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What Does the Research Say About Negative Calorie Foods?
Most people consider their calorie intake whenever they’re on a weight gain or loss plan.
Calories are a measure of energy stored in your body tissues or food.
Whenever a person starts a weight loss plan, they are advised to focus on reducing their calorie intake or burning up more of their stored calories through exercise and other forms of physical activity.
Some foods are now trendy in weight loss diet plans because they are considered “negative-calorie.” This means that you get to lose calories when you eat them.
But how true is this?
This article will discuss everything you need to know about negative-calorie foods, including their role in weight loss.
Defining negative-calorie foods
Food provides your body with many nutrients, mainly carbs, fats, and proteins. These three categories of nutrients dole out energy as calories.
Digestion and processing of food require energy. However, the amount of energy needed to digest and process food varies depending on the food (1).
Negative-calorie food means food that takes more calories to eat, digest, and absorb than the food naturally contains and provides to the body.
