Are there foods with negative calories?
What we know examples of diet strategies for the prevention and treatment of obesity? The goal is often the portion size; Reduce portion size is an important element of many diet programs. However, it is not easy to get people to eat less food. Migration can be a more effective solution emphasis from serving size the quality of the diet. Choosing foods with fewer calories, we can keep the amount consumed, or portions even increase while still losing weight. There are some foods with negative calories, that is, food that costs more energy to digest than it provides us?
For example, it leads to the consumption of celery stalks to a negative energy balance? Celery is an easily accessible whole food, which has the ability to add food to taste and volume without adding of excess calories.
A celery stalk is also the subject of a famous health myth, that it was consumed we achieve a “negative” calorie intake. People who say this assume that the energy needed to digest it, storage and storage of nutrients is greater, than the one he can give us. The researchers decided to test it.
Cup of celery – about two petioles – has 16 calories. Digestion of this amount requires about 14 calories. So no, the consumption of celery does not lead to negative energy balance; but you only have 2 calories left. This fact together with high water and fiber content makes celery celery a good snack. Celery can be included in the diet, even if you are trying to lose weight.
The truth is that meals with negative calories do not have to be just a myth. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University they offered people pasta dishes they could eat as much as they wanted. Here you can see how many calories they ate. If unlimited portion of pasta added a little salad to people, What do you think happened? The extra 50 calories were added from salad to calories from eaten pasta? No, because overall they ate less pasta. It wasn’t just about 50 calories, they ate 65 calories less. When researchers offered them a bigger salad, people ate 100 calories less. Practically, the salad provided “negative calories.” They had a salad in addition to how many pasta they ate.
So they ate more food and received less calories because their stomach filled with salad. Of course, it depends on what salad it is. These were not typical salads sold with heavy mayonnaise dressing and cheese.
If you add the right salad to your meal, you eat less pasta in the end, but there are so many calories in conventional salads, that in the end you would be worse off with calories than without it. However, healthy salads to work. The researchers concluded that “eat less” is not always the best advice, as regards low calorie foods, such as vegetables with a high water content – for example salad.
Larger portions of these foods mean more satiety, greater sense of fullness while reducing calorie intake.
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