Calorie-burning foods and calorie-burning fruits are negative calorie foods! This means that these foods actually burn calories! Find a full list here.
Everyone has heard about the mysterious menace that is causing mayhem all over the world: the dreaded calorie. People shy away from this sneaky culprit of weight gain and an unhealthy lifestyle. Of course, the truth is that we all need calories to survive. The calorie is the basic energy unit of every single thing we consume. The problem arises when we eat more calories than we are burning in aerobic activity. To solve this problem, you may wish to consider adding some foods to your diet that actually, believe it or not, BURN calories!
Calorie Burning Foods
It sounds bizarre: a food that actually burns calories inside the body. Truthfully, though, all food requires the body to burn calories. Don’t be shocked; we know it sounds crazy. However, the body must burn calories to digest all the food that we eat. It’s difficult for the stomach to churn and produce the necessary enzymes required to turn all the food we eat into usable energy and nutrients: it requires a great deal of energy. However, there are some foods that require more calories to digest than the calories they actually provide. These are what are considered calorie burning foods or negative calorie foods.
Negative Calorie Foods
Don’t worry, you aren’t going to have to travel to the far reaches of the earth to seek out these magical foods that actually burn calories. In fact, many Americans are probably already eating these foods on a weekly, if not daily, basis. The key is to try to incorporate more negative calorie foods into your diet while eliminating some of the troublesome foods, like white bread, that deposit large amounts of calories into your body that will go unused.
Popular diets such as the Atkin’s diet have already made use of these negative calorie foods or calorie burning foods. High protein and low carbohydrate foods such as meat, eggs and vegetables have a negative caloric effect. This is because these foods stimulate the body’s metabolism, causing it to reach down into its caloric stores (or fat deposits) in order to complete the digesting process. Some examples of common calorie burning foods include:
Vegetables: Almost all vegetables have negative caloric properties. Asparagus, cauliflower, celery, broccoli, onion, spinach, zucchini, radishes and cucumbers all require more energy to digest than they have calories.
Fruits: Many fruits are also calorie burning foods. The very common fruits such as apples, lemons, limes, oranges and strawberries as well as special fruits like papaya, honeydew, pineapple, and grapefruit are all calorie burning foods. Bananas, however, are not!
Spicy Peppers: Spicy foods jump start your body’s metabolism by accelerating the rate of your heart. You can burn calories by eating jalapenos or habaneros with your meal!
Liquids: Some liquids actually count as calorie burning foods. Tea and coffee for example help to jump start the metabolism.
From Diet Plan, post A List of Calorie-Burning Foods
