Would you like to eat foods that actually burn more calories than they contain? This is the idea behind the Negative Calorie Diet. All foods contain calories but some burn more energy to digest than they contain - thus they are negative in net calories after digestion.
Your body burns calories to digest food. For instance an orange contains about 50 calories. In theory, it takes about 75 calories for your body to process the orange and make use of all the nutrients it contains so you should be left with a negative 25 calories for eating the orange.
The amount of negative calories will also depend on your metabolism and frequent, healthy meals will actually help speed the rate at which your body burns calories.
Critics of the negative calorie diet say there is no scientific evidence to support this theory and that no food really contains Negative calories.
The up-side of the Negative Calorie Diet is that foods recommended are all fruits and vegetables, which are foods rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber. All healthy foods.
These negative calorie fruit includes:
Negative Calories veggies include:
These foods have to be eaten in their fresh, natural state, not cooked, as heat destroys the digestive enzymes.
A diet of only negative calorie foods is not recommended as fruits and vegetables alone will not supply all of the nutrients necessary for a healthy diet. However, when choosing the foods you will eat each day or when you’re looking for a snack, why not add some of these foods?
For those who want to lose weight, adding negative calorie foods to the diet is a sure-fire winner. These foods are high in nutrition and low in calories. They contain fiber to create a feeling of fullness. Combined with exercise, the negative calorie diet can help you maintain a normal weight or achieve long-term weight loss.
The U.S. National Institute of Health recommends 5 servings of fruit and vegetables a day for women and 9 for men.
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