Assignment:
Explain the relationship between calories, food, and heat by responding to the following prompts:
Q1. List the 'magic formula' for weight loss. List a high-calorie food and a low calorie food. Do you see a relationship between the high calorie foods and the low calorie foods (other than the number of calories?)
Q2. Explain why food has caloric values listed on the package. Relate food 'calories' to heat 'calories'.
Q3. Water is often used as a heat sink because of its high specific heat. Explain what this means and give examples where this is used.
Q4. There is a diet called the master cleanse diet where you only drink water with cayenne pepper and maple syrup in it for anywhere from 14-30 days. Why the cayenne and maple syrup (from a chemistry perspective) and isn't this considered starvation?
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.