Sunday, April 10, 2011

Negative Food Calories

What is Negative Calorie Foods?
Negative Calorie Foods are a group of fruits and vegetables, which use more calories to digest than the calories food actually contains.

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.

Simply...the idea is, you burn off calories by eating these foods.

Example A- A piece of Cake consisting of 400 Calories may only requires 150 Calories to digest by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat.
Example B - A raw piece of celery (about 5 calories) will require much more calories to chew and digest, so resulting in a net loss of calories from our body fat. So it would seem the more you eat, the more you lose weight.
How Does It Do That?
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 Chewing and Digestion as well. This is called "Negative Calorie Effect".
FACT OR MYTH?
A whole pound of Raw Green Vegetables only has 100 calories. Eat a pound and you'll be full, satisfied, and maybe even completely stuffed. There is plenty of science to support the fact that a raw food diet of fresh fruits and vegetables will help you lose weight.... and by eating them causes healthy enzymes to be released in the stomach. Enzymes aid digestion and help your body be healthy in a number of ways. Enzymes break down foods and help increase your metabolism rate.
So do you burn up more calories than you ate? That is yet for scientists to prove. But the nutrition facts indicate that diets high in fruits and vegetables can indeed help you lose weight.
THE NEGATIVE FOODS LIST
Dr. Victor Hugo Lindlahr, (American Health Food and Weight Loss Pioneer) actually made a list of foods that are now touted as negative calorie foods. Back in 1929, Dr. Lindlahr noted that these foods seemed to help increase the metabolism, help with fat loss, and detoxify the body.
The VEGETABLES
Asparagus
Beet Root
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery                                                                                                                 Chicory
Chili Peppers
Cucumber
Garden cress
Garlic
Green Beans                                                                                                   Lettuce
Onion
Radish
Spinach
Turnip
Zucchini

THE FRUITS
Apple
Blueberries
Cantaloupe
Cranberry
Grapefruit                                                                                                     Honeydew
Lemon/Lime
Mango
Orange
Papaya
Peach                                                                                                                                 Pineapple
Raspberry
Strawberry
Tomato
Tangerine
Turnip
Watermelon

When you eat a giant meal of organic, raw, vegetarian-type of foods instead of processed fatty foods, you certainly do ingest fewer calories, and your body also burns up a bit more calories in digestion.

With love, Diana.

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