The Negative Calorie Diet: Fact Or Fiction?

The theory behind the negative calorie diet is that certain food types effectively contain negative calories and that by eating the right foods you can lose weight quickly and easily. Whether this is a good technique or not remains to be seen. In fact, this is a hugely controversial claim as there are no foods that actually contain "negative calories" leading to claims that the diet name is misleading. We find out if the negative calorie diet really works or if it is nothing more than marketing hype.

How Does The Negative Calorie Diet Work?

Although no food contains "negative calories" as such, many foods contain very few calories and all food requires energy to eat and digest. Quite simply, this means that there are cirtain foods that require more energy to digest than they give, resulting in a net loss in calories - a negative calorie effect

Unlike many diets, this one is very healthy consisting nutrient rich foods including a lot of fruit and vegetables.

This all sounds great if it works, i diet where you can eat as much as you want and still save weight. Of course, we've all heard similar stories and critics of this diet insist that there is no scientific proof that this method works.

As with all diets, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and we decided to round up a few volunteers to find out once and for all if this acclaimed diet really works.

Our three volunteers all started the diet on the same day and maintained it for 8 weeks and all three of them lost weight! The negative calorie diet claims that loosing over 10 pounds a week is possible but our three subjects lost an average of 2 pounds a week over the 8 week peroid. Although this doesn't match the diet's extraordinary claims, it is a signficant amount of weight loss at a healthy rate and proves once and for all that the negative calorie diet does work.