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What are negative calorie foods?

Many people want to lose weight and still can not succeed in spite of dieting and doing exercises.  That is because they do not understand the calories provided by the foods they eat and the calories needed to digest the foods.   Negative calorie foods are the ones which use up more energy to digest food than the energy they actually provide.  Celery which is high cellulose , low nutrient,  high fiber food is an example of negative calorie food as it requires more calories to digest celery than the energy it provides. Though negative calorie foods provide some calories, but most of the calories do not convert into fat.  So negative calorie foods are a natural remedy for fat loss.

Importance of negative calorie foods in losing fat?

If you have a piece of cake which contains 300 Calories, then our body requires only 100 Calorie to digest it, as a result you gain of 200 calories which get accumulated in our body fat!

Whereas, if you have celery which contains 6 calorie then the amount of calories required to digest it is much higher as a result instead of gaining you will lose some of your body fats.  Now buy applying this formula if you eat food which contains 150 calories, but requires 200 calories to digest it then you burn around 50 calories just by eating food.  So here the suitable phase is the more you eat, the more you lose your weight.

Due to this advantage, negative calorie foods are helpful for loosing weight naturally without dieting.

All foods contain vitamins, calories, nutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, minerals and fats).  Living tissues are stimulated by vitamins to produce enzymes which breakdown the caloric nutrients of food.

The negative calorie foods contain adequate minerals and vitamins, so that they produce enzymes in large quantities which can break down calories not only produced by them but also the calories accumulated from other sources as well.  This type of effect is termed as “negative calorie effect”.

Negative Calorie Diet

According to the negative calorie diet, to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than what you actually consume.  We have provided a list of some of the negative calorie fruits and vegetables, but to have the maximum benefit of these negative calories foods, you should avoid junk foods altogether.

Negative Calorie Vegetables are
Turnip
Asparagus
Broccoli
Cabbage
Beet Root
Carrot
Celery Chicory
Hot Chili
Cauliflower
Garden cress
Cucumber
Garlic
Lettuce
Onion
Green Beans
Radish
Zucchini
Spinach

Negative Calorie Fruits are

Watermelon
Apple
Cantaloupe
Lemon/Lime
Tangerine
Cranberry
Blueberries
Grapefruit Honeydew
Mango
Peach Pineapple
Orange
Strawberry
Papaya
Raspberry
Tomato

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