![]() ![]() So if you eat lots of them, you will burn extra calories without even lifting a finger. and owner of Abby Langer Nutrition in Toronto, tells SELF they don’t-no food does. By Heather Doran Celery Cupcakes: A dieters dream A popular diet belief is that there are some amazing diet wonderfoods that contain negative calories, like celery. Some people think things like watermelon and chicken breast fall into that category, too. However, the idea of 'negative calorie foods' is. This means that your body has to expend more energy. Youve probably known someone who consumed insane amounts of celery because digesting it required more calories than the food contained. It is often thought that foods like celery, lettuce, and broccoli-foods that are super low-cal, replete with water, and/or tough to chew-actually give you a net calorie burn as you eat them. Negative calorie foods are foods that require more energy to digest than the calories they contain. There’s no food you can eat that subtracts calories from your body,” Brigitte Zeitlin, M.P.H., R.D., C.D.N., founder of the New York-based BZ Nutrition, tells SELF. Alas, calorie-free dairy is a nutritional unicorn, only slightly more when-pigs-fly than the popular but misguided notion of negative-calorie foods, or foods that burn more calories than they contain. The concept of negative calorie food has recently been popularized by the media, around on Internet discussion boards, and from publications, such as Foods that Cause You to Lose Weight: The Negative Calorie Effect, by Neal D. On my most recent birthday, one of my closest friends texted me a message that included the particularly sweet well-wish, “I hope you have the most beautiful day, and you get a kitten, and you find out cheese has no calories.” That cheese bit would change my life, and probably yours, too, but sadly, it’s not meant to be. Myth: Your body uses more calories to digest certain types of foods, called negative calorie foods, than the actual calories contained in them. ![]()
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