Healthy Eating

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram
of water 1 degree Celsius. 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 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 gm)
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 (12oz. 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 pop, 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 should all be thin very soon if we adhere
religiously to this pizza, beer, and ice cream
diet.

Happy eating!