~ THIS MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDLY FOLKS FROM FRIGIDAIRE ~
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 chilled dessert (generally consisting of water, in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally suck the calories out of the only available source: your body fat!
For example, a dessert such as chilled pudding, which is typically served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 degrees F), will shortly be raised to the normal human body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories, as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 ounces, 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 deficit is approximately 5,000 calories. This amounts to a loss of nearly a pound and a half of flab from your bod. Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are, and the faster you will become slim and trim.
This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in large, frosted mugs. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 calories per 6 ounce 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 just one can of beer! You could starve yourself to death at some fraternity parties!
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 sure beats running on a treadmill at the gym while staring at a bunch of undulating obese people.
Unfortunately for those of us who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (just crawling with latent calories and usually served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But the obvious solution is to drink a great deal of beer with your pizza, then follow up immediately with very large bowls of ice cream.
Doctor Atkins, eat your heart out.
...But follow it up with a nice cold Budweiser and a Dove Bar.
Copyright © 2000 by WombatWoman.
Bud Lights Reserved.
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 chilled dessert (generally consisting of water, in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally suck the calories out of the only available source: your body fat!
For example, a dessert such as chilled pudding, which is typically served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 degrees F), will shortly be raised to the normal human body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories, as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 ounces, 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 deficit is approximately 5,000 calories. This amounts to a loss of nearly a pound and a half of flab from your bod. Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are, and the faster you will become slim and trim.
This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in large, frosted mugs. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 calories per 6 ounce 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 just one can of beer! You could starve yourself to death at some fraternity parties!
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 sure beats running on a treadmill at the gym while staring at a bunch of undulating obese people.
Unfortunately for those of us who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (just crawling with latent calories and usually served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But the obvious solution is to drink a great deal of beer with your pizza, then follow up immediately with very large bowls of ice cream.
Doctor Atkins, eat your heart out.
...But follow it up with a nice cold Budweiser and a Dove Bar.
Copyright © 2000 by WombatWoman.
Bud Lights Reserved.