[2188] in Humor
Re: HUMOR: Diet Science
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gilbert)
Thu Nov 13 17:12:48 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971113162638.006c2954@pop.fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:55:32 -0500
To: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>, humor@MIT.EDU,
mowu@MIT.EDU, mgshea@aol.com, wheger@wbc-architects.com,
Kris_Kelly@notes.pw.com, jbran18610@aol.com, dunbar@MIT.EDU,
dahv@MIT.EDU, jsquill@MIT.EDU, mtsai@bqa.com, immer@MIT.EDU
From: Stephen Gilbert <stepheng@MIT.EDU>
If you're wondering why this doesn't really work, check out the difference
between a Calorie (food science term) and a calorie (science). Big "C"
Calorie is a kilo-calorie (x 1000).
sg
At 4:26 PM -0500 11/13/97, Sharalee M. Field wrote:
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>>To: sharalee_field@harvard.edu, mfitzgib@fas.harvard.edu
>>From: Celia Kent <celia_kent@harvard.edu>
>>Subject: fwd science re diets (fwd)
>>
>>>Subject: fwd science re diets
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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