Negative calorie foods

brower47

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

No to all of the above especially all of the listed fruits. If you eat enough of any of those foods, you'd gain weight. They are not negative calorie foods.

madhatter2013

They don't exist.

See above

This.

Sorry, OP but those are just a pipe dream.

Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

<and the more you know>>>>>>

actually that is cool- I did learn something today!

PeteWhoLikesToRunAlot

If a calorie = a unit of energy, then negative calories = negative energy. You find that and you've got yourself a time machine, i think.

paulawatkins1974

Where do I find these negative calorie foods? I will pay my life savings!!

SlightlyMadman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food

There's never been any evidence to support their existence.

PikaKnight

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

Do yourself a really BIG favor.

Ditch this whole zero calorie food thing and just log EVERYTHING. In fact, for best practices, weigh it all out on a food scale.

If you don't do this, then bookmark this thread and when you are about to make a "Help, I'm not losing" thread, reference this and get an idea of where you are going wrong.

Justifier

Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

I need more pipe dreams

I need more tequila dreams.

sstolii123

They don't exist.

See above

This.

Sorry, OP but those are just a pipe dream.



Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

Thanks for the Pipe dream definition!!

The only thing that takes more calories to digest is water!

madhatter2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food

There's never been any evidence to support their existence.

There's never been any evidence that Wikipedia is accurate. Just sayin'

random_user75

Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

Neato! I like learning!

Thomasm198

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

I dare you to eat nothing but those items but eat more than your maintenance calorie allowance and then tell us if they are negative calorie. :flowerforyou:

SlightlyMadman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-calorie_food

There's never been any evidence to support their existence.

There's never been any evidence that Wikipedia is accurate. Just sayin'

Ok, then look at it this way: you ever seen an animal that eats only vegetables (herbivore)? If vegetables were "negative calorie" then these animals would all starve to death.

ruffnstuff

If a calorie = a unit of energy, then negative calories = negative energy. You find that and you've got yourself a time machine, i think.

Don't forget the flux capacitor.

_Zardoz_

A negative-calorie food would be a food that required more food energy to be digested than it provided. That is, its thermic effect – the caloric "cost" of digesting the food – would be greater than its food energy content. The thermic effect is scientifically called specific dynamic action. While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence supporting the idea that any food is a negative-calorie food.

Negative calorie vegetables: Aubergine, Asparagus, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Celery, Chicory, Cress, Cucumber, Fennel, Gourd, Leek, Lettuce, Marrow,Peppers, Radish, Spinach,Tomato, Turnip, etc.
Negative calorie fruits: Apricot, Blackberry Blackcurrant, Clementines, Damsons, Grapefruit, Guava, Honeydew Melon, Lemon, Mandarin orange, Melon Cantaloupe, Peaches, Plums, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Strawberry, Tangerine, Watermelon

The bold bit is the important bit

qwicherbytchin

It's evident that very few people read my post in its entirety. I DID state that I record them, I record everything, it was just a question.

Thomasm198

It's evident that very few people read my post in its entirety. I DID state that I record them, I record everything, it was just a question.

So it was a rhetorical question?

Derpes

"I put instant coffee in a microwave and almost went back in time."

No_Finish_Line

a pickel is supposed to have zero calories.

pushing it through your system might net out to less then zero calories.

i wouldn't expect the exercise from eating pickles to amount to much weight loss tho

JoRocka

They don't exist.

See above

This.

Sorry, OP but those are just a pipe dream.

Side note: As I wrote the above statement, I realized that while I know what constitutes a 'pipe dream' I had no idea why it meant what it did. Thanks to google: the derivation of pipe dream - from the fantasies brought about by the smoking of opium
First Known Use: 1890

I just thought it was important to learn something in this thread.

<and the more you know>>>>>>

actually that is cool- I did learn something today!

omgherrrrdddd

thank you.