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Negative Calorie Foods & Weight Loss
Copyright 2004 P. Mehta, http://www.fatfreekitchen.com
You gain weight when your calorie intake is more than your
calorie expenditure. But if this calorie equation is reversed,
then it results in "negative calorie" balance in your body. In
this negative calorie case, you expand more calories than you take in,
resulting in a decrease in the stored calories in the form of body fat, and
you experience a weight loss. About 10% of
daily caloric intake is used to process foods in the body. You can expand
more by doing physical activities.
There are certain foods that show negative calorie effect because the body
has to expand more energy to extract calories from these foods. The negative
calorie foods need more calories to break down the foods and digest than the
calories the foods actually contain. The extra calories are taken up from
the stored fat in the body. Thus the negative calorie foods (may also be
called as minus calorie foods or fat burning foods) are ideal for reducing
the body fat and for losing weight.
Let us take an example. A piece of dessert consisting of 300 calories may
require only 150 calories to be digested by our body, resulting in a net
gain of 150 calories which is added to our body fat! So if you eat 100
calories of a food that requires 150 calories to digest, then you have burnt
an additional 50 calories simply by eating that food. These 50 calories are
used up from the stored fat in your body!
These foods are widely available in nature. Some of the foods from the list
of negative calorie foods (about 100 in number) are:
asparagus, broccoli, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, carrot,
garlic, papaya, spinach, turnip, zucchini, apples, oranges, lettuce,
grapefruit, pineapples, strawberries, and raspberries.
It is a great idea to eat these negative calorie food items to your
full satisfaction without counting calories. Include these foods in
your daily diet and plan your diet according to food pyramid. You
will be glad to see the fast results. You can follow a negative
calorie diet plan for safe and permanent weight loss.
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