Showing posts with label negative calorie foods diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negative calorie foods diet. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2009

Negative Calories: Vegetarian & Vegan Friendly

Negative Calories Vegetarian Friendly

One of the reasons that negative calorie foods work so well in a diet plan is that they are all foods that could be eaten by both vegetarians or vegans. Because of this, you could accurately refer to the negative calorie diet as a vegetarian diet or even as a vegan diet. This can help explain why the negative caloric effect works: these are all going to be healthy foods that are high in water, high in fiber, low in calories, and almost none of them have any fat. Having a diet filled with these types of foods is a slam dunk way to drop extra weight. Have you ever seen someone get 100 lbs overweight by eating carrots, celery, apples, or other fruits and veggies? Me neither.

The negative calorie food diet is often called a fad diet, and in some ways that might be true, but if a diet is designed to lose weight and it works, wasn't that the point? Negative calorie foods diets were not meant to be a full time weight loss eating plan, but as a crash diet. Negative calorie crash diets are short, usually 10 day, diet plans where all the food you can eat (and it's usually in large or virtually unlimited amounts) is from the list of negative calorie foods, but then after ten days you take at least a week off, eating reasonably to help keep the weight off.

There are many people who slam negative calorie foods, but a lot of this is because of common mis-perceptions, or because of technical arguments over what "negative calorie" actually means and how the negative caloric effect works as opposed to whether or not this diet actually works or not, which should be the only thing that is really heavily important when discussing weight loss plans. And for all the arguments back and forth, there's no argument that if you want to lose weight, that negative calorie diets work. One way to even prove this is that there are tons of knock off diets that are in some way based off the idea of negative calorie foods, or are based around a certain negative calorie fruit or negative calorie vegetable. The pineapple diet and cabbage soup diet are both great examples of this.

Negative calorie foods help dieters lose weight, so if you're looking to drop some weight, then this is the way to go. Besides, just think of all that tasty negative calorie fruit available!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Negative Calorie Soup | Negative Calorie Foods Diet | Negative Calorie Diet Soup

Negative Calorie Diet Soup

A lot of diets recently have been taking a book from the page of the Negative calorie foods diet. Diets like the Cabbage Soup Diet borrow from the principle of negative calories, and it's the cabbage soup diet in particular that has a lot of people interested in finding a quality negative calorie soup. While it's nearly impossible to make a soup that is completely negative calorie (at least one worth eating) a hearty soup full of negative calorie foods can keep the belly full while burning off nearly all the calories that you eat. It's a great way to lsoe weight while avoiding starving yourself and having to deal with that pesky appetite that will keep cropping up in most low calorie diets.

The way to make a low calorie, or even negative calorie diet soup is simple: make a basic vegetable broth for the soup, no meat, and add in a wide array of negative calorie and low calorie foods. These can be carrots, celery, mushrooms, bell peppers, fresh green beans, tomatoes, beets, cabbage, and other similar foods. Spice it up with a lot of garlic, pepper, and other seasonings (although try to lay off the salts). You can even throw in some cayenne seasoning for a little extra kick. The more different seasonings, flavors, and veggies you have in your negative calorie diet soup, the more likely you are to enjoy it and be able to enjoy the negative calorie diet by extension.

There are several places to find recipes for negative calorie soup. There are books, there's the common negative calorie e-book that is available online, and then there's the cabbage soup diet. The reason you can eat an unlimited amount of the soup in the negative calorie soup diet is that the soup in this diet is a negative calorie soup. Otherwise the cabbage soup diet wouldn't make any sense at all.

There is no single one recipe for negative calorie soup. Basically look at the list of foods that are options, use some common sense, and the rest should be easy.


Monday, August 18, 2008

Apple Negative Calories | Apples Negative Calories | Apple Negative Calorie | Apple Negative Calorie Food

Apples: Negative Calories at Their Best

Do apples have negative calories? Apples are one of the most popular negative calorie foods out there. They are great fruit that are both cheap and delicious. Who hasn't grown up remembering snacking on apples as a kid (and sorry - apple pie doesn't count)?

To answer the question about whether or not apples are negative calorie food, you have to look at the official list of foods for this diet. That list says that, indeed, apples count as part of the negative calorie diet.

This might seem surprising, since when many people think about a fruit or vegetable that might be "negative calorie," they assume that it has to be tasteless, or exotic. Neither is the case, as there are few fruits that are as tasty as the apple.

Negative Calories, however, do not refer to a type of calorie, but to foods on the negative calorie diet list which, in theory, can create a caloric deficit.

So what does all that fancy language mean? Apples are one of many fruits in a diet that has been referred to as the negative calorie diet, or zero calorie diet, or any similar derivative of those two names.

The theory is that if an apple you eat has 100 calories in it, but it takes your body 120 calories to digest it, then that apple has a total calorie effect of -20, because you took more to burn it off than it gave you.

While some of the expected foods, like celery and carrots, appear on the list, many people are surprised by the numbers and variety of fruit that are acceptable for this eating plan, including apples.

Negative calorie foods are only fruits and vegetables, and while not everything makes the list (you'll never find potatoes or coconut, for example), a lot of even common foods from these two major food groups are an accepted part of a zero calorie diet.

Knowing this information is helpful for many people who are trying to make this unique eating plan work for them. It's one thing to look at celery, bell peppers, and onions and try to figure out how to make these a major part of the diet, but it's much easier to do this with an apple.

Negative calorie foods are somewhat controversial, in that people argue if a caloric deficit actually ever takes place, but the good news if you're looking at this diet is that every food on here is healthy.

So go ahead and grab another apple! That's one food that won't be adding to your waistline!

If you want a negative calorie foods cookbook, just look around online and you'll be sure to run into the sales page for it somewhere.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Negative Calories Diet: Can You Really Lose Weight By Eating?

The negative calories diet is not only one of the most popular diet plans of the last couple years, but it's also one of the most controversial diet plans out there. There have been huge arguments over if there is a such thing as a "negative calorie," or if it's all hocus pocus. Adding fuel to the fire are the high and mighty attitudes of some of the people strongly swearing that this diet is a fraud.

The technicalities of what a diet is named or how it scientifically does or doesn't work does not interest me nearly as much as the bottom line of any weight loss plan: does it work? The negative calories diet does work, in part because it calls for the majority of your food to be either fruits or vegetables. This is usually a big improvement on most people's diets, but in addition to that you are kept away from foods like coconuts and potatoes, which are not good for weight loss at all.

A negative calories diet above all else, however, is a supplemental diet. This means you can't only eat the foods on the list and nothing else. If you do this, you will eventually starve to death. This can make the diet tricky. A lot of people will argue that this diet isn't effective: but they'll eat three cheeseburgers loaded with negative calorie foods like green peppers, carrot slices, or other foods. That's like ordering water with a 1,000 calorie fast food burrito: at that point the H2O doesn't really matter.

That does relate to one valid criticism of the negative calories diet is that it is hard to implement into a normal day. Eating apples as a snack or adding green beans to a meal is easy, but that's not enough, so how can you use this diet in your weight loss plans?

There are good books and e-books out there about negative calorie foods and how to use them, and some other diets, like the cabbage soup diet, are designed around negative calorie food principles. Many of the ads you see online for negative calorie foods lead directly to a negative calorie foods cookbook.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Celery Negative Calorie | Negative Calorie Diet Foods | Best Negative Calorie Foods

Celery Negative Calorie

Celery is one of many foods that is on the "Negative Calorie Foods List," and this vegetable is known for its quality dietary qualities, which made it popular even before the celery negative calorie connection was made. Celery is popular because it's easy to add to soup or salad for a little bit of extra flavor while filling up some of the empty space in your stomach that lettuce and spinach just won't fill.

Celery as a negative calorie food makes sense since this is a vegetable with an extremely high water content and very few calories. Celery alone is virtually impossible to gain weight from, and the sheer amount you would need to eat to even break even on weight is unrealistic for anyone to eat. The one big caveat to watch out for is the addings.

Carrots and celery with ranch dip is a popular snack, but that ranch dip is absolutely loaded with calories and fat and more than cancels out any negative caloric effect you would get from the celery to begin with.

While there are many negative calorie foods that can help supplement a diet, but they have to be implemented the right way. Adding a snack of negative calorie foods after a huge meal of fatty high calorie foods is like ordering a diet coke after eating two supersized value meals at McDonald's: at that point the damage is done and you're not doing well diet wise.

This is why there are many diets designed to use negative calorie foods to your advantage while maintaining a balanced diet. Negative calorie foods such as celery are great, but only if they are utilized properly. To maximize the effect of celery's negative calorie effect, look for more information like designed negative calorie diets and negative calorie cookbooks.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Negative Calarie Foods | Negative Caloric Foods | Negative Calorie Foods Diet

Negative Calarie Foods: Is Watermelon a Negative Calorie Food?

A common assumption is that if water is zero calories, then watermelon must be a negative calorie food. While in theory this makes sense, in reality it's not the case. Watermelon has snuck onto several "Negative Calorie Foods Lists," but this is a little bit baffling since it didn't show up on many of the original lists.

While this post is dealing mostly with whether or not watermelon is a negative calorie food, and what foods really are negative calorie fruits and negative calorie veggies, as opposed to the posers. Not knowing the actual lists is what leads many to believe that watermelon is on the list, but they don't thinkg that pineapple and kiwi are negative calorie fruits (they are).

Before there are any angry comments, let's also deal with the many negative calorie myths. Some of the most common myths, or questions, about negative calorie foods and the negative calorie food diet, are:

  1. Is there really a such thing as negative calorie foods?
  2. No foods have negative calories, so negative calorie foods is a scam, right?
  3. Do negative calorie foods work?

Almost all the arguments about the negative calorie foods diet are based around these questions. The truth about negative calorie foods go as follows:

  1. There are no foods that take more calories to burn than consumer (except maybe, and a big maybe, ice water) - this concept is from a misinterpretation of Calorie, with a "C" versus calorie, with a "c."
  2. There is no such thing as a "negative calorie"
  3. The diet still works for losing weight

So how is it that the negative calorie diet works even with #1 and 2 being true? Simple. There are so few calories in foods that are labeled negative calorie foods, and virtually no fat or carbs, that it is impossible to eat enough to keep gaining weight. How are you going to gain weight every week eating carrotts, celeries, pineapple, apples, blueberries, cabbage, and water? It's not going to happen. In fact, if you had a diet of ONLY negative calorie foods, you would eventually starve to death.

So while technically the people who argue that negative calorie foods don't exist are correct, they miss the forest for the trees. The point of a diet is to lose weight. Will taking on a negative calorie foods diet do that? ABSOLUTELY!!

This doesn't make watermelons bad food. Not only are negative calorie foods great for filling the stomach and losing the weight, but so is a diet very heavy in veggies and fruit with less carbs, fat, and meat. The negative calorie foods diet is a supplemental diet, however, and if you want the full quality effect that a diet chock full of negetive calorie foods can do, you need to find a diet plan, or a cheap negative calorie foods cookbook.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Cabbage Soup Diet Negative Calorie Foods | Negative Calorie Foods Diet | Negative Calorie Foods

The Famous Cabbage Soup Diet Thrives on Negative Calorie Foods

The negative calorie foods diet has gotten a lot of flak, as has the concept of negative calorie foods. Bash the marketing all you want, but the end all be all questions should be whether or not this diet causes you to lose weight. And the answer with this diet is a resounding yes. Even better, the ability to eat however much you want, as long as it's from a certain group of foods, which helps for those of us who have big appetites, and whose bodies throw absolute fits at 1,400 calories.

What is amazing to me, is that many will bash negative calorie foods, but then they admit that diets like the famous cabbage soup diet thrive on negative calorie foods. Now with that being said, the cabbage soup diet is not based solely and completely on negative calorie foods, but a huge amount of the weight loss from this diet does come from negative calorie foods.

The cabbage soup diet is a seven day diet that is repeated as often as needed until you lose all the weight you need. The use of negative calorie foods throughout this diet is huge.

Cabbage Soup Diet Soup Recipe Ingredients:

  • 6 large green onions
  • 2 green peppers
  • 1 or 2 cans of tomatoes
  • 3 carrots
  • 1 container (10 oz. or so) Mushrooms
  • 1 bunch celery
  • 1/2 head cabbage
  • 1 package Lipton soup mix
  • 1 or 2 cubes bouillon (optional)
  • 1 48oz can V8 juice (optional)
    Season to taste with as much salt, pepper, parsley, garlic powder, cayenne pepper as you want

Green onions, garlic, green pepper, tomatoes, carrotts, celery, and cabbage are all negative calorie foods. Mushrooms are known for having very few calories, and veggie juice is never going to add the pounds. This is the reason you can always eat as much of the soup as you want: because most of the food in it will require you to burn more calories than you take in.

Day 1 of the cabbage soup diet allows you to eat as much fruit (minus bananas) as you want and as much soup as you want. Many fruits are negative calorie foods, so people who love oranges, strawberries, raspberries, pineapple, or kiwi are going to keep eating negative calorie foods.

Day 2 allows for as much cabbage soup as you want with any veggies, minus potatoes. This also means a good portion of food choices will be negative calorie foods.

This means at this point there are two days full of negative calorie foods, and the soup that you can eat an unlimited amount of every single day also are negative calorie foods. While the cabbage soup diet does work off higher metabolisms, and caloric cycling, without the negative calorie foods, this doesn't work.

For the cabbage soup diet to work, they must have negative calorie foods as a crux, which is all the more proof that a negative calorie foods diet can work.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Truth About Negative Calorie Foods | Truth Negative Calorie Foods | Are There 0 Calorie Foods?

Truth Negative Calorie Foods

Many people want to know what the truth about negative calorie foods is, but this is an extremely difficult question to answer, because that depends on what you want to know. There's still argument regarding the truth about negative calorie foods and whether these foods actually cause a negative calorie reaction or not.

Right off the bat, there's no such thing as a 0 calorie food, so if you're looking for foods with zero calories, then you pretty much have water and diet cola. Nothing can have negative calories, since when you deal with reality as opposed to math you can't have less than nothing. The way that the negative calorie foods diet works is by changing out a lot of foods in you're regular diet with "negative calorie foods," or foods that are suspected of causing your body to use more calories to burn the food than that food provides.

When a food is called a negative calorie food, that doesn't mean that the food has "negative calories," but it means that the end result of your body spending caloric energy to burn off the calories of the food is a negative number. So say a piece of fruit has 20 calories, but your body requires 30 calories to burn it. The end result is you lose ten calories. That's what a negative calorie food is. A negative calorie diet is a diet in which the majority of foods are like this.

That's the first thing to consider when pondering the question of "what's the truth behind negative calorie foods?" Some people don't get that a negative calories food diet is based on foods that cause a calorie deficit, not foods that have "negative calories." This understanding of how the diet around negative calorie food works, or the misunderstanding, causes probably half the objections from people claiming it's a fraud.

Of course no foods have negative calories. In fact, virtually no foods naturally have 0 calories, but supporters of the negative calorie diet never say that. They say that these foods cause a calorie deficiet, which there is at least some evidence to suggest.

The next question to wrestle with when trying to determine the truth negative calorie foods is whether or not this actual deficit takes place. Some people find "foods no calories" as being more realistic, but if there are 0 calorie foods, is it really hard to believe it takes even a single calorie to burn this off? Whether or not an actual deficit occurs, there are several pieces of evidence that strongly suggest that this is the case:

Negative Calorie Foods are a supplemental diet!

The negative calorie food diet is not a diet that dictates every single thing you eat. In fact, any trustworthy source will make it abundantly clear that this is only a supplemental diet because if you ate negative calorie foods, and only negative calorie foods, then eventually you would die of starvation and/or malnutrition. So if there is no such thing as negative calorie foods, how would this be possible?

Take a look at a negative calorie food bell green pepper. If you ate only bell green peppers, you would lose a lot of weight and not be in very good shape after three weeks. That's why negative calorie foods are not a diet that dictate everything you eat. But if you replace half of your higher calorie high fat snacks with negative calorie foods and supplement that with some vitamins, some beans or white meat, some whole grains, and you will be amazed at how quickly the weight can start coming off.

Negative calorie foods Pineapple

When you look at any list of negative calorie foods, pineapple will probably be one of the most surprising fruits on there. Pineapple is one of the highest calorie negative calorie foods, but pineapple has a ton of dietary fiber, and vitamins that help encourage digestive enzymes. This fruit also gives the body great vitamins, which is always good to have the digestive system running at full capacity.

Pineapple. Negative Calorie. Not two terms that you would think go together, but this delicious fruit is on the negative calorie foods complete list, and is probably my favorite food on this entire list of fruits and vegetables.

Negative calorie foods kiwi

Kiwi is another negative calorie food that surprises a lot of people. For those of you not familiar with kiwi as a negative calorie snack, the entire fruit is edible. Kiwi isn't a zero calorie food, but in theory it also has a negative calorie effect, just like pineapple. The entire kiwi is edible. This includes the skin (where most of the fiber from a kiwi actually is), the seeds, and the white stuff in the core. It all tastes really good, as well, making kiwi and pineapple both fantastic negative calorie treats.

What's the verdict on negative calorie foods?

You can argue about the technicalities of a negative calorie foods diet and whether it works the exact way as described or not, but in the end there is no arguing with results. If a majority of your diet consists of negative calorie foods, you're going to lose a lot of weight. So in the end the truth about negative calorie foods is that the diet works, and isn't that the main point? Does it really matter what the exact science of negative calorie foods is?

A negative calorie foods diet works. Period, end of statement. In the end, no matter what questions you have about negative calorie foods, this is a diet, so the end question is whether or not a negative calorie foods diet works and the answer is that it does. If you're looking for foods that cause you to lose weight, the negative calorie food diet is absolutely one that you should take a look at considering.

There aren't many negative calorie foods cookbooks around. In fact, there seems to be one major one in print, and one major negative calorie foods e-book online. If you want to see what your options are among negative calorie cookbooks, then you need to look around the advertisers and see what's being offered. Those books will give you all the negative calorie foods recipes you can imagine, and makes this diet much easier.

So that post hopefully tells you all you need to know about the truth about negative calorie foods. If you want the truth, negative calorie foods works.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Pineapple - A Great Negative Calorie Food

Negative Calorie Foods: Pineapple

One of the most interesting foods that often appears on the negative calorie food list is pineapple. Among negative calorie foods, pineapple is probably the highest in calories, so how can a fruit with a solid amount of calories be a negative calorie food?

Well in the negative calorie foods diet, there are many different factors in determining the amount of energy it takes to burn various types of negative calorie fruits and vegetables, and total calories is only part of that equation. While pineapple has a lot of calories for a negative calorie food, pineapple is still a fruit, meaning it has far fewer calories than grain, meat, or most other foods of the same size.

Another huge benefit to pineapple, and part of the reason that pineapple remains a negative calorie food, is that it contains an enormous amount of vitamins and dietary fiber (think cleanse the system good). Add low calories with heavy vitamins and high fiber, and the digestive enzymes go wild over this fruit, causing some who believe in the negative foods diet to strongly approve of pineapple as a great negative calorie food. In fact, there's even a pineapple diet that keeps increasing in popularity.

I'm personally a huge fan of pineapple, since it is one of the more filling of the negative calorie foods, and gives a lot of energy, vitamins, and fiber that you need to get through a day. Whether or not pineapple actually has a true negative calorie effect is hard to say, and pineapple seems one of the least likely fruits or veggies on the negative calorie foods list to actually have a negative calorie effect, but even if it doesn't, pineapple is an extremely healthy fruit that has everything you need to get your digestive and metabolic systems working at full throttle.

Pineapple has the expected large amount of vitamin C, and nominal amounts of Vitamin A, calcium, and even some iron. The biggest positive of pineapple is the huge amount of dietary fiber, as well as the good types of carbs that give you energy and keep your system balanced. If you love the flavor of pineapple and are like me, you can woof down this negative calorie treat by the can.

A very important point when looking for negative calorie fruits such as pineapple: pay attention to the ingredients. Many companies that produce pineapple add extras like sugar or high fructose corn syrup - avoid these cans of pineapple at all cost. Look for the pineapple whose ingredients read simply: "Pineapple, Pineapple Juice." That should be all you see in there. If not, look for another can of rings or slices...or even better, buy it fresh if your local supermarket has it available.

Kiwi is another excellent negative calorie food that is popular and has some guts to it, though in my personal opinion pineapple is still king. It's interesting how when looking for information on the negative calorie foods diet, there are definitely some foods on there that get more attention than others. Two common search terms that appear from individuals looking for more information on negative calorie foods are:

  1. negative calorie foods pineapple
  2. negative calorie foods kiwi
  3. are pineapple, kiwi negative calorie foods?

This definitely shows a great interest in these popular and filling fruits as part of a negative calorie foods diet, and are probably two of the most filling negative calorie foods available out there.

So the answer is that basically, whether or not pineapple is a true negative calorie food, pineapple is a major part of the negative calorie foods diet, just like kiwi is. The dietary fiber in both revs up your digestive system, which is probably the biggest reason why two fruits like this can make it so high up the list.

As a side note: I'm hoping most of you know this already, but in case you don't, a negative calorie foods diet is not meant to be a conventional restrictive diet where these are the only foods you eat. You need a diet with some calories, some fat, and some protein. A negative calorie foods diet is meant as a way to supplement your eating habits. If you ate only negative calorie foods, you would slowly starve to death, so occasionally have some white meat, or beans, or something with protein, fat, and calories to keep your body running smoothly. A negative calorie diet is a supplemental diet - not a complete list.

That's another reason I'm so big on the kiwi and the pineapple, because these fruit give some vitamins, fiber, and energy to keep your body running. If your looking for great negative calorie foods, pineapple is a great first stop!

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Negative Calorie Foods Kiwi

Kiwi is a fantastic fruit that although strange looking, provides an amazing amount of vitamins as well as tastes great. Kiwi is also a negative calorie food, remaining so popular among people on and off of the negative calorie foods diet that it is even part of a common daily search term: "negative calorie foods kiwi."

The Kiwi is an edible fruit, and all of it is edible, including the skin and many seeds. The kiwi is a berry, and yes, it is one of the rare fruits that even has protein. The kiwi is one of the most popular negative calorie foods, and has a massive amount of vitamin C, as well as a lot of vitamins A and E. In addition to that, kiwi also has almost as much potassium as the much publicized banana.

Kiwi skin also has a lot of anti-oxidants, as well as great fiber. Long before the negative calorie foods diet came along, kiwi fruit has been widely praised in many nations for its effects in reducing the risk of blood clots, things the blood, and lowers fat in the blood stream. This makes kiwi one of the healthiest fruits out there.

It's true that among negative calorie foods kiwi is near the top both in substance, fuel, and health. You can argue all you want whether or not it's technically a negative calorie food, but if you replace candy bars with kiwi, you're going to lose a lot of weight. Same deal with replacing simple carbs with kiwi.

Kiwi is one of the healthiest fruits out there, so if you're looking for a high vitamin healthy negative calorie food, kiwi is one you should definitely look at, and it's a negative calorie fruit that you don't need a negative calorie cookbook to work into your diet.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Negative Calorie Foods Diet

There has been a lot of back and forth on whether negative calorie foods exist, or whether it's all snake oil and wives' tales. One thing I've noticed while doing extensive research is that often times the people who are most adamant that "negative calorie foods" is a stupid concept seem to miss what the actual negative foods concept is about.

Negative calories foods are not foods that don't have calorie. All food has calories of some kind unless it's water. Negative calorie foods are foods belonging to a diet that empahsizes foods that are low in calories, but which the body takes more energy to burn than it receives. The theory is that the normal calorie burn from digesting the food and living a normal life will wipe out the calories eaten from these foods.

For example, if a slice of carrot had 10 calories, but took 12 to burn, that food would have -2 calorie effect on your body. That doesn't mean the carrots are -2 calories, but that the end result of this process is to lose weight. The idea with negative calorie foods, which are always certain types of fruits and veggies and are usually very high in fiber, and have a low number of calories to begin with.

These foods are excellent choices for a diet, since they keep you full, but don't add any calories whatsoever.

I repeat this because it's important: no foods have negative calories. The lowest you can possibly get is zero, which is water. But ice water requires the body to work to warm it up for use, meaning that although the calorie amounts burned are paltry (an estimated 50 calories for the recommended 8 glasses of ice water a day), that still creates a negative calorie effect since your body burned 50 calories to process ice water, which gave back 0 calories.

This is what is meant by "negative calorie foods." A more accurate description might be "Foods low in calories that produce a negative calorie effect because of how much energy it takes to burn them," but that doesn't sound very catchy. Meanwhile the term "negative calorie foods" gets the same idea across.

So as for the argument over whether these technically exist or not, negative calorie foods do what they are supposed to for a negative calorie foods diet: they make you lose weight. That's the entire point, isn't it?

The idea of negative calorie foods works for several reasons, and most of these foods have a few things in common that make this possible:

1) All of these foods are extremely high in fiber. This makes it much easier for your body to digest quickly, and use every nutrient while passing the rest straight on through quickly enough that it can't stick around to become fat.

2) All of these foods are either fruits or veggies. There is no other type of food on this list that falls into another food group. These food groups are commonly the healthiest types of food for you anyway, and almost never have any fat, though there are exceptions (like coconuts, which definitely do NOT make the negative foods list).

3) Most all of these foods will have a high water content. This makes sense since no matter how strong a metabolic effect a food has, the higher in calories it is the harder it will be to burn all of them off. Water has no calories, so fruits and veggies that are particularly high in water will have less calories and thus there is less to burn off while digesting.

This is just the beginning of many posts giving more details on the negative calorie foods diet, so keep tuned in for more updates.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Negative Calorie Foods - Truths, Myths, and What Does it All Mean?


Hi, welcome to my negative calorie foods diet blog. The future posts will examine whether negative calorie foods really exist, or not, what foods are closest to zero calories, and whetether or not this diet can really help someone who is struggling to lose weight.

There is a lot of conflicting information about negative calorie foods, and finding the truth about this diet can be very difficult. In the posts to come I will provide you with all the information you need to make your mind up about this exciting and intriguing new diet plan.