Saturday, November 24, 2012

Negative Calorie Foods

Another confusing subject:

The idea behind negative calorie foods, is that one burns more calories digesting the food than the food itself contains. For example, celery and ice water are are commonly listed as 'negative calorie foods.'

This is not the case. The calories that the body burns during digestion are taken into account when the nutritional information is written. That number of calories is determined by how much time a piece of food takes for our bodies to burn food (literally. scientists light food on fire and measure the time that it takes to burn)... so there is no such thing as a negative calorie food.

Weight: 114 113 112 111 110 109 108 107 106105 104 103 102 101 100 99 98 97 96 95
Height: 5'4"

2 comments:

  1. I LOVE YOU for clearing that up. Hope you are doing okay, little lovely xxx

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  2. I'm glad that it was helpful!

    I'm alright, apart from feeling rather rotund. My anti-crazy pills have been a bit detrimental (to say the least) to the weight loss plight.

    I hope that you're well as well. <3

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