I was wondering - if you eat hot food, doesn't that heat energy have to be absorbed by the body? So eating food at body temp or lower would be less calories?
or am I being silly..?
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12-01-2003, 04:08 AM #1Burning inside
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Eating hot food = more calories?
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12-01-2003, 04:24 AM #2Registered User
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I don't know about that, but it's better to drink ice water b/c your body burns more calories trying to maintain homeostasis in your body.
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12-01-2003, 08:00 AM #3Registered User
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yes cold food/drink takes heat from the blood so you make more heat , and hot food gives heat to the blood so you make less hear yourself
but it's such a small difference, i don't think it's noticable.
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12-01-2003, 03:05 PM #4Banned
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Well... It does burn calories when you eat cold things, but the effect is sooo small. Although a calorie = the unit of heat it takes to raise once gram/ml of water by 1 degree
The calories we measure in foods etc are Kcal = 1000 cals! So you burn 1 calorie (Kcal) every time you raise the temperature of 1000 ml of water by 1 degree....
So, if your temp is about 37-38 degrees (Aussie terms here - I think that is about 98 F right?) and you drink 1000ml water that is about 10 degrees (ice = 0, and you can't drink ice... and it is pretty uncomfortable trying to down really, really cold water) then you have to raise the temperature of the water by about 18 degrees = 18 calories. Not a lot of calories burned there people.
If you could down 3000 ml (3 litres) of 2 degree water a day then you could burn an extra 108 calories a day!! Woo hoo!
Personally - I think it would be easier to walk around the block for 10 minutes.
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12-01-2003, 03:10 PM #5Ready, Set, Go
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Great info EmmaOriginally posted by Emma-Leigh
If you could down 3000 ml (3 litres) of 2 degree water a day then you could burn an extra 108 calories a day!! Woo hoo!
Now I must exploit this new way of burning calories... No cardio for me ever again
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12-01-2003, 03:48 PM #6Registered User
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Great post Emma. I'm gonna eat ice all day.
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12-01-2003, 07:18 PM #7\m/
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lol, eat ice 12 hours a day. make sure to post results !!
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12-01-2003, 07:43 PM #8...after you get treated for hypothermia.Originally posted by strung_out209
lol, eat ice 12 hours a day. make sure to post results !!
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