Do 'negative' calorie foods exist?
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Relaxingmind
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Not negative calorie as in they have no calories at all but negative as in it takes more energy or uses more calories to digest them than they contain per serving. Kind of like a 3-5= -2 concept. I've heard the body burns calories digesting food but idk how much.
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No. It is a myth.
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Nope. The calories spent digesting food are fairly minimal compared to everything else you burn in a day.4
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Ice water.10
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Ice water.
Since when was water food?1 -
trigden1991 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Ice water.
Since when was water food?
Definition - any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth.
Water can absorb minerals so you get minerals when you drink.
Does this count?
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Ice water.
I was going to say ice cubes.2 -
i heard celery fits the bill.0
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150poundsofme wrote: »i heard celery fits the bill.
There is a lot of misinformation out there. It's hard to sort through all the bunk.2 -
fried unicorn is delicious and -200 calories per serving.24
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Save the unicorn; becoming extinct, only 1 left in the world.2
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trigden1991 wrote: »GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Ice water.
Since when was water food?
I was being facetious.
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It's a myth that persists because people confuse kilocalories, also confusingly called Calories (with a capital C) and calories (with a low c). Even a medium stalk of celery has about 6,000 calories (=6 Calories or kilocalories), which is far more energy than it takes to warm up and digest the celery.
The energy required to process and store food is called the Thermic Effect of Food (or Specific Dynamic Action) and is, on average, about 10% of the food's energy content. Simple sugars take far less; protein takes more, but still nowhere near the food's actual energy content.7 -
How about celery soaked in ipecac and wrapped in tape worms? That should do the trick.16
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No such thing as negative calorie foods.
bwogilvie explained TEF above, it's a percentage of the food which cannot be greater than the actual caloric content of the food itself.3 -
rennickm1986 wrote: »How about celery soaked in ipecac and wrapped in tape worms? That should do the trick.
Stop it. You guys are making me hungry.3 -
rennickm1986 wrote: »How about celery soaked in ipecac and wrapped in tape worms? That should do the trick.
Stop it. You guys are making me hungry.
Those tape worms sound delicious.
Seriously though, don't do that (anyone, not you specifically).2 -
Haha, my coworker was insisting I try "negative calorie foods" today instead of exercising...
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TEF is a given and people spout this information tend not to know what TEF is.
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