Negative Calorie Foods

Negative calorie foods are those which use more calories to digest in our body rather then they might have used normally. To say literally all foods are not negative calorie rather they a good in calorie content, it all depends upon the body how it reacts to the situation while the digestion process is being undertaken inside the abdomen of every individual. These foods make the body to work a lot and stress it to get the calories out of them, so the result is that we will be having a fat content which is very less and chances of reducing our weight less then during obesity.

There are many researches being done on this Negative calorie food concept, to mention here one Dr. Dean Ornish, M.D ., of the University of California , at San Francisco, he made a research by providing a vegetarian food consisting of fruits and vegetables to certain group of people who are suffering from heart disease, to his surprise he found the results that there is a weight loss of nearly 20 pounds without cutting calories or limiting serving sizes. These patients were nearly 40 years old, and another point to note here is that there is no exercise program for the above research subjects.

There are few list of Negative calorie food, to mention a few here are : asparagus, beet, broccoli, green cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery root, celery chicory, hot chili peppers, cucumber, dandelion, endive, garden cress, garlic, green beans, zucchini, apple, cranberries, grape fruit, lemon mangoes, orange, pineapple raspberries, strawberries, tangerine, lamb's lettuce, onion, papaya, radishes, spinach and turnip. A lot of research has been done to categorize that the above mentioned foods come under as Negative Calorie foods.

There are a lot of contradictions regards this concept, though some have done a lot of research and found out that they have some foods that are negative calorie foods many still believe that no such concept exists in this subject related to nutrition and calorie production inside our body. Some say that how can we have any such foods which really take a lot of calorie from our body in order to get themselves digested, if that happens then the individual who takes it must be falling as a prey very easily to many diseases since he will be loosing his energy like anything and will also be a person to decrease his resistance level.