Negative Calorie Diet Review

 

The Negative Calorie Diet is based on the pretence that you eat food that has negative calories (Catabolic Diets). The only problem with this is that all foods contain calories.

"Negative Calorie Foods" are foods that take up more caloric energy to digest then the calories that are in them. Your body has to expend energy in order to digest and absorb foods, in fact, 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. So these "negative" calorie foods are foods that take more calories to digest then actual calories in the item of food. Foods such as asparagus, broccoli, beets, cabbage (green), cauliflower, clams, cerlery root, chile peppers (hot) cucumber, dandelion, carrots, endive, garden cress, garlic, papaya, radishes, spinach, turnip, zucchini, cranberries, apples, oranges, lettuce, grapefruit, pineapples, tangerines, strawberries, raspberries, and onions are just a some of the foods that you can eat that take more energy to consume than the calories that are in the foods.

One thing to remember, negative calorie foods are eaten in their natural state, if you cook, add butter, and other things to them it changes the caloric makeup of the food. In addition, this diet plan is very restrictive to just fruits and vegetables. This would be very hard to stick to if you were not a committed vegitarian.