
My mom, arms akimbo: “Stanley !
Are you kidding me? You’re eating all the chocolates? You’re gonna gain five
pounds!”
My dad, looking up at her over the top of his reading
glasses: “That’s a physiological impossibility.”
* * *
My father has a theory about dieting. It’s tough to refute. The
definition of “calorie,” he notes, is the energy it takes to raise the
temperature of a gram of water a single degree.
So when you drink a glass of water at 98 degrees, nothing happens.
You drink the water, it passes through your body, no energy is exchanged.
But if you were to drink a tub of ice water, he theorizes, your
body would have to expend all sorts of energy raising the temperature of the
water to 98 degrees before it passed through your digestive system.
So the easiest way to lose weight, my dad argues, is to
guzzle cold stuff.
My husband, listening to this discourse, summarized as
follows: “So lukewarm German beer makes you fat, but a cold Budweiser is a
freebie?”
Sometimes it’s a real geek fest around here.
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Today’s soundtrack sung by Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me With Science. Dance!
PS. We’ll be back to blogging after the holiday. Digging out the passports and tripping off to
Great information - Loved the beer analogy. I don't drink, but it was funny to read.
ReplyDeleteI'm missing my blog "fix." Get off your vacation already and entertain me. (wink wink)
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