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An Engineering Alternative to Exercise

Bugeye58

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It takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade.

Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in a 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: body fat.

For example: a dessert served and eaten at near 0 deg. C (32 deg. F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 deg. C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated earlier. The average dessert portion is 6 oz. or 168 grams.

Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6216 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 1200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is 6216 minus 1200 or approximately 5000 calories. Obviously it follows that the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are, and the faster you will lose weight. The process works equally as well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories but extracts 1036 calories (6216 cal per 6 oz.portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce is 1020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12240 calories (12 oz. x 1020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a cold 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 beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces the opposite effect. But thankfully, as the astute reader by now has already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of cold beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.


Cold pizza sounds like a good option to me!





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ah, the messed up things you can come up with with the help of basic physics.
 
It fits with one of my favorite theories.

If you don't eat anything, you die.
The point of healty things is to postpone dying.
Therefore anything you eat is healthy.
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif
I love it... And plan to use it regularly.....

But I've read the argument twice now and can't figure why it doesn't actually work that way. Anyone have any insight?
 
Unfortunately, what are colloquially referred to as calories in food are actually kilocalories (1000 calories in the 1 degree per gram scheme). So the plan is out by a factor of 1000. So, unfortunately, the world works as normal - if it tastes good, it must be bad for you. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif
 
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...But I've read the argument twice now and can't figure why it doesn't actually work that way. Anyone have any insight?

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What makes you think it doesn't actually work?

But seriously folks, the reason isn't some bizarre twist of physics. It's a stupid quirk of language.

A calorie to a physicist is not the same as a calorie to a nutritionist. A nutritional calorie, sometimes capitalized as a Calorie or called a large calorie is actually what a physicist would call a kilocalorie. It's really one thousand calories.

Throw in that factor of a thousand and the math makes much more sense.


PC.
 
So I plan on increasing my consumption by a factor of 1000.

Of course the math doesn't work. It's a joke! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
But it shows what you can do when you're bored and have the calculator handy.
Jeff
 
Beaten too the punch. And here I was hoping to actually get to use my scant knowledge of physics for once in my life.
 
Well, if you eat celery, it actually takes more calories to digest than you get from the food....but it's celery.

Also, if you drink your daily 64 ounces of water as ice water near 32 degrees F, you can actually burn a few calories (something like under 70 per day) warming it before it leaves your body....but it's water.

Take from a guy ho knows (lost over 60 pounds in the last 5 months), if there were an easy way, I would have found it. There isn't and I havn't.
 
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