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| Negative-Calorie Food |
Negative Calorie Diets comprise mainly of foods known as the negative calorie foods. These are foods that take up more caloric energy to digest then the calories that are in them.
Your body has to expend energy in order to digest and absorb foods, in fact, 10% of your daily caloric intake is used to process foods in your body. So these "negative" calorie foods are foods that take more calories to digest then actual calories in the item of food.
Negative calorie diets have also been the center of much debate. Some studies reveal such diets to be advantageous, while some suggest that these do help in weight loss but at a cost.
For instance, there are certain experts who say that negative calorie foods not only contain sufficient vitamins & minerals to break down the host calories there is actually a surplus of enzyme-producing biochemicals.
On the contrary, most experts say that such foods do not provide sufficient energy causing weakness and subsequently other diseases. For this reason, dieticians generally do not recommend a high intake of negative-calorie foods.
A balanced quantity can work well but like proteins excessive quantities can be a major hazard. As a thumb rule, your diet should consist of a maximum of 2% of negative calorie foods.
Given below is a list of vegetables and fruits high in negative calories.
Vegetables
- Asparagus
- Celery
- Lettuce
- Beet
- Onion
- Cabbage
- Cucumber
Fruits
- Mango
- Raspberries
- Pineapple
- Strawberries
- Lemon
Weight Loss by fasting - Starvation Diets
Starvation Diets are based on the principle of burning far more calories than you eat. These diets generally aim at losing 1000 to 1500 calories in quick time. Although, you may achieve weight loss initially with such diets, you generally are always hungry.
When your body senses (or believes) it's getting less food than it usually does, it's "self-preservation" switch is triggered.
Because your body believes it's about to starve, the first thing it does is shut down its fat-burners to preserve fuel (fat).That's why you burn so few calories, so slowly, on "starvation" diets.
Moreover, it is very much possible that in spite of burning a high number of calories by starving yourself, you may still end up gaining weight.
There are some starvation diets that have such an effect. On the contrary, there are other diets that actually profess consuming 3000 to 4000 calories and still yield very positive results.
Starving only promotes a bigger "rebound" effect because your body likes to hold on from what it is deprived of. Instead, you should fuel your body every 2 to 3 hours with small meals.
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