The Beer and Ice Cream Diet archived

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 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, 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.We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

Happy eating!

Works for me.

Sounds good to me as well!

Think I'll trade in my no potato, no white rice, no white flour, no beer, no sugar diet for that one!

I'll have a lager float.

Yeah, baby! Sign me up!

Ive had an excellent Guinness stout gelato.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD3deQmyRHw

Hank, we also a prune Armagnac ice cream once, which was delicious, but not exactly beer...

Can we get pizza into this diet somehow?

One tiny caveat: What we call a calorie in food is actually a kilocalorie by the definition given above, or 1000 calories. So your dessert contains 1200 (K)calories, minus 6,216 calories or 6.216 Kcal = net 1,193+ (K)calories. Sorry.:cry:

You're no fun ^^^ :swingin:

We just had peach lambic floats the other day. I hear cherry lambic is even better.

Math like that hurts my head. And I don't like beer--at all--or ice cream--very much.

Is there a triple fudge brownie and jello shots diet? Cuz that's the one I want!

Kathy, what a buzz kill you are! :wink:

I didn't read the numbers part in the OP, I just read about beer and ice cream.:tooth:

Me, too. All I saw was:

Beer + Ice Cream = Good

If you put the ice cream IN the cold beer and drink that all down before it gets warm, I imagine a rather violent, diet-like effect would take place, thus using even MORE calories without digesting any! :crazy:

Great point, pdg! Bring on the Lager Floats. Or maybe the Chocolate Porter Floats? :bigsmile::wink: