The Ice Diet
“The Ice Diet” If phytonutrients can alter gut flora
in a way that helps people lose weight, then you’d think people eating diets
based on plants would have significantly different colon populations. And, yes indeed, that’s something
that has been known for four decades and may help explain why those eating
plant-based diets tend to be slimmer. Another reason vegetarian
eating patterns have been tied to better weight management may be
the water content of plant foods. Fruits and vegetables average
about 80% to 90% water. Just as fiber can bulk up the volume
of foods without adding calories, so can water. Cognitive experiments
have shown that people tend to eat a certain volume of food,
and so when that volume is mostly water, they don’t end up gaining as much weight. But, even if you take out
the visual component, and instead just stick a
tube down people’s throats, and feed them whatever
volumes of food you want, if you add more water to
their stomachs, they tend to eat less— perhaps because of the stretch receptors
in their stomach sending signals to the brain saying, “We’ve had enough.” Scientists have identified a multitude
of ways our body controls our appetite, and that’s a good thing because if we’re off every day
just by a few percent, that could have huge impacts
on our weight over the years.
If water is so helpful, why can’t you just
eat a steak with a glass of water? It doesn’t work. You feel more full during the meal,
but you end up eating the same amount of calories throughout the day— unless they’ve found, you preload. Drinking water with the meal
doesn’t seem to help control calories, but drinking a big glass of water
a half hour before a meal might. “Thus it appears that water on its own
may be effective at increasing satiety and decreasing intakes for some
population groups when drunk before, but not with, a meal.” Ice water may be even better. Or, even, just ice. Water has zero calories,
but ice has less than zero since our bodies have to warm it up.
From the Annals of Internal
Medicine: “The Ice Diet.” Using simple thermodynamic calculations
of how much heat our body would have to generate to take an ice cube
up to body temperature, they conclude eating a quart of ice— like a really, really big
snow cone with no syrup— could rob our body
of more than 150 calories, the “same amount of energy as the
calorie expenditure in running 1 mile.” Sound too good to be true? It is.
As Ray Cronise talks about in his
body-hacking work with thermogenic, you may just be diverting
some of the body’s waste heat. If one wants to use chronic
mild cold stress to lose weight, turning down one’s thermostat,
or wearing fewer layers outside may be more effective, in the long run,
than drinking slushies of slush.
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