Negative Calorie Foods- All You can Eat

just been on this site. realli interesting. thanku xx

cool, thanks for that.

what about mellons? re these negative calories?

Sorry to burst your bubble but they simply dont exist
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1896439_1896359_1896346,00.html

It's like what phcutie said though. You'd still have to eat a ton of them just to gain weight, so they're fine. Just didn't want everyone to go around believing these diet buzzwords.

The article you posted actually doesn't refute anything in the article originally posted. The article stats that all food has calories, but when you can have 120g of something, it fills you up thus meaing you don't fill up on food that's full of calories.... Also, Dr. Nancy Snyderman is not a dietician so her statement is just that, a statement.

Perhaps they should be called "status quo" foods as opposed to the misleading negtive calorie, but that doesn't change the fact yuo can eat as much celery and iceberg lettuce as you want...

.... Also, Dr. Nancy Snyderman is not a dietician so her statement is just that, a statement.

Uh...and just WHO is this "Mike Adams, the Health Ranger"? I sure didn't see any medical credentials next to his name. Regarding this matter, I'd be more likely to believe someone who is a doctor than someone who considers themselves an "Author, Investigative Reporter and Educator." Think before you post, people.

The article OP posted also says this:
"In other words, you expend more calories eating them than they deliver to your body" which is misleading.

Agreed.

Theroretically, you could gain weight just eating everything contained in that list of "negative" calorie foods. However, it's incredibly likely that you would be able to eat enough of them to do so. They may as well be negative calories...

Agreed.

Theroretically, you could gain weight just eating everything contained in that list of "negative" calorie foods. However, it's incredibly likely that you would be able to eat enough of them to do so. They may as well be negative calories...

Yeah. I guess if you look at it the other way, if these foods WERE truly negative calories, by that logic, you would starve to death if all you ate was celery. In reality though, that would not be the case (although you would have to eat a ridiculous amount to stay alive).

It's all about word smithing really.

Yeah actually Techincally, yes can eat as much as you want of those, but to word it as if those foods have magic properties is deceptive.

hmmm, it's articles like this that fill people's heads with rubbish about nutrition. No wonder people struggle to lose weight on fad diets or with conflicting information with no scientific basis.

There is no such thing as a "negative calorie" food. All food (healthy or bad) contains calories which help to fuel your body. Saying that these negative calorie foods use up more calories while being digested than they actually contain is a whole load of rubbish.

The process of digesting and absorbing nutrients, breaking them down and utilising them or the "thermic effect of food" or TEF to use its proper name, contributes only 6 to 15 percent of the calories you burn in a day. Depending on how difficult the food is to digest or how hard our bodies need to work to extract it. So for instance apples or bananas would be easier to digest because they have a lot of simple sugars in them and break down easy as opposed to for instance brown rice or fibrous foods which take more energy to break down and extract nutrients. So if you would look at a bunch of celery in a salad worth 20 calories and your body would use 10% of those calories to actually break down the food you would still be left with 18 calories of food that need to go somewhere.

Also one of the things which doesn't get mentioned about this whole negative calories business is if the food is eaten raw or cooked because this can make a big difference as well. Some foods can be difficult to break down in their raw state and would have a higher TEF rating. But once you cook them you actually process the food and make it easier for your body to extract the nutrients. For instance peppers and carrots are quite fibrous and would require a lot of work by your body if eaten raw and your body would probably not extract everything from it when it passes through your system. However once you cook them you break down the cell walls of the food, making it easier for your body to get at more of the nutrients and calories. In effect increasing their calories. That is why on some packets of food you see that they contain more calories when cooked or prepared.

I think people need to actually read a bit more about how nutrition works and what goes on rather than believing what some so called "health rangers" are declaring as gospel on the internet

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