Chewing on ice can wear down or crack the enamel and dentin (the stuff inside your teeth), leaving your pearly whites prone to cavities and decay, says Patricia Meredith, an associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. There's another reason to give the diet the cold shoulder: your teeth.
Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play Though it's possible that you could lose some weight, you'll likely gain it back as soon as you stop your ice habit, says Zied. While chomping down on ice may sound like a convenient way to burn calories, it’s probably not a smart idea, says Elisa Zied, M.S., R.D., author of Younger Next Week. If you do this every day, that could add up to one pound of weight loss per month-without changing any of your eating or exercise habits. On The Ice Diet's Web site, Weiner claims that eating one liter of ice (about four cups) will burn as many as 160 extra calories. According to the book's premise, eating a large amount of ice forces your body to burn more calories since it's bringing all of that frozen stuff back to body temperature. The diet's founder, Brian Weiner, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers University, recently published a free e-book about the diet. The weirdest diet since the ice cream cleanse has just arrived: A gastroenterologist has created a weight-loss plan called "The Ice Diet" that, spoiler alert, involves eating ice-a ton of it.
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