Probably, everyone who is at least a little fond of diets and tries to monitor their diet has heard about this concept. Food with a minus calorie content is that food for the absorption of which much more energy is spent than in this food.
Most vegetables are examples. Cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes … The calorie content of all these products is negligible, and a considerable amount of energy is spent on processing.
It is worth mentioning the existence of foods whose calorie content is zero. These include a variety of sugar substitutes and all types of greens. There are no starch sugars in their composition, but cellulose replaces them, which cannot be absorbed by humans.
Will eating food with a minus calorie content really help in losing weight?
Let's take an example: one medium-sized cucumber contains about twenty kilocalories. During its absorption, the body will spend twenty-five calories. Can the lost five calories help you shed a few extra pounds? Naturally not.
Yes, the calorie content of the total daily diet will decrease significantly, but does this make sense? In all foods that have negative calories, the amount of kilojoules of energy is also incredibly low. You will have to eat a huge amount of food with a negative calorie content, so that the energy obtained from them becomes equal to the energy available, for example, in a pair of chicken legs. When proteins are absorbed, approximately 35-45 percent of the calories they contain are spent. For fats and carbohydrates, these numbers are much more modest - about 6 percent.
An important note: when eating proteins, in order for them to be properly absorbed and useful, and deposited in fat in unnecessary places, it is imperative to play sports. When eating food with a minus calorie content, sport is not necessary, but this plus is absolutely not significant, in comparison with the disadvantages described above.
Foods effective in losing weight with minus calorie content
Yes, yes, in spite of everything, they are! The most useful product with a minus calorie content is drinking water. Everyone knows that she has absolutely no calories. This miraculous product helps to cleanse the body of harmful substances, reduce weight and burn calories, and speed up metabolism. It is necessary to drink at least two liters of clean drinking water per day without impurities in order for this to bring real benefits. It is useful to drink hot water or, conversely, ice cold. This will burn even more calories.
Another such product is green tea. Minuscule amount of calories - about ten in a circle. And it takes about forty to digest. But you can also drink it with ice cubes.
In conclusion, it must be said that it is still necessary to consume food with a minus calorie content, but only in combination with proteins at the main meals.
