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Top fat reducing foods | List of negative calorie foods

Posted By asghar555 on Aug 05, 2009 FROM: diet.lovetoknow.com report abuse

We all know that all foods contain high or low calorie. I will provide you a list of negative calories foods below, but first let us consider what this means. There is no such thing as a negative calorie - a calorie is a unit of heat and it cannot be negative. It just means that a food whose calorie level is low enough that it takes more energy to eat and digest it than the food contains.

1 calorie = 4.184 joule
1 negative calorie = -4.184 joules
Commonly Calories refer to kilo calories.
1 kilo calorie (kcal) = 4.184 kilojoules (kJ)

Fat Reducing Foods:

Negative calorie foods are very efficient in quick and long-term weight loss. The calories provided by these foods are much harder for the body to use. In simple words, the body has to work hard in order to extract calories from these foods. Even though foods may contain equal amount of calories, much less of these calories can possibly turn into fat in fat burning foods (negative calorie foods) as fewer calories are actually available to the body. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.

The food which you eat helps to boost your metabolism. The metabolism in your body decides whether your body will store the food you eat as fat, or will be used for energy, or is considered waste. Eating foods that help promote as faster metabolism will in return help you lose more fat because your body will need the food for energy. Portion size varies among different foods. This should be taken into consideration before planning a meal.