A New Diet Fad Has Just Arrived

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A new diet fad has just arrived.The idea is to drink very cold water so that the body has to burn up glucose to furnish the energy to warm the water to body temperature.You decide to see if this idea is thermodynamically reasonable.How many liters of water at 5.00°C would one have to drink to metabolize 1.00 kg (2.2 lb)of glucose? Body temperature is 37.00°C.Glucose is C₆H₁₂O₆ (180 g/mol),and the enthalpy change for the metabolism of glucose is -2802 kJ/mol.

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