Negative Calorie foods - Fact or fiction.

MarkieMarko

Anyone no if negative calorie foods work towards weight loss - and if so any recomendations, I also was told pineapple is good
similar to this article, any thoughts : http://www.naturalnews.com/030912_negative-calorie_foods_burn_fat.html

yarwell

a myth I suspect. Even if it was negative we would be talking about 10 or 20 calories here and there. Pineapple is a sugar solution standing upright, why would it have negative calories ?

AzhureSnow

It. Is. A. Complete. Myth.
This discussion comes up all the time, and the conclusion is always the same. ALL foods have calories, and it doesn't burn THAT many calories to digest these foods, so even celery and lettuce will net you a 1-2 calorie gain. I, personally, believe that focusing on "negative calorie" foods is a waste - focus on getting the right amount of nutrition in your body (and your protien/carb/fat ratio) and you will find that is much better than waterlogging your body with rabbit food all day.

Aperture_Science

Pineapple +48 cals per 100g (from MFP database) = Positive calories.

Onesnap

It's all a bunch of hooo-hah.

Time travel. Fact or fiction.

LondonEliza

It. Is. A. Complete. Myth.
This discussion comes up all the time, and the conclusion is always the same. ALL foods have calories, and it doesn't burn THAT many calories to digest these foods, so even celery and lettuce will net you a 1-2 calorie gain. I, personally, believe that focusing on "negative calorie" foods is a waste - focus on getting the right amount of nutrition in your body (and your protien/carb/fat ratio) and you will find that is much better than waterlogging your body with rabbit food all day.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is good advice

Kennkaru

There are tons of negative calorie foods, but the negative calorie part only works if a unicorn is eating them.

Darlingir

It's all a bunch of hooo-hah.

Time travel. Fact or fiction.

I wish we could time travel.**sighs**

wildboar1

Fact: Sand has negative calories.

GMBosick

I think its a myth too..

TexanThom

It is true....Bigfoot told me so.

bethb4

There are tons of negative calorie foods, but the negative calorie part only works if a unicorn is eating them.

hahah i like it

medaglia_06

Definitely a myth

This one is so popular that even Snopes believes it – and it is rare for Snopes to be wrong. But the problem is, the numbers don’t add up. One stick of celery contains around six calories2. A female weighing 150 pounds, aged 35, and 65 inches tall, burns 30 calories per hour3 eating whilst sitting. In the interests of science I ate a stick of celery (which is no mean feat considering I hate raw celery) to see how long it would take: 2 minutes and 14 seconds. If the female described above takes as long as I do, that means she can eat just under 30 sticks of celery in one hour – totaling 180 calories. That leaves an excess of 150 calories still not burned. Granted, there is some calorie burning involved in the digestive process as well, but there is no way these numbers allow for negative calories; on average you burn 62 calories an hour just existing4 (this includes digestion) – that still leaves an excess calorie count of 88. No matter which way you look at it – celery does not result in negative calories.

theskinnyonme

Fact: Sand has negative calories.

^^^ So does cardboard

yoovie

This may be the laziest weight loss method Ive ever heard of.

carld256

Celery is the only calorie negative food that I know of. It takes a little more energy to chew and digest a stalk of celery than it provides in calories, but the effect is tiny.

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/celery.asp

felice03

There are tons of negative calorie foods, but the negative calorie part only works if a unicorn is eating them.

what if I am half unicorn? then does it work?

yo_andi

There are tons of negative calorie foods, but the negative calorie part only works if a unicorn is eating them.

I had unicorn steak for dinner last night.

yo_andi

Definitely a myth

This one is so popular that even Snopes believes it – and it is rare for Snopes to be wrong. But the problem is, the numbers don’t add up. One stick of celery contains around six calories2. A female weighing 150 pounds, aged 35, and 65 inches tall, burns 30 calories per hour3 eating whilst sitting. In the interests of science I ate a stick of celery (which is no mean feat considering I hate raw celery) to see how long it would take: 2 minutes and 14 seconds. If the female described above takes as long as I do, that means she can eat just under 30 sticks of celery in one hour – totaling 180 calories. That leaves an excess of 150 calories still not burned. Granted, there is some calorie burning involved in the digestive process as well, but there is no way these numbers allow for negative calories; on average you burn 62 calories an hour just existing4 (this includes digestion) – that still leaves an excess calorie count of 88. No matter which way you look at it – celery does not result in negative calories.

SCIENCE!

LondonEliza

There are tons of negative calorie foods, but the negative calorie part only works if a unicorn is eating them.

I had unicorn steak for dinner last night.

With or without the horn? :smokin:

yo_andi

There are tons of negative calorie foods, but the negative calorie part only works if a unicorn is eating them.

I had unicorn steak for dinner last night.

With or without the horn? :smokin:

Oh I had the horn alright... bit gamey.