Why The Blog?

Having had no luck with miracle diet plans and advice from so called experts, I tried to expand my knowledge of diet and nutrition and find my own results. As I gained knowledge I became aware that all is not what it seems.


Recently I've read numerous books and searched many websites, some books date back to the 70's (not much has changed since then). One book in particular "Natural Alternatives To Dieting" by Marilyn Glenville was especially useful. The book was published in 1999, I read the book about 8 years ago, at the time I thought wow ! but did I take the advice and change my lifestyle...No !


"What you do with this knowledge is your choice - one things for sure, you can't say you didn't know".


Please take the time to read the articles...you may be surprised, you may be shocked, but please don't take my word for it...check it out for yourselves, libraries and web browsing won't cost you a penny, just your time.


"If I never questioned what I was told, I wouldn't have been any wiser".


I've gained enough knowledge to bring you this blog site. I don't have all the answers, I'm certainly not an expert but I can signpost you to other online resources that may help.

Saturday 6 September 2008

Negative Calorie Foods

Negative Calorie Foods ~ Vegetables
Asparagus beets broccoli cabbage (green)carrots cauliflower celery chicory chili peppers cucumbers garlic lettuce onions papayas spinach turnip zucchini

Negative Calorie Foods ~ Fruit
Apples cranberries grapefruit lemons mango's oranges pineapple raspberries strawberries tangerines

All foods have some calories. No food is actually "negative calorie" food. The overall effect of certain foods in our body is that of "negative calories". Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories the foods actually contain!


Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to breakdown and process. In other words, the body has to work harder in order to extract calories from these foods. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

A meal consisting of 500 calories may require only 150 calories to be digested by our body, resulting in a net gain of 350 calories which is added to our body fat! According to this theory, for example, if you eat 150 calories of a food that requires 200 calories to digest, then you've burnt an additional 50 calories simply by eating that food.
More info:
http://weightlossinternational.com/newsletter/free-list-of-negative-calorie-foods.html

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