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Negative Calorie Foods: Found in Many Diets

By: Stan Towers (Oct 16, 2009 12:22 pm)

Negative calorie foods are an idea that comes up often to anyone who does research online about weight loss. There have been many arguments over this particular weight loss plan, but there's no question that there are many imitators who are basing their dieting plans around some of the same ideas as negative calorie foods.

Many diets are based at least in part (if not entirely) around foods that appear on the negative calorie foods list. This includes the grapefruit diet, pineapple diet, and cabbage soup diet, just to name a few. Obviously vegetarian diets will have a lot in common with negative calorie foods, as well, since all the foods on this list are either fruits or vegetables.

While the pineapple diet has several different forms (and often includes lean meats like tuna), every version of this diet revolves around eating tons of pineapple. Pineapple is one of many fruits found on the negative calorie foods list, and it is often mentioned as an extremely healthy fruit that contains enzymes which are hard for the body to break down, thus encouraging weight loss.

The cabbage soup diet is an extremely popular off shoot of the negative calorie foods diet. The daily soup is almost completely full of only negative calorie foods, and then vegetable broth, to boot. One day also has only fruits on top of the soup, while another has only vegetables. This diet in a ton of ways mimics negative calorie foods.

And the grapefruit diet is yet another example of an eating plan that could have been designed simply by picking out a person's favorite negative calorie food and just running with it. Grapefruit has enormous popularity as a diet food because it is high in water, fiber, and vitamins and low in calories. In addition to all this, grapefruit is notoriously hard for the body to break down and process, forcing your body to work and burn more calories to process it.

Vegetarian diets are going to have large portions that mirror foods found on the negative calorie list because all negative calorie foods are going to be fruits and veggies. The huge difference between the two is that a vegetarian eating plan will be complete and include grains and rice, while the list is there to supplement an eating plan, not be the end all be all of dietary restrictions.

This article only lists a few of the dietary plans that copy a lot from the idea of negative calories. Pretty impressive for something that some people insist on calling a fad, but the proof is in the pudding as the old saying goes - and the diets listed in this article aren't the only ones who get their root idea from the same place.

While the argument is likely to continue, it's hard to argue that the fruits and vegetables on this list are all very healthy and a key part of any eating plan designed to lose weight. No matter what the additional arguments are, imitations show that negative calorie foods are likely to remain popular.

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