Re: Re: Negative Calories

[Guest guest]

... hon ... it was supposed to be funny. Think about it ...

(How many calories do I burn throwing up my hands and shaking my head?)

Eury

Re: Negative Calories

What exactly is celery supposed to help you do?

By negative cals I believe that means that it takes more calories to

cew and digest celery then there are calories in the celery itself.

This does not mean that if you eat celery it will cancel out the

calories of other foods you have eaten.

[Guest guest]

PS ... you may also laugh at the fact that I just realized my spell-checker is

mal-functioning.

Eury with egg on her face ... fat free and hard boiled, of course.

[Guest guest]

Well, dang it all. Somebody beat me to the punch and set themselves up to sell

e-books to the masses. *sigh* (LOL)

It seems there's a lot of information on the web that isn't backed by hard

science, and negative calories per se is one. It's a case of taking a little

bit of truth, and interpreting it to mean something that really isn't entirely

true. For example -- if you were to stick a banana in your ear, and limit your

calories to 1,000 while exercising, you'd probably lose weight (at least until

your metabolism slowed down) but it wouldn't be the banana that caused the

weight loss. Yet some lovely entrepreneur could probably make a ton of cash

selling the great " Banana in the Ear Diet Plan! " on the web, and that's no joke.

OR maybe do BFL wearing pink shorts and call it the Pink Shorts Diet? (LOL)

I'm not a biochemist, and I don't play one on TV, but it's not rocket science to

figure out that water-rich and fiber-rich foods (like celery, leafy greens, low

glycemic index fruits, etc.) take up more room in the stomach and lead to a

feeling of fullness with fewer calories going in than calorie dense or empty

calorie foods like cake, ice cream, candy, pastry, pie, egg nog, etc. Yet so

many diet books have been written on this concept it's unreal. Probably the two

" best " (in my opinion) of this particular take are Eat More Weigh Less and

Volumetrics. There was a really in-depth book written by a couple of scientists

who were interested in life extension back around the late 60's early 70's that

gave lots of ways to increase calorie burn on a daily basis -- they included

things like wearing loose clothing with wide necklines to allow more body heat

to escape, and drinking all your water as ice cold as you could manage, and of

course, increasing your consumption of water-dense foods being sure to chill

them, again to increase the calories burned by having to warm the foods/water to

body temperature. I did it all ... nearly froze my fanny off walking outdoors

without a jacket.

Also In the 60's there was a soup touted by Weight Watchers lovingly called

" suicide soup " based on this very " negative calorie " idea ... it was a vegetable

soup that was so low in calories to volume, that it was said you could starve to

death eating it. I don't know about that, but it was delicious as I recall.

I am surprised that nobody has come up with the Rabbit Diet using rabbit meat as

the main protein source since it's so danged low in fat and high in clean

protein that it makes chicken look really bad in comparison. Come to think of

it, and I'm not joking here although it may sound as if I am what with me being

cheeky and all, I did read about people who starved to death eating wild rabbit

because it was so low in fat and calories ... but maybe it was because they just

didn't catch enough of them.

As I looked over the Negative Calorie Diet website, I couldn't help but think of

PT Barnum saying there's a customer born every minute.

Now if y'all will excuse me, I think I may have to write that rabbit diet book

and see how many customers I can find. If I find enough, maybe I can afford a

stomach staple AND liposuction! LOL

(that part was intended as a joke.)

Eury

Re: Negative Calories

There is actually a negative calorie diet. I just found it. In case

you're interested.

http://www.negativecaloriediet.com/?hop=flightwave