Do Negative Calorie Foods Exist?

There’s been a lot of talk lately about negative calories foods and how eating them help you rapidly lose weight and burn fat.

What Are Negative Calorie Foods? 
Negative calorie foods are essentially foods which require more energy from the body to digest them (aka thermic effect) then the food actually provides, thus a negative calorie effect. With this theory, you could potentially eat large quantities of these negative calorie foods, feel full and yet lose weight fast. Sounds good doesn’t it?

Do Negative Calorie Foods Exist?
Actually there are no foods that have been scientifically proven to be truly negative in calories so negative calorie food is a bit of an urban myth. Why? Well, the main reason they don’t actually exist is because our body is just such an amazingly efficient digestive machine. Even celery that is often quoted as possessing negative calories actually only requires 10% of the energy it provides in order to be digested by our bodies.

Low Calorie Foods
Despite the fact that negative or zero calorie foods do not exist, there are a number of extremely low calorie foods that do and eating them as the bulk of your diet can have excellent weight loss results. Though these foods do not provide negative calories per se, in the end they don’t actually have to in order to still be effective in fat loss. Why? The main reason for this is your body has to burn calories just to stay alive! Did you know for example that at least 1000 calories per day are burned just by sitting and breathing. When you take into account your regular routine of every-day tasks and depending on your gender and weight, you’ll be up to at least 2000 calories. Add in some brisk walks or aerobic exercise and you can be burning well over 2500 or even 3000 calories easily. So even if you’re eating low calorie foods versus no calorie foods, you can still burn a lot of fat and lose weight quickly.

List of Low Calorie Foods
Here are some low calorie foods to add into your diet. These foods are loaded with vitamins and minerals and yet contain very few calories. Some are even considered to fat burning foods, or fat burning fruits.