Here’s The Ideal Source of Foods That Speed Up Your Metabolism
April 22, 2009 by Dan Eitreim
Filed under Diet
Any diet that even comes close to being healthy, will tell you to eat plenty of vegetables. But what kind of vegetables should we be eating to get foods that speed up your metabolism?
To boost our metabolism, as part of a healthy, balanced dietmost any type of vegetable will do the job. But if you really want to see the weight start pouring off of you, you need to start considering calories.
Calories are easy to understand, if you think of them as energy.
Whenever you eat something, it doesn’t matter what it is, it will give your body calories. Whether it’s a stalk of celery or a candy bar, everything gives us calories. Our body has to do something with all these calories. It will burn them if it needs some energy. If no energy is needed, they get stored as fat.
We can’t cut back too much on calories since that would slow our metabolism. We’re looking for foods that speed up your metabolism, so we need to boost our calorie usage rather than cut back on intake. In other words, we need to find foods that speed up your metabolism but still don’t provide enough energy. That’s when we will see our fat beginning to disappear.
What if we could find a way to keep our metabolism chugging away – at full speed – and still not have enough energy? Then, our body would get the extra energy it needs from fat. (And we get skinny.)
Enter negative calorie foods.
Negative calorie foods are like an edible version of a jog around the park. You are still getting all the nutrients you need, your metabolism is still working at full speed and yet you still have a deficit of energy – which your body provides by burning fat calories.
Eating foods that speed up your metabolism – and make you lose weight at the same time – makes dieting a lot of fun. Wouldn’t you agree?
By now, you are probably wondering what negative calorie foods are?
All of our various bodily functions require energy. In other words you need a certain amount of calories just to digest food.
A negative calorie food is one that gives us a certain number of calories but burns more calories just in being digested. With negative calorie foods, in theory, you could eat all day and still lose weight.
Here’s an example. A typical piece of broccoli (that is about 100 grams) gives us about 25 calories when we eat it. However, it uses up about 80 calories just to digest. So you have a net loss of 55 calories every time you eat a piece of broccoli.
Good stuff, eh?
Here are a few vegetables that are negative calorie foods…
Garlic, asparagus, zucchini, green beans, Garden cress, beet root, turnip, lettuce, broccoli, spinach, onion, cabbage, radish, carrot, cucumber, cauliflower, celery, chicory, hot chili.
Plus, there’s a bunch more. Think about it, it would be scientifically and physically impossible not to lose weight if you were eating a negative calorie diet. To get a lot more information, check out my website.
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