Negative Foods

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I know some people get this misconception from the new Weight Watcher's plan but when you're counting calories, you have to count them all. Including the celery.

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Well except for my chicken and dressing you just listed my whole lunch salad.

I agree with the fruits. Except for maybe a few small berries, even with the high water content I don't think any of the others shoud be considered negative calories.

List everything and their calories when tracking, that is my recommendation. The whole tracking program on here provides analysis of calories consumed to calories burned. Even if it takes more calories to eat celery then is in it, you still have to include it for consistency in tracking and keeping yourself overall on track.

Don't get me wrong - everything on there is healthy and should be consumed, but don't mistake that for being 0 or negative net calories.

I agree with the previous posters........there are no negative calorie foods. Even celery........

Here is a better definition:

RE: negative calorie foods. No that doesn't mean the
foods have negative calories I wish lol. What it means is that
when you eat these foods raw or in some cases slightly cooked with nothing on them
your body burns more calories digesting and processing them than what
is in the actual food itself. For a healthy weight loss and a little
boost add some of these foods to your diet each day. Most are full of
nutrients and won't weigh you down.

Im going to have to disagree on this one.

As long as we're creating negative list, can we add beer? Pretty please?? I'd say with whipped cream and a cherry on top, but they didn't make the cut.

Sorry ... no such luck as negative calories.

That is why many of people on the new weight watchers program are struggling. It is counting all these fruits as zero points and people don't control their intake.

That is why many of people on the new weight watchers program are struggling. It is counting all these fruits as zero points and people don't control their intake.

Unless they've recently changed, even WW counts the above mentioned fruit once it receaches a certian weight. Meaning you could eat up to zero points wait a couple hours and go back and eat up to zero points again ... which as we all know doesn't add up to zero on weight in day.

I only believe that pure filtered water has no calorie what so ever.

I only believe that pure filtered water has no calorie what so ever.

If you drink a lot of very cold filtered water and very fast .. you MIGHT burn few calories from warming your stomach up ..
good luck with that ! !

Whaddya know, I typed "negative calories" into the forum search and found my article link and excerpt. Here ya go:

They don't exist. http://www.answerfitness.com/269/negative-calorie-foods-fact-fiction/

An excerpt from the above link:

Is Celery Really a Negative Calorie Food?
While the list of negative calorie foods has ballooned to include everything from beets to strawberries and mangoes (yes, I’m being serious here), celery is the most commonly cited negative calorie food.

From a nutritional standpoint, celery is pretty much empty. It’s basically made up of water, sodium, some trace minerals and something called cellulose — which is a form of vegetable fiber than the human body cannot digest. It contains no protein or fat and marginal carbohydrates. Any other nutrition in celery is in the form of vitamins, minerals and enzymes, which contain no calories.

In fact, aside from iceberg lettuce and cucumbers, you probably couldn’t find a less nutritious, lower-calorie vegetable to eat. These foods are already about as close as you can get to eating zero calories. Close, but not quite, as we’ll see in a moment.

A large, stalk of celery weighing in at 2.2 ounces contains only nine calories. Negative calorie diet advocates claim that the mere process of chewing and digesting celery requires an expenditure of energy that exceeds the 9 calories present in the celery. Therefore, the argument goes, celery has “negative calories.”

Again, this all sounds good in theory, but what about in practice?

Issues with the Negative Calorie Foods Theory
There are some flaws with the negative calorie food theory, however.

First, the reason that certain foods like celery are already low in calories is exactly because of their high-non-caloric nutritional content. The fact that cellulose, water and minerals like sodium contain no calories is already figured into the food’s caloric-content. That’s why it has minimal calories in the first place. Negative food advocates want to double-dip here, and have you believe that the non-caloric nutrients like cellulose lower its effective calorie levels even more, but that’s just not how it works. This is already baked-in.

Second, the whole argument that the body burns more calories chewing and digesting negative calorie foods like celery is also suspect.

Yes, the body does expend a certain amount of energy to digest food, but that expenditure — even with foods that contain a high-percentage of non-caloric nutrients like cellulose — is actually fairly minimal.

Typically, the body will expend 10 - 15 percent of the calories you consume each day to fuel digestion. Let’s just throw the negative calorie food gurus a bone and say that for foods that are rich in non-digestible nutrients like cellulose, that number is actually as high as 50 percent of calories consumed (I have no evidence for this claim — I’m just being generous to prove a point.)

In the case of celery — the poster child of all negative calorie foods – you would be burning an extra 4.5 calories per each 9 calorie, 2.2 oz serving of celery. That would put your effective net calories at 4.5 (9/50% = 4.5 calories) — hardly “negative calorie” territory.

And because the amount of energy expended on digestion of foods is always expressed as a percentage, to have a negative calorie effect, digestion would have to constitute at least 101% of the energy consumed in order to create a negative calorie environment — something which is physically impossible.

So it appears that the food that is the best candidate for qualifying as a negative calorie food — celery – can’t even hit the break-even point, let alone become “calorie-negative.”

No such thing...don't exist.

As long as we're creating negative list, can we add beer? Pretty please?? I'd say with whipped cream and a cherry on top, but they didn't make the cut.

Sorry ... no such luck as negative calories.

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