Question:
Eating Ice chips
I thought I'd share this little tid-bit that I learned the other day and see if anyone else knows about this. I heard that if you eat about a cup of ice chips a day your body actually burns 500 calories. The reason being that the ice chips bring your body temperature down and your body has to burn calories in order to warm back up. Anyone else ever hear of that? — K T. (posted on February 2, 2001)
February 2, 2001
Hooey! Eating a cup of ice chips is not equivalent to running two miles.
Does that mean if you drink coffee that's hotter than your body
temperature, you'll gain weight?
— blank first name B.
February 2, 2001
I've seen so much on this site about eating ice chips & drinking cold
water to burn extra calories. That's an URBAN LEGEND! Why not eat really
cold ice cream? Or frozen cookie dough? Our bodies do not expend that
much energy on digestion. If it did, with the amount of food that most of
us eat, we'd wouldn't be in the predicament we are!
— [Anonymous]
February 2, 2001
I've heard that drinking ice water burns more calories! (But since I'm a
gulper, and prone to brain freeze, I like mine to breathe at room
temperture for 10 minutes or so). Look at it this way - when you shiver,
you are burning calories, so drinking ice water kinda induces internal
shivering. I don't know if it 500 calories would be accurate, but this is
one diet tip that won't hurt you. I certainly wouldn't compare it to
eating ice cream...last time I checked, tap water - and most designer
waters - is low fat and low sugar! If it makes you feel like your losing
weight, helps you stay committed to your afterprogram, and promotes that 64
oz. of water a day, go for it. Then eating ice chips really is an
effective weight loss tool, hmm?
— Allie B.
February 2, 2001
I read where models use this as yet another tool to help them stay
thin...........drinking ice water actually does burn an extra 25 calories
per glass--your body shivers to return to normal temps.......:)
— jane W.
February 3, 2001
My friend and I at work get a big cup of snow cone ice plain everyday to
snack on. It takes me all day to eat the ice it takes her a couple of
hours. She told me that her grandmother lost a lot of weight just eating a
lot of ice.
— Sharon T.
February 3, 2001
Personally, I think it is just a way to fulfill that nagging desire to
munch. You know, the one that makes us want to have something constantly in
our mouths? If we put food in there we get fat, if we use ice no fat ...
Ice = no calories and adds up to 64 oz of the stuff that pushed the fat
through. Now just watch your teeth. Don't want them all messed up when you
are just starting to get so healthy.
— S S.
March 15, 2002
— Laura S.
September 10, 2003
My aunt's doctor told her the other day that if she would drink ice water
that it would burn calories. He did not say how many but it was because of
your body heating the water up is what caused you to burn the calories.
When you go to the bathroom your urine is not cold when it leaves your
body! So I can see if you eat icechips it would do the same. The one who
posted about the icecream, Hey ice has no calories-- icecream does!!!!
— cindylou56
February 3, 2004
— Patti C.
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