Negative Calorie Diets
What is a Negative Calorie
Diet
A negative calorie diet is
based on the theory that certain foods burn more calories than they contain.
(Hence they are referred to as negative calorie foods.) As our calorie-intake
drops, so we lose weight. Supporters of the negative calorie diet say
that you can literally eat your way to weight loss.
Negative Calorie Diet -
Pure Sales Hype?
Critics of negative calorie
diets argue that no food causes us to burn more calories that it contains,
otherwise such foods would have long ceased to be part of the food chain
and that the notion we can eat our way to weight loss is pure sales hype.
In reply, advocates of negative
calorie diets - while conceding that there are no foods which contain
negative calories - maintain that by eating certain foods we will increase
the metabolic processes which results in weight loss.
Negative Calorie Diet Truth
Perhaps a balanced view is
that insofar as negative calorie diets encourage the consumption of fresh
fruit and vegetables (for whatever reason), and recommend the consumption
of smaller, more regular meals, (both of which will speed up our metabolism)
they are to be welcomed. Not as a complete solution to weight loss but
as a part of the weight loss puzzle.
See also Foods
That Burn Calories
For calorie details of 2500
Foods, see Calories
in Foods
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