failure will quickly follow and none of us will have to get our hands dirty.

rprussell2004

We should get the government involved...as it is a major compontant of acid rain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smokin:

I think this is a prudent time to point out the inherent dangers involved in H2O.

See this informative and well-researched website for more information:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

SPREAD THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS HARMFUL CHEMICAL!