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Speaker 1: today's question. Does drinking ice water burn calories? For anyone
Speaker 1: who's trying to lose weight? This question is an exciting one.
Speaker 1: If you simply want to know if your body burns
Speaker 1: calories warming up the water, the answer is yes. But
Speaker 1: if you want to know if drinking a lot of
Speaker 1: ice water can help you lose weight or keep weight off,
Speaker 1: this yes needs to be qualified with some calculations. Here's
Speaker 1: the definition of a calorie. It takes one calorie to
Speaker 1: raise the temperature of one liter of water one degree celsius. So,
Speaker 1: considering that the definition of a calorie is based on
Speaker 1: raising the temperature of water, it's safe to say that
Speaker 1: your body burns calories when it has to raise the
Speaker 1: temperature of ice water to your body temperature. So calories
Speaker 1: are being burned. Let's figure out exactly what you're burning.
Speaker 1: When you drink a sixteen ounce or point five liter
Speaker 1: glass of ice water, the temperature of the ice water
Speaker 1: can be estimated to be zero degrees celsius. Body temperature
Speaker 1: can be estimated at thirty seven degrees celsius. So in
Speaker 1: the case of a half lead glass of ice water,
Speaker 1: your body must raise the temperature of the half liter
Speaker 1: of water from zero to thirty seven degrees celsius. In
Speaker 1: doing so, your body burns seventeen and a half calories.
Speaker 1: In the grand scheme of a two thousand calorie diet,
Speaker 1: that's seventeen and a half calories isn't very significant. But
Speaker 1: let's say you adhere to the old eight eight ounce
Speaker 1: glasses of water a day idea. To warm up all
Speaker 1: that water in the course of a day, your body
Speaker 1: burns about seventy calories, and over time that seventy calories
Speaker 1: a day can add up. You can increase the effect
Speaker 1: by chewing on ice. It takes eighty calories to melt
Speaker 1: a liter of ice, so if you freeze half of
Speaker 1: your daily water intake and eat that ice, you'll burn
Speaker 1: an extra eighty calories for more on this and thousands
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