Negative Calorie Foods What Are They

What are negative calorie foods? Sound a bit weird don't they? These foods actually take more calories to digest than can be found in the food in the first place. If you're a little bit confused, don't worry, here's an example to help clear things up.

1. Let's imagine you have a serving of sticky toffee pudding after dinner; it contains 450 calories. In order for your body to digest the pudding it only burns up 125 of those calories. This leaves you with a net gain of 325 calories.

2. Now imagine eating a raw apple; this food contains roughly 55 calories. In order for your body to digest this food, it uses up 70 calories. This time you are left with a net loss of 15 calories.

It sounds like negative calorie foods could be a great idea to help us burn belly fat, right? Let's take a closer look to make sure.

The Negative Calorie Effect

No food actually contains "negative calories"; the name comes from the negative calorie effect. This is what you can see taking place in example 2 above.

So what causes this effect? Well, all foods contain micronutrients (i.e. carbohydrates, protein, fat), vitamins and minerals. The number of calories contained within a food depends on the quantity and structure of these micronutrients.

Once you eat the food, the micronutrients stimulate our cells to produce enzymes that break down (digest) them. The micronutrients in negative calorie foods stimulate so much enzyme production that the fat burning food is broken down completely, and some calories stored by the body are burned too.

It sounds a bit funny, but this is a natural process and it's nothing to be worried about.

Calorie Intake From Natural Foods

I'm going to give you a free list of negative calorie foods in just a moment. And when I do, notice how they are all unprocessed and naturally occurring foods.

If you have been over to my website before you will know just how much I love natural and unprocessed foods. I think they are vital for a strong immune system, not to mention your number one weapon for burning belly fat and losing weight.

I believe that there is no substitute for the naturally occurring nutrients, vitamins and minerals found in these foods. This is the reason why natural foods stimulate a fat burning hormonal response in your body.

Free List Of Negative Calorie Foods

Negative Calorie Fruits: Grapefruit, Oranges, Raspberries,Apples, Strawberries, Mango, Tomato, Blueberries and many more.

Negative Calorie Vegetables: Asparagus, Broccoli, Hot Chilli, Spinach, Onion, Celery, Cabbage, Turnip, and the list goes on...

Did you notice how nutritional all of these foods are too!

Negative Calorie Diet?

If you are burning more calories than you are eating, it seems like an excellent opportunity for us to burn up our fat stores, right? Heck, there is even a negative calorie diet, or zero calorie diet on offer.

One word of warning though, it doesn't matter how many negative calorie foods you eat, you'll never shift your unwanted weight if your diet still includes too many processed, junk foods.

By: truth

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