[2186] in Humor
HUMOR: Diet Science
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Thu Nov 13 16:48:24 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:26:38 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
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>Subject: fwd science re diets (fwd)
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>>Subject: fwd science re diets
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>>> 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 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 at near 0 degrees C (32
>>> degrees 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 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
>>> loss is approximately 5,000 calories.
>>>
>>> Obviously then, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are
>>> and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.
>>>
>>> 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 any aerobic
>>> activity hands down.
>>>
>>> Happy eating!
>>>
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