werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) (12/18/84)
The act of dieting involves comsuming less calories than one burns up, and most diets rely on lower input to reduce weight, but there is another way. A glass of milk generally contains about 180 Calories. However, if the milk were drunk frozen (at -20 C, the temperature of commercial freezers) and taking into account the specific heats of ice, liquid water, and especially the heat of fusion of water, then one finds that to bring the contents of a glass of frozen milk to 37 C (body temperature) one has to expend 100 Kcal (Calories in the language of Nutritionists). Hence, if one diluted the Milk with water by 1/2 before freezing, one would gain 90 Calories and expend 100 Calories, and hence lose 10 Calories with every glass. The same could be applied to many other foods, although some would be inconvenient in their normal form and would better be served as Popsicles. -condensed from an article that originally appeared in: _The_Journal_of_Irreproducible_Results_ (I, for one, am not sure I could get used to a French Fry Popsicle) -- Craig Werner !philabs!aecom!werner What do you expect? Watermelons are out of season!