Eating Iced Cubes Makes You Skinny!!

[Mitch21]

Ok, so not exactly... But I was watching either some health scientist on Discovery the other day, and he was talking about how drinking a glass of ice water makes your body burn like 12 calories. It lowers your core body temperature by a very small degree, but it's still enough to make your body work to re-establish your 98.6 core temperature. And while 12 calories doesn't sound like a lot of calories, if you were to drink the recommended 8 glasses each day, that equates to 96 calories that your body is burning by just drinking water! Cool stuff... but he did say that this alone will not make you skinny. Exercise and eating healthy should be the main ingredients to being fit.


I read an article last summer that talked about how something like 80% of the calories we ingest are devoted to maintaining our core body temperature. That's why we have to eat so much compared to our reptiles. They don't need to take in so much food because they get all their warmth from the environment. Anyway, this got me to thinking... What if you purposely kept your house very cold? For example, in the winter time, if you barely ran your heat, you'd be very cold and uncomfortable but your body would be working extra hard and burning more calories to maintain the high body temperature... Again, I don't think it would make you skinny or have a 6 pack, but it's just interesting stuff that I thought I'd share...

[filly77]

**note to self.. drink LOTSSSS of ice water** lol

[Blizzarddude]

Interesting, I'll have to try that. lol

[Jyson]

I saw that on the news awhile ago as well, however they also said that some new study suggested that women should drink 8-9 glasses of water a day, and men 10-12. Thats alot of water.

[azpythons]

april fools! all the smileys are upside down!

but yea this does make a lotta sense, and ever since i drank a lot of water i have lost weight, but i think its more due to the fact im not drinking soda.

[nixer]

so what should i drink to gain weight? i need about 20lbs

[MarkS]

Anyway, this got me to thinking... What if you purposely kept your house very cold? For example, in the winter time, if you barely ran your heat, you'd be very cold and uncomfortable but your body would be working extra hard and burning more calories to maintain the high body temperature... Again, I don't think it would make you skinny or have a 6 pack, but it's just interesting stuff that I thought I'd share...

My house is always cold in the wintertime but I end up gaining weight? Maybe the cold is triggering my body to put on extra layers of insulation for hibernation...

I saw that on the news awhile ago as well, however they also said that some new study suggested that women should drink 8-9 glasses of water a day, and men 10-12. Thats alot of water.

But what size glass are they talking about? 12 oz glass? 8 oz glass? 16 oz glass? shot glass? The shot glass probably wouldn't work because then I'd need a beer chaser....

so what should i drink to gain weight? i need about 20lbs

Beer... Works for me...

[ctrlfreq]

so what should i drink to gain weight? i need about 20lbs

Lard?

[nixer]

Beer... Works for me...

i didnt for me. also i dont really drink much anymore.

[elevatethis]

Enhance the effect of this by substituting a glass of ice water for every soda that you'd drink. Soda and energy drinks are two of the worst things you can put in your body.