Negative Calorie Diets

Negative calorie diets

Negative Calorie Diets comprise mainly of foods known as the negative calorie foods. These are foods that take up more caloric energy to digest then the calories that are in them. Your body has to expend energy in order to digest and absorb foods, in fact, 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. So these "negative" calorie foods are foods that take more calories to digest then actual calories in the item of food.

Negative calorie diets have also been the center of much debate. Some studies reveal such diets to be advantageous, while some suggest that these do help in weight loss but at a cost. For instance, there are certain experts who say that negative calorie foods not only do they contain sufficient vitamins & minerals to break down the host calories there is actually a surplus of enzyme producing biochemicals.

On the contrary, most experts say that such foods do not provide sufficient energy causing weakness and subsequently other diseases. For this reason, dieticians generally do not recommend a high intake of negative calorie foods.

A balanced quantity can work well but like proteins excessive quantities can be a major hazard. As a thumb rule, your diet should consist of a maximum of 2% of negative calorie foods.

Given below is a list of vegetables and fruits high in negative calories.

• Vegetables
• Asparagus
• Celery
• Lettuce
• Beet
• Onion
• Cabbage
• Cucumber
• Fruits
• Mango
• Raspberries
• Pineapple
• Strawberries
• Lemon

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