Saturday, April 2, 2011

Negative Calorie Foods

I came across this online a few weeks ago. The website is basically trying to get you to buy their diet book but I thought the whole "negative calorie food" concept interesting. The thing that caught my attention was that even though I am a fairly picky eater when it comes to fruits and veggies, I do like several of the options on the lists below and think I could easily try to include more of those foods into my daily food plan without feeling like I am "suffering" in order to lose weight. :-)


What are your favorite fruits and vegetables and how do you prepare them?



Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories food actually contains! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to use. In other words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though a food may contain equal amount of calories, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in negative calorie foods as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

Consider the facts:

  1. A piece of dessert consisting of 400 Calories (actually 400 kilocalories) may only require 150 Calorie (actually 150 kilocalories) to digest by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat !

  2. On the other hand, a 5 calorie raw piece of celery will require much more calories to chew and digest, so resulting in a net loss of calories from our body fat !! It implies that the more you eat, the more you lose weight!!!

Therefore, these foods are said to be good for achieving weight loss naturally without starving.

How it works?

All foods have a nutrient (carbohydrate, fat, protein), caloric (calories) and vitamin & mineral content. Vitamins stimulate living tissues to produce enzymes that breakdown the caloric nutrients of that food.

The foods with negative calorie contain sufficient vitamins & minerals that produce enzymes in quantities sufficient to break down not only its own calories, but additional calories from body in digestion as well. This is called "negative calorie effect".

Negative Calorie Vegetables
Asparagus
Beet Root
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery
Chicory
Hot Chili
Cucumber
Garden cress
Garlic
Green Beans
Lettuce
Onion
Radish
Spinach
Turnip
Zucchini
Negative Calorie Fruits
Apple
Blueberries
Cantaloupe
Cranberry
Grapefruit
Honeydew
Lemon/Lime
Mango
Orange
Papaya
Peach
Pineapple
Raspberry
Strawberry
Tomato
Tangerine
Turnip
Watermelon

Negative Calorie Diet

3 comments:

Charlie said...

I love and eat most everything you have on that list. I'm a really big veggie eater. I love fruit too. Another incentive to eat mostly veggies.

This is very nice to know.

Thanks,
Charlie

Cindy B. said...

Thanks for posting this, Alice. I screen shot the list and printed it to hang on my refrigerator. I will eat more vegetables and fruit this week until Friday when I go visit my dad in PA for the weekend.

MÂȘ Elena Sanchez said...

Thank you for your article.
I will do it.
Kisses
God blesses you