Negative Calorie food?

ImCasual
ImCasual Posts: 11
edited October 5 in Health and Weight Loss
What are your views on Negative Calorie foods and do you think they actually work?

For those that don't know:
It's when a food takes more energy (calories) to digest, than the actual piece of food, therefore, you lose calories when you eat it.

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  • vsyates
    vsyates Posts: 373 Member
    Don't believe there is such a thing. Pretty sure this is an urban myth.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    just remember to log everything anyway as digestion is already calculated in your daily activity level, so even a negative calorie food needs to be logged as the digestion portion is already considered, so you need the intake portion to be added to have the full picture.
  • kristilovescake
    kristilovescake Posts: 669 Member
    I just eat them because I consider them low calorie snacks. I log them in my diary and account for them in my daily calorie allowance.

    Don't buy into any hype; exercise and eat healthy and stay under your calorie goals and you WILL lose weight. There aren't any tricks.
  • NicLiving
    NicLiving Posts: 261 Member
    Rubbish!!!
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Let's assume it's possible. You'd probably be talking about -5 calories at most. It just doesn't matter.
  • cinder701
    cinder701 Posts: 94
    what would be an example of a negative calorie food? I have never hear of such a thing before
  • BlessedMoon
    BlessedMoon Posts: 65 Member
    Check this out...

    http://www.naturalnews.com/030912_negative-calorie_foods_burn_fat.html
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    what would be an example of a negative calorie food? I have never hear of such a thing before
    Celery is one that they always mention. There are some others. I don't believe it though.
  • SandyBaldwin
    SandyBaldwin Posts: 12 Member
    I have read that celery, strawberries and apples are.
  • FitasBarbie
    FitasBarbie Posts: 141 Member
    If there is such a thing as negative calorie foods why can't it be ice cream or chocolates or pizza for crying out loud. Life is soooo unfair! :sad:
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,222 Member
    Let me know when pizza hits the list, I'm in.
  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    Ex-Lax, Miralax, Dulcolax.. I'm sure there are others, its just that these are all I can remember right now.
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