Some negative calorie food that you need to know, to burn your overweight

News24xx.com - Although most of us are well aware of the importance of counting calories, whether you want to lose or gain weight, there are some calories you probably would never have to account for. 

Why? 
Because they burn more calories than they pile on to your body. 

What are negative calorie foods?
Your body has to burn calories to digest anything you put into it. The number of calories a particular food item typically possesses outweighs the energy required to burn it. 

In the case of negative calories foods, your body burns more calories to digest the food.

Which means the more of such foods you eat the more your body ends up burning, without really storing calories as these foods only possess a lower number of calories. 

These are not special foods but what you would call regular, healthy food choices. Some of the foods renowned as some of the best negative calorie foods include :

-Celery: 14 calories per 100 grams
-Carrots: 52 calories per 130 grams
-Lettuce: 5 calories per cup 35 grams
-Broccoli: 31 calories per cup 90 grams
-Cucumbers: 8 calories per cup 50 grams
-Zucchini: 18 calories per 100 gm
-Grapefruit: 69 calories per 230 grams
-Tomatoes: 19 calories per 100 gm
-Watermelon: 30 calories per 100 gm
-Apples: 53 calories per cup 110 grams

Negative calorie foods than of course are useful for people looking to lose weight. Negative calories can be a mainstay in your diet due to their nutrient-rich nature, fat-burning potential and their ability to leave you satiated for hours later. 

You can have them every day of the year due to the flexible nature. 

The evidence that negative calorie foods burn more calories than they pile on to you can be attributed to the following facts

Calories used to digest food

Typically, the energy it takes to digest food, such as carbs is around 5-10% of the total calories you consume, 0-5% of the total calories you get from fat and 20-30% you get from protein. 

Comprising mostly of water and carbs, negative calorie foods require your body to burn off more calories than you ingest. The amount of energy used to burn them, though, is about the same that is used to burn carbs, fats and proteins. 

Calories that you use to chew food

Additionally, chewing more on your foods adds to the energy/calorie expenditure. To give you an idea a relatively small amount of chewing can lead to a caloric burn of about 11 calories per hour. So, chewing fibre-rich foods, such as celery can lead to an additional amount of fat burn. 

Apart from foods, cold water is another such source that can help you increase the number of calories your body burns.  

 

 

 

 

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