One of the most popular food fads that has attracted everyone’s attention recently is the concept of negative-calorie foods. According to this theory, you can eat these foods as much as you want without gaining any weight. This is because digesting these foods consumes more calories than they are inherent. Therefore, the calorie addition is cancelled.
This does not mean that these negative-calorie foods contain no calories, but that your body eventually burns more calories than you consume. A win-win situation. Isn’t it? The famous Bangalore nutritionist Dr. Anju Sood explained: “We divide calories into two categories. Empty calories and negative calories. Empty calories are those calories that generate a lot of calories when consumed (the main sources are fast food and refined sugar).
These have no nutritional value. Another type of negative calories comes from nutritious and low-calorie foods. If you want to lose weight, adding them to your diet is great, because your body does need a minimum of calories to produce energy and maintain.” “High-fiber foods or low-glycemic index foods can be called negative-calorie foods.
High-fiber foods serve two purposes. Our body takes longer to expel fiber from the body, so they stay in the body and delay hunger. And secondly, these zero-calorie foods release sugar very slowly, so the chance of becoming fat is very low,” Dr. Su De said.
News Source : NDTV Food
