The Negative Calorie Myth

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The Only Negative Calorie Foods That Actual l y Work

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The Only Negat iv e Ca lorie Foods

That Act u a l l y Work

Before I even broach the topic, I think an explanation of negative calories is

merited: it is any food that requires more energy to be digested than it

provides.

Now let us label this mystical ‘chow’ as X . What is X ? ?

Let’s give an example to demystify X . X is a food that contains 100 calories of

energy but takes 200 calories to digest. This basically means you can eat as

much X as you want and still lose weight. Sounds too good to be true? Well it

kind of is.

My search through countless volumes of information and internet portals

reveals that such a food is as real as Hogwarts. The reason this concept is

flawed is that most foods require almost no energy to digest. Let’s take celery

for example; a stalk of celery provides 6 kcal of energy and needs only 0.5 kcal

of energy to be digested. An excess of 1000%!

In fact all the foods claimed to be negative calorie suffer the same fate

Gra p e f r uit Lemon

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App le Le t t u ce

Br occol i

A ll requiring much less calories to digest than the energy they provide.

But these foods may actually cause weight loss by giving less energy per

volume of the food compared to other foods like pastry, cake or even rice. But

isn’t that obvious??

App les vs Egg

puf f s Cel e r y vs

Cake

Anyway, I decided to pool my entire medical prowess and give you a true

negative calorie food. But before you decide on starting any type of diet, I would

suggest you to speak to your dietician or talk to a doctor online and find out

whether these particular foods are suitable for your health or not.

1 . Ispa ghu l a – This is husk that can just bloat your stomach and make you

feel full and give you zero calories. It is literally not absorbable by the gut.

2 . Col d wa te r – This is good too. Cold water will need to be warmed and

will cause you to lose weight. Also water has no calories so that is an

added benefit.