If you want to burn fat and lose weight safely, why not take advantage of some of nature’s most perfect foods? These are foods that not only taste great, but work with your body to burn fat and accelerate your weight loss at the same time.
These are called “negative calorie foods” because of the way your body processes them. By eating negative calorie foods, you actually burn fat and see weight loss because your body burns more calories digesting these foods than you actually take in from eating them.
In other words, a dessert containing 450 calories may only take 150 calories for your body to digest. So you have a net gain of 300 calories. But a fresh vegetable that has around 50 calories will take your body 100 calories to digest. So you are burning 50 more calories than you are taking in, resulting in a “negative” caloric intake of 50 calories.
What is a perfect example? An apple. Not only is an apple tasty and good for you (an apple a day, remember) but a medium sized apple puts about 100 calories into your system.
However, you burn around 130 to 150 calories to digest the apple; so you are burning more calories through digestion of the apple than you are taking in from eating it. You actually have a negative caloric intake from eating the apple.
There are several excellent negative calorie foods that you should try and incorporate into your diet on an everyday basis if you want to burn fat and lose weight. And not surprisingly, these foods are some of the healthiest foods you can eat when it comes to weight loss.
However, don’t design a diet using only negative calorie foods. That would not only be boring, but unhealthy for you as well. Why not try and incorporate negative calorie foods as a supplement to what you would normally eat on a daily basis?
For example, instead of that baked potato, why not have some extra broccoli, spinach, or some other leafy greens instead? Substitute that high sugar cereal with some yogurt and fresh blueberries, strawberries, or blackberries.
And everyone has heard of the “grapefruit diet”; the grapefruit diet works because it is another negative calorie food. Sweeten the tartness of grapefruit with a little cinnamon (which helps bump up your metabolism as well).
Substitute salmon for that steak or prime rib; not only is salmon high in protein and omega 3 fats (the good fat), but it is another great negative calorie food that your body craves. And grilled salmon is one of the best tasting fish recipes available to you.
Nuts are a great substitute for candy; replace those Hershey kisses with a handful of almonds or cashews. Nuts are a great source of vegetable protein, and they boost the immune system as well as lowering bad cholesterol levels.
Also, replace those sodas with some green tea. Green tea is loaded with antioxidants, and has a high thermogenic effect which cranks up your metabolism to help burn fat and lose weight as well.
And there is no special green tea you need to get at some health food store. Simple green tea you find at the grocery store will work just fine. If you can’t take the taste of green tea, try some green tea extract available in pill form in the vitamin aisle. Just make sure that you get the 500 mg or higher tablets to get the full benefits of the antioxidants in green tea.
Or try the old standby of simply adding some fresh squeezed lemon to a glass of water. Most citrus fruits are negative calorie foods, and they have a full complement of nutrients that your body needs.
Try and experiment with adding at least one negative calorie food to every meal. You are not going to drop 20 pounds overnight; but over time you will see results in your quest to burn fat and lose weight.
And it will also be a healthy weight loss, since most negative calorie foods are good for your body in the first place.
Robert Spencer
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Difference between eating junk food and eating healthy food?
Okay I’m 14 year old male you exercises regularly, and I’ve got a high motabolism (I burn calories faster then average). So naturally I can eat all the crappiest junk, fatty foods possible and it won’t affect my weight at all.
Eating healthy food:
+ makes you healthier.
+ less exercise needed to stay fit.
+ harder to become overweight.
+ is satisfying to know you are making a good choice.
- MOST of it doesn’t taste as good as junk food.
- fruit can sometimes be more expencive then junk food.
- much more junk food available which is cheaper and nicer.
- can become unhappy if you’re forcing yourself to eat stuff that you hate!
Eating junk food.
+ tastes beautiful and nice.
+ is often cheaper then some fruit.
+ makes you happy!
+ is more available with fast food resteraunts.
- will make you unfit and possibly overweight/obese.
- more exercise is needed to stay fit and burn the extra calories you gain.
- could cause serious health issues in the long run.
Okay, I’m not a super freak on diet (in fact, I know hardly anything about diet and I’m one of the people who don’t eat any vegetables or fruit whatsoever) and so here is the positives and negatives of a teenager. Earlier I asked a question and one of the answers was, "Eat a chocolate mudcake. At least you’ll have a healthier smile." My thanks goes to that person – because it is so true. Eating unhealthy foods doesn’t make you a bad or unhappy person. In fact, eating fatty foods makes you a happier person on the inside =) Go ahead and answer with your opinion on junk food vs healthy food!
duh you dont get fat with veggies
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Healthy food will give you life.
Junk food will take it from you.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
well my method is: As long as it comes back up, or is exersised off, what harmis it? I don;t give a fuck about health, just about my wiehgt…
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well if you are sitting all day long on a sofa (like me) its better to eat healthy food so that you won’t get too much calories. However if you are excercising and more athletik type [like when I was younger(about 5 years)] its is good to eat healthy food but you also have the choice to eat junk food more often.
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Don’t think that skinny people are all healthy just cause their skinny,,, you can watch your weight all you want and eat all the crap all you, just remember when you eat sick and the doctor tell you that your cholesterol is height or you have diabetes, don’t ask the doctor why or how or tell him how you workout all the time, cause that wont help, our body is like a car, fill it up with the right gas and the right amount, it’ll run smooth and you’ll loose the weight quick, but as soon as you put sugar in the tank, you’ll see the difference quick and you’ll see how far it’ll take you… Good luck to all!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I had a very good friend. He was a very great athlete. Training, running races, training…. and of course with his regular exercise routine, he could eat anything he wanted and never gain a pound. At least so he thought. As a young man, he had no interest in cooking and of course french fries always sounded better than celery sticks to him. So he enjoyed fast food and sodas and Twinkies and donuts, etc. .
He enjoyed his life… or at least the 23 years of it. He died of a heart attack at the age of 24. He had no previous health problems, no history of heart disease in the family. There were no warning signs. He went from being great to being dead in a matter of minutes.
Weight is not the only thing you need to be concerned about. Even though obesity causes many health problems, being skinny does not mean being healthy. It surely helps but it does not prevent you from heart issues, diabetes and other potentially lethal conditions.
Only combination of healthy diet and exercise can dramatically improve your chances for long term health. You are only 14. Your body is still developing and has certain nutrition needs, especially if you exercise on regular bases. Junk food can’t provide this nutrition, no matter how good it tastes to you.
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