We all know that it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1
degree celsius.

Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold
dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural
processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during
the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only
available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg.F)
will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37
degrees C (98.6 deg. F).  For each gram of dessert eaten, that process
takes approximately 37 calories as stated above.  The average dessert
portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic
law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted
from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized.

Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie
loss is approximately 5,000 calories.  Obviously, the more cold dessert
you eat, the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if
that is your goal.

This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted
glasses.  Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts
1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature
normalizing process.  Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is
1,020 calories.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories
(12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of
drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it
takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an
additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The
results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza
(loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces
an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have
already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with
pizza, and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.

We should all be thin very soon if we adhere religiously to this pizza,
beer, and ice cream diet.

Enjoy!