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- barbobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I still say that dihydrogen minoxide is a dangerous substance and should be dealt with carefully
- sock2828, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2the new work out drink ice water all day and get extra exercise running to and from the bathroom
- etaylor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I still say that dihydrogen monoxide is a dangerous substance and should be dealt with carefully"
LOL...the host of the morning show on one of the radio stations in my town did a story on dihygrogen monoxide gas awhile back saying that it was at unusually high levels that morning. He did it as a joke because it was foggy. He spent the morning providing updates. Thousands of people flipped out closing schools...some even evacuating town and flooding city hall and public safety with calls. Just goes to show how stupid some people are. I can't remember what reprimands the radio show host had to put up with, but I know that he was eventually forced to give a public apology. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This just in, moving around burns calories.
- eventide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"water tastes like crap, do you know what fish do in it? ;)"
Air smells horribly, do you know what your neighbor does in it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my new diet consists of
1. stow away on a boat
2. hijack the boat
3.move south to antarica or north to the Arctic (fuel dependent)
4. lie in the snow and suck on it for a long time
5. become one with the penguin and install Linux on them (the real tux)
6. continue suck on ice for about 5 years
7. um mm go home (some how
6. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha..Love HSW. Would kill to write for them. Come on, the story is totally diggable.
- Mark_H, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You burn way more than 70 calories when you run a mile.
- Antz0rz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Getting pretty pathetic when people feel the need to drink cold water to lose calories.
Eating celery burns calories! Drinking cold water burns calories!
HOW INSIGNIFICANT! - gmacster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Or, you could burn calories by not turning on the heater. Right?
Your body would have to use energy heating itself up.
If that is the case I must be burning hella calories because I freeze my ass off every night. - Mysticcal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"who the hell drinks warm water?"
Myself, a college student without a fridge in his room. - TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sitting outside in the cold naked burns calories too. Everyone should try that.....well....only if you are an attractive female...or live very far away from me....yes, that is a great way to burn calories....
- rochlin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FALSE: or at least unverified. The fact is, drinking cold water (or just sitting in a cold room) can slow your metabolism. Your metabolism rate determines your base calorie burn rate (yes you burn calories doing nothing).
So, this is just more pseudo-science by someone taking a high school science class guess. It has no basis in biology.
"It's TRUE!" is a kind of disingenuous headline since this article is based on pure conjecture.
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Beginners' Guide to Portland, OR - super_structure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It is really sad when the poster doesn't even RTFA. According to HowStuffWorks.com, you (well, an average person would) burn 100 Calories jogging a mile, but the poster couldn't even be bothered to get that right. This is really lame. No digg here.
Why don't we just put up a digg for every single page on HowStuffWorks.com if this is considered to be newsworthy. Half the time, they don't even get their facts right. - navtiidia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i dont know...
i learned like in 7th grade that hot stuff has faster moving particles...
and dosent doing cardio mean you move fast...
and doesnt that make you burn cals...
and dont i use elipsis too much...? - RMuffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I must resarch this, if it is true it'd be cool.
But the passive heating argument is a logical one.
I would just go bike 10 miles but there's snow on the ground....... - chetmancini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, this is in my high school chemistry book. Kinda basic stuff....
- r00ted, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"who the hell drinks warm water?"
my HS football coach does, and he recommends it to all athletes. Simply because of this article, by drinking ice cold water (or gatorade...anything really), your body has to work extra to get the water to it's body temp and make it usable. Where as warm water (NOT hot..lol) would be instantly used.
Granted, Ice water tastes a hell of a lot better. - aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I wonder how cold water gets when stored in the fridge with no added ice. 48 degrees?"
Depends how cold your fridge is set. 48°F is a little high. It's recommended to have your fridge somewhere below 40° and above 32°. Bacteria grows quickest at 140°F to 40° and water freezes at 32°, so somewhere in that range is ideal. - capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0*cracks open ice cold beer* I'm on a diet now...
- jumjum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wonder how cold water gets when stored in the fridge with no added ice. 48 degrees?
- cool4u2view, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1...as opposed to warm ice water?
- Galaeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok so if we drink cold pepsi, our body would have to warm that up to body temp. to right? So technically were burning calories whenever we drink something cold. I guess it just comes down to how much calories are being burned and how much are in that can of pepsi
+digg for makin me drink more water - AUGTRON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ barbobot
DHMO haha
this insn't really usefull because most americans drink water cold anyways, so this "diet" is assuming you drink room temperature water. - hayden.evans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Breathing burns calories but cool find
- Schmitty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh...taking a thermodynamics course right now, and the first thing that came to my mind was, "Duh! Why didn't I think of that..."
- deBeuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Drinking boiling water can cause dramatic weight loss.
- Livert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Screw ice water. Liquid nitrogen is a lot colder. You'll burn more calories!!
- bluemech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I still say that dihydrogen minoxide is a dangerous substance and should be dealt with carefully"
Now if only we could find out what mInocide is! - rickster38, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's been a long time since A level physics but I seem to remember 1 kcal raises 1cc of water 1 degree Kelvin.
Therefore 1 pint (0.5747L) x 37 degrees x 1000 (to convert to litres) = 21,264 kcal.
Also I learned energy cannot be created only transformed, in other words you cant get something from nothing and if it is latent body heat doing the warming something else must be going on to replace this, weather it's carb or fat. - Silverbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If the idea is to heat water with your body to burn calories then you are limited by the amount of water you can ingest. Why not instead take ice-water baths and crank the A/C down to 50F or below? Use your own body's store of water in your effort! (Everyone knows that polar explorers burn thousands of calories a day to keep warm.)
Cool yourself to burn calories! - jarnot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> If only water came caffeinated...
See:
http://www.waterjoe.com/main.html
http://www.bevnet.com/reviews/krank2o/
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/drinks/5b2c/
etc etc... - jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Drinking 8 8 ounces of water of day is a nutritional myth stemming from the fact that you body needs approximatly that much water, HOWEVER, the VAST majority of water you get in a day comes from the foods you eat.
- darthsuo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, drinking cold water burns calories, but so does breathing cold air, and even just being in the cold. I think it's like two calories/hour or something.
- saskboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Perhaps if this has merit, it partially explains why North American coffee drinkers in offices tend to be on the heavier side of the population. Humans a long time ago would have got their water from a cool stream just like animals, so it would stand to reason that we're adapted well to drinking cold water. But back then we'd not necesarily want to burn calories by warming our water, since calories meant we'd have the energy to go out and work for our food.
- maskin1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am not sure about the veracity of loosing weight by drinking lots of cold water. But I know one thing is right though - Instead of filling oneself with poisons like coke and pepsi (read caffenated drinks), it will do a lot of good if you switch to drinking plain old water for a change.
- Misos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is interesting for one reason, in Europe, they tend NOT to use ice. In Germany, people think ice actually contributes to WEIGHT GAIN! In fact, any idiot who knows how the body works could've told you the opposite is true.
- hollowmedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"It burns 70 Calories, not 70 calories. 1 Calorie = 1,000 calories."
Your point? We speak in terms of kcals when it comes to nutrition, so how does this affect anything? - havaloc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This makes the case for eating cold pizza.
- CnorthMSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Don't believe this for a second. For "burning" Calories, you need to have an active process ongoing in the body, something that requires energy to run (like making a muscle contract, or all the processing that goes into breaking down food).
The raising of water's temperature is a passive process for the body. Heat that was already being generated from ongoing processes is what PASSIVELY warms the water to 37 degrees. Your body does not need to expend any extra energy to warm the water, thus without your body doing some kind of active work, there is no additional caloric expenditure. While the Howstuffworks article is correct from a thermodynamic perspective, it neglects the biological perspective. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have to say, I have learned more on Digg than in high school. (Scary)
- jayhenry1211, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So does doing actual excersie!! GO FIGURE!!!
I sincerly hope people don't use that as a diet instead of not excersising like all other "diets" have become. - nouhad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0better stop drinking cold water then >.
- sunchips, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Cold ice?! Ice is only cold... Hot Ice, The next generation.
- ultraelite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0right but when you exercise it is better to drink warm water so your body can use it faster (may not apply to running(i makes you through up))
- hammerattack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Extra mile? Cracksmoker, I burn 250 calories just jogging a mile. A full run burns 620 calories, but it also burns alot of muscle which is rather self defeating.
- Kano1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Chinese tea >>>>> ice water (baby!) :P
- anvilon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@CnorthMSU
So biological organisms can heat up water without caloric expenditure? Using what, magic? There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Biological systems obey the laws of thermodynamics just like everything else, they just do it in lots of little steps (each of which releases waste heat).
Organic molecules (fat,protein, sugars) are reduced to lower energy molecules while producing adenosine triphospate(ATP). ATP is then converted back to ADP to power almost everything in the body, not only the muscles, but stuff like pumping molecules into/out of cells. Every ATP->ADP conversion releases a small amount of waste heat. But even if this doesn't convince, I'm sure you've experience chattering teeth and muscle tremors when you are cold. The body involuntarily works the muscles to increase heat production.
On another note, cattle farmers have known for years that warming livestock drinking water makes them grow faster. i.e energy not spent heating water up to body temperature is instead spent growing. This is the opposite effect of what article purports, but supports the theory. - famulus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about coffee? Any calories burned by cooling off a hot drink?
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