What is a "Negative Calorie" food?

I've heard people remark, "Well, there really aren't calories in this, so I can eat a lot" or "This is a negative calorie food, so I'm really loosing weight by eating it."

Really? NEGATIVE calories? You are LOOSING weight by EATING? Where can I sign up?!

Let's look at the facts here about what people MEAN when they refer to foods having "negative calories", and what those foods are.

As you may or may not know, all foods have some calories. No natural food is actually a "negative calorie" food, but the overall effect of certain foods in our body is that of "negative calories". Wikipedia defines "Negative Calorie Food" as:

"A negative calorie food is a food that is purported to require

more calories to be digested than it provides. That is, its

thermic effect is greater than its calorie content."

In other words, negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories the foods actually contain. Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to breakdown and process. In other words, the body has to work harder in order to extract calories from these complex strains of foods. This fact gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage, and so they are also known as fat burning foods.

A piece of dessert consisting of 400 calories may require only 150 calories to be digested by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat, or "reserve tank" as mentioned Monday. According to this theory, for example, if you eat 100 calories of a food that requires 150 calories to digest, then you've burnt an additional 50 calories simply by eating that food.

Typically, a 25 calorie piece of broccoli (100 gram) requires 80 calories to digest, resulting in a net loss of 55 calories from the body fat!! Thus, the more you eat, the more you lose weight!!!
There are a wide variety of these negative calorie fat-burners in existence. In fact, there are a large number of foods that combine low calories, delicious taste, and excellent negative calorie properties.

For reducing weight and to fight obesity, you should not starve your body. You can eat a lot of these foods to lose that extra fat and to become slim naturally. Some of the most common of these natural foods are:

• asparagus
• apple
• beet
• berries
• broccoli
• cabbage
• carrot
• cauliflower
• celery
• chili
• cucumber
• garlic
• lettuce (any kind)
• grapefruit
• lemon
• mango
• onion
• orange
• papaya
• peach
• pineapple
• spinach
• strawberry
• turnip
• watermelon
• zucchini

By adding these items daily to your healthy, proportioned, low calorie diet, you are sure to help aide your machine in tapping into that reserve tank otherwise known as fat, this speeding up your efforts in losing weight & keeping it off. As always, don't forget to throw in at least 30 minutes of exercise a day!

Until Tomorrow!

Keep healthy, keep safe and keep going!

Have an awesome day!

♥Fit~NOW~Girl♥