Health: What Are Negative Calories?

What Are Negative Calories?

Written by Tanya Zilberter , PhD

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series: "Diet and Body Coverage." It first appeared at dietandbody.com/Negative_calorie_1.html ----------- Chances are that you are familiar with extremely popular Negative Calorie Diet (tm) attracting online dieters by repparttar 114989

NEGATIVE CALORIE idea. Recently, it became clear (at least to me) that repparttar 114990

foods, which can be called "negative calorie foods" come in two shapes. One is pure low-fat, low energy density, high-fiber foods. Another group looks opposite in every respect except it also can qualify for having negative calorie effect. How can it be? Let's start with repparttar 114991

"older" group.

Catabolic Food It all started back in 1935 when repparttar 114992 term "Catabolic food" was first used by Dr. Victor Lindlahr who practiced in Chicago and broadcasted his nutrition progam. The term refered to foods that had, what he called, "reverse calories" (now known as negative calories.) Dr. Lindlahr asked listeners of his radio broadcast to test his new diet and report back to him repparttar 114993 results.

Almost 26,000 listeners did report back with an average one pound of body weight lost per day for ten days.

So, there is such thing as negative calorie food? If consuming these foods results in overall negative calorie balance - you burn more calories than you consume - then YES, there is such a thing. But how can one tell before repparttar 114994 foods are eaten day after day and body weight is lost indeed?

Anabolism, Catabolism, and Energy Balance It takes carefully matching caloric intake to caloric expenditure to maintain proper energy stores.

Save Money and Reduce Fat

Written by Dr. Donald A. Miller

I mentioned elsewhere that soybeans have all repparttar

essential proteins and fats we need for health. Also I have read that a piece of land producing soybeans for direct consumption can support at least 20 times as many people as repparttar 114988

same land producing meat by feeding livestock.

I have applied this knowledge by substituting soybeans or tofu or tempeh for about half repparttar 114989 meat I formerly used in such dishes as stews, meat and eggs, and so forth.

If you are serious about losing weight, but don't want to feel hunger, put a lot of unprocessed vegetables and fruits into your menus, and replace a third to a half of your four legged meat items with traditional soy foods. Also, cut out all refined sugars, limit alcohols, be sure to eat whole grain foods. And make a very rude noise at anyone who says to eat "low carb".

Lets look at those suggestions in terms of money. At retail stores, soybeans are now around US $1 per pound, and beef cuts range from about US $2 to US $15 per pound.

Another comparison is that soy foods have zero saturated fats, but beef cuts frequently often run from 10 to 50 percent saturated fat.

Center for Science in repparttar 114990 Public Interest, with reports on-line at www.cspinet.org, tells us "USDA allows ground beef labels to make claims that would be illegal on other foods." "Ground beef accounts for 45 percent of repparttar 114991 beef sold in repparttar 114992 U.S. and it adds more fat -- and more artery clogging saturated fat -- to repparttar 114993 average American's diet than any other single food." "The USDA allows no more than 10 percent fat by weight in most foods that are labeled 'lean.' But repparttar 114994 USDA allows ground beef that is up to 22.5 percent fat to be called 'lean.'

I recently did repparttar 114995 following junior science experiment. I placed a pound of soybeans in a glass dish with more than an equal amount of water. After letting them soak awhile, I had to add more water to cover. This happened again, so I had to transfer all to a larger pot. About an hour of soaking seemed to be enough, so I added enough water to cover repparttar 114996 beans about an inch, placed repparttar 114997 pot on a stove burner set to medium heat. When repparttar 114998 pot started to boil over, I reduced heat to repparttar 114999 minimum setting. After a cooking time of about 90 minutes, I withdrew a small bowl of repparttar 115000 beans. I had added nothing else to repparttar 115001 pot, so I could later play with flavorings a cupful at a time.

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