Negative Calories

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What Are Negative Calories?

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The thought behind negative calories is that certain foods could take more energy to digest than they provide in the body. Without exaggeration this idea took the diet industry by storm. The approach that you could eat from a list of "magic foods" and NOT put on weight but actually counterbalance some of the calories you gain from other foods certainly has tremendous appeal.

 

The bad news is that all foods contain calories; some more than others. Your body is one of the most efficient engines known to man. So efficient, in fact. that in some respects it works against you. The calories you ingest in even the lightest foods create much more energy than is required to digest them.

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Scientists Have Discovered One Negative Calorie Food 

To really use more energy than a food provides, you have to eat cardboard. Cardboard is the only edible substance known to the civilised world which is 100% cellulose. We humans lack the enzymes to break it down. Cows have a digestive system which would allow them to easily live on cardboard without any problems.

In the human body, the process of moving the cardboard through your digestive system would require a small but measurable amount of energy. The energy expended in digesting the cardboard would create a true negative calorie food.

Even though cardboard is the only truly negative calorie food so far discovered, I naturally find it difficult to recommend a cardboard diet.

What Negative Calorie Foods Are Not 

You cannot neutralize calories in food you have already eaten. For instance you cannot eat a piece of cake and then eat 7 celery stalks to create a calorie balance. Sorry it doesn't work like that.

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List of "Negative Calorie" Foods 

What Negative Calorie Foods Are.

Here is a list of so-called negative calorie foods. These are foods that are supposed to burn more calories whilst being digested than are actually contained in the foods themselves. These foods are highly recommended in any program designed to help you lose weight.

Vegetables:
    asparagus
    beet
    broccoli
    green cabbage
    carrot
    cauliflower
    celery root
    celery chicory
    hot chili peppers
    cucumber
    dandelion
    endive
    garden cress
    garlic
    green beans
    zucchini
    lamb's lettuce
    lettuce
    onion
    radishes
    spinach
    turnip


Fruits:

    apple
    cranberries
    grapefruit
    lemon mango
    orange
    pineapple raspberries
    strawberries
    tangerine
    papaya

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More tips on eating properly here

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JaguarJulie wrote...

I love the concept of negative calorie foods and need to eat MORE broccoli! 5*****

ReplyPosted September 13, 2008

 
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