Klarinet Archive - Posting 001119.txt from 1999/01

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] good news for us hefty, frustrated clarinetophiles
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:52:28 -0500

This is total rubbish. The calorie used in discussions of food energy is
the *kilocalorie*, so ALL these quantities should be divided by 1000!!
Roger Shilcock

On
Thu, 21 Jan 1999, TOM RIDENOUR wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:30:26 -0500
> From: TOM RIDENOUR <klarinet@-----.net>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] good news for us hefty, frustrated clarinetophiles
>
> Beer & ice cream diet
>
> 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(32.2 deg. F)
> will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of37 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, 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 (12 oz.
> 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 beer, 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.
>
>
>
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