Water has calories and its all a scam?

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  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    The energy to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen is the same as provided by the end product (more in an inefficient system). If a way were found to make that occur in the human body, smokers would be exploding on street corners if they lit up after drinking a glass of water! :drinker: :smokin: :explode:
  • ktbug82
    ktbug82 Posts: 166
    So is the hydrogen or the oxygen that has the calories? Could breathing make us fat too?

    :heart:
  • reddi2roll
    reddi2roll Posts: 356 Member
    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.

    Besides H2O2 = Hydrogen Peroxide :flowerforyou:
  • thefivecard
    thefivecard Posts: 1
    Define Calorie:

    Definition #1: An Energy Calorie: A calorie is a measure of energy in which one calorie is the amount of energy it take to raise one gram of water one degree Celsius.

    Definition #2: A Food Energy Calorie: The amount of energy received through oxygenation in the body

    In definition one, unless water is at absolute zero (approx -460 F) there is some heat energy in the water creating kinetic energy which can be measured by calories, So yes technically water has energy calories.

    In definition #2 the amount of energy received by the body is so small the amount of energy used to consume the water may possibly create a negative food calorie effect, though very small
  • FuneralDiner
    FuneralDiner Posts: 438 Member
    Water is actually pure fat.

    Trufax.
  • lisav6
    lisav6 Posts: 56
    Water has ZERO calories.
    Drink 8 glasses.
    End of discussion.

    This!
  • casperuk
    casperuk Posts: 195 Member
    OTHER MAN SAYS : Tap water has approximately 120 calories per serving

    In terms of actual calorific content, diet wise if that is correct above then it has

    0.12 calorie per serving, in diet terms.

    If its ice cold and cools your throat and belly then its more than made up for by your body restoring parity.

    They aren't good arguments, they are weak arguments based on a lack of understanding and twisting figures to suit their own ends which for the life of me I cannot figure.
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
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  • nevertoolate2
    nevertoolate2 Posts: 309 Member
    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

    the energy expended in separating H2O into H2 and O using electrolysis would offset the energy released from burning the H2 and O. Net calories is therefore nil. Besides, I don't think the body does either
  • owl92
    owl92 Posts: 74
    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.

    so have i taken those classes but i dont believe everything i read from The Food and Drug Administration especially, they will tell you gmo is good for you and msg wont be harmful its not eugenics at all.,, and as for school education on those subjects i wouldnt Not question some things.
  • skinnylove00
    skinnylove00 Posts: 662 Member
    youre the same girl who wants to go on a 1000 calorie diet.




    i dont think i am going to take advice/information seriously from you though lol.
  • sgv0918
    sgv0918 Posts: 851 Member
    :bigsm
    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 ;)

    :laugh: :bigsmile:
  • devil_in_a_blue_dress
    devil_in_a_blue_dress Posts: 5,214 Member
    I'm sorry -- I am not trying to be mean, but what is going on with this profile? You're 35 then you're 20 -- then you're a psychologist. You had a post that got booted yesterday because you were seeking advice about eating only 1,000 calories - now this. By your logic:

    My dog says you be trollin'.

    My neighbor George says you be trollin'.

    My cousin Hedi says you be trollin'.
  • mandypizzle
    mandypizzle Posts: 633 Member
    I now feel dumber after opening this...
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    This whole post just goes right over my head. **** chemistry. I'll be leaving now.
  • Cassaaaaandra
    Cassaaaaandra Posts: 184 Member
    You know, while water is a source of energy the body can't really break it down further than what it already is so it's unable to use it. It may in that respect have calories but since we are unable to use it we don't aknowledge that it contains calories.

    We still need water to run all of our body systems in order to utlilize other calories, though. But the notion of water making you fat or having calories that your body can thrive on is nonsense. If that were true you could sustain in the dessert with only water indefinately and the reality is that you cannot.
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
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  • Jezebel_Barbie
    Jezebel_Barbie Posts: 198 Member
    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*.

    This.
  • delaney056
    delaney056 Posts: 475
    You know, while water is a source of energy the body can't really break it down further than what it already is so it's unable to use it. It may in that respect have calories but since we are unable to use it we don't aknowledge that it contains calories.

    We still need water to run all of our body systems in order to utlilize other calories, though. But the notion of water making you fat or having calories that your body can thrive on is nonsense. If that were true you could sustain in the dessert with only water indefinately and the reality is that you cannot.

    This
  • holly1283
    holly1283 Posts: 741 Member
    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:
  • delaney056
    delaney056 Posts: 475
    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:

    Bam!
  • rprussell2004
    rprussell2004 Posts: 870 Member
    Besides H2O2 = Hydrogen Peroxide :flowerforyou:

    ill-have-some-h2o-too.jpg
  • jess1992uga
    jess1992uga Posts: 603 Member
    First off calories have to do with the ability of your body to metabolize the thing you eat. Really weird example but if you ate only paper, you wouldn't get fat because paper has no nutrients and thus no calories. In chemistry I am sure the process of burning paper has chemistry based calories but it is completely different. Thus water, tap or not, doesn't have calories. The impurities in the tap water also can't be metabolized and thus can't make you fat. Trust me if water had calories some commercial somewhere would have advertised that their water truly has zero calories.
  • cordianet
    cordianet Posts: 534 Member
    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:
  • rprussell2004
    rprussell2004 Posts: 870 Member
    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'...
  • Captain_Tightpants
    Captain_Tightpants Posts: 2,215 Member
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  • owl92
    owl92 Posts: 74
    youre the same girl who wants to go on a 1000 calorie diet.




    i dont think i am going to take advice/information seriously from you though lol.

    excellent, i wasnt giving any advice or information coming from my own self. Good to see you can leave a relevant comment though :)
  • owl92
    owl92 Posts: 74
    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:

    notice i didnt made the "prove me wrong comment"
  • reddi2roll
    reddi2roll Posts: 356 Member
    Besides H2O2 = Hydrogen Peroxide :flowerforyou:

    ill-have-some-h2o-too.jpg

    Hysterical. Took me a minute but hysterical :laugh:
  • BerryH
    BerryH Posts: 4,698 Member
    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:

    Bam!
    Observational empirical evidence only. The water has been providing all the calories, but it turns out cheese, chocolate and beer have no calories.
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