Water has calories and its all a scam?
owl92
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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
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
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comment on this **** people0
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Water has ZERO calories.
Drink 8 glasses.
End of discussion.0 -
Huh?0
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Water has ZERO calories.
Drink 8 glasses.
End of discussion.
awwwwwww
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AH **** water is making me fat! I am going to pretend I did not read this.....0
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WAIT if this were true there would be no such thing as starvation mode...or was that a myth anyway?0
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Not my words but the words of others. pretty good arguments on both sides aswell peeps.0
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*scratching my head* say whaaaaa?0
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Thank God, I really wanted to switch back to beer and now I have a reason. Don't want to get a water gut.0
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There are people who believe in big foot and mermaids too, but there is no scientific proof! Water has zero calories. Your body is 85% water and needs water to cleanse your system as well as keep you hydrated. A dehydrated body is a sick body. Drink 8 ounces or water 8 times a day. Your body needs it and it has NO CALORIES!0
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Bull, its the only thing in life that doesnt.0
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Wouldn't burning the h2 and o2 heat up the water required to count calories, showing water has calories?
Prove me wrong
Surely then it would have minus calories? But it's not feasable, as we don't break water into it's components in our bodies.....unless I went somewhere VERY wrong in my biology training....
And incidentally, water is not h2o2
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Calories are a measure of energy. Even pure water contains energy. Tap water contains even more in the form of impurities.
Are they negligible for the purpose of watching our weight? I should think so.0 -
Not my words but the words of others. pretty good arguments on both sides aswell peeps.
Actually, they are terrible arguments, as they provide no factual basis for these statements which are clearly pulled out of their *kitten*.0 -
The only way you could get calories from water was if you metabolised it. You don't. Water has no calories when consumed.
This...
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
doesn't happen in the human body.0 -
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.0
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Well, as far as the chemistry of it goes... i believe that breaking up the h20 would require an input of energy. Therefore, your body would be USING calories to break down the water.
Not totally sure, but that's my understanding...0 -
Calories are a measure of energy. Even pure water contains energy. Tap water contains even more in the form of impurities.
Are they negligible for the purpose of watching our weight? I should think so.
nice.nice. :glasses: i like it.
120 calories for tap water could well be true then?0 -
Pah! Water doesn't have calories. And I have actually read a few articles debunking the starvation mode thing. Apparently it can happen, but the difference in the amount of calories you burn vs non-starvation mode is really negligible. Always two sides I suppose.0
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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
you've got your equation wrong.
it's
2H20 --> 2H2 + 20
aaaand water doesn't make you fat0 -
If your body was an electrolysis machine or actually recombined H2 and O2 into H2O then calories would be exchanged one way or the other. Obviously H2O enters your body and then leaves without doing either of the things above so Net=Zero.0
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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. One calorie is defined as the amount of energy required to raise 1ml of water 1 degree celsius.
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. However, due to the conversion factors, you'd need to drink 1000ml (or one LITER) of water to "burn" one single food-type-calorie per degree difference.
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.0 -
Even if water has a few calories, you need water to breath....your lungs require it, you need water to sweat, and you sweat all the time. Feel your socks after a walk...they are moist sometimes wet. Your feet sweat requiring 1/2 to 1 cup of water. Your heart requires water to work properly. Ask my husband...his cardiologist said he wasn't drinking enough to make the muscles of his heart work right. You need water for your digestive system to work properly. So even if it has a few calories, drink up, it will help you lose weight.0
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The Food and Drug Administration has evaluated the contents of water and in its pure form, distilled or not, it has ZERO calories.
I've taken Bio Chemistry, Anatomy and Physiology and I can assure you, I've never seen in any of my texts where H2O has calories. It's completely absurd.0 -
And incidentally, water is not h2o2
if we were drinking H2O2 that would be no good!0 -
ABSURD.Calories are a measure of energy. Even pure water contains energy. Tap water contains even more in the form of impurities.
Are they negligible for the purpose of watching our weight? I should think so.
nice.nice. :glasses: i like it.
120 calories for tap water could well be true then?0 -
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.
GOOD READ ^:happy: :happy:
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So is the hydrogen or the oxygen that has the calories? Could breathing make us fat too?0
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Thank God, I really wanted to switch back to beer and now I have a reason. Don't want to get a water gut.
:laugh: love it!!0 -
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.
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