Negative Calories, Empty Calories, Fact and Myth...

[Evilcyber]

Great video! Yep, a calorie is a calorie.

People go on negative calorie diets, lose weight and think, "heah it's working", where in reality the "negative calorie foods" simply contained a lot less calories than their usual food and still filled them up.

[favea]

awe sis I love your medical advise and input... I mean I kinda knew that before but it's good to get a scientic answer.

500 cals vegatables and 500 cals chocolate... you gain/lose the same amount of weight (depending what else you've eaten that day/made sports), the only difference is what else is in there. the one is healthier for your body as the other. simple calculation there :)

love you hon xoxo

[beautywithin85]

thanks sweets I just got told I was making it all up. ARGH.

Yeah cals are cals we really should stop worrying about them.

[littlemisskeira86]

I never bought into the whole "negative cal" theory.

I always figured that the energy used in digestion was already accounted for in the BMR of a person so it seemed improbable to be able to work out that celery (or other neg cal foods) took x kJ to digest.

Great video!

[beautywithin85]

yep that's the one major problem with it, the other thing is that bulk of celery is not actually digested more kinda passed along the assembly line more like.

xoxoxo

[LilTeaBag]

Just a queation than... 2000cal of celeri still contains 0%fat while 2000% of anormal diet should contain some. Wouldnt one still lose a bit of wait by eating 2000cal of celeri? Its kinda radical, kinda cleansing, even if its enough calories. I dunno maybe Im wrong, but I thought one would lose some fat. Ah! Yeah, maybe not WEIGHT, but some fat%? Can you enlight me on this?Thanx

[beautywithin85]

For sure that such an awsome question!

Short answer is that if you are receiving enough calories in your diet through 2000 cals of celery no you won't lose fat.

Body's primary source of energy is glucose which it gets directly from food, secondary source of energy is glycogen which is glucose converted into another type of molecule stored in the liver for times when glucose is not readily avail. Only when these 2 sources run out does the body begin to take energy from fat stored in cells.

[beautywithin85]

By the time this happens it's b/c the body is not receiving enough calories.

Secondly, if you refuse to eat any fat at all, the body is capable of "making" glucose into fat via a very complicated process. Your cholesterol levels, and triglyceride levels will go down but you will not physically lose fat from the body until you're not meeting the body's requirements

Sooo as long as you are recieving your 2000 cals a day you won't lose weight or fat.

[beautywithin85]

You will however lose vitamins and minerals (some of which need to be replaced on a daily basis), and electrolytes, so this is def a problem.

Basically the only benefit to eating that much celery is that you're right the bulk is extremely good for the large intestine/colon, it cleans it out and keeps it working effectively. People who eat lots of insoluble fibre have a much lower rate of colon cancer.

[LilTeaBag]

ok, thanks a lot! it makes a lot of sense! Peace out ; )

[beautywithin85]

cool =P and yep science makes sense as long as all the steps are there and understandable, otherwise we all get lost and confuzzled!

[Octophobia]

I'm taking Science of Food Prep. (college level) and I asked my professor about this. She surpisingly never heard about such a thing. I explained it to her and she didn't think it was possible her basis being that the cellulose isn't digested at all and just passes through without any calories burnt. But really, this belief may have good reasoning but once you get into the scientifics of it, it doesn't make any sense. Thanks for the video!

[beautywithin85]

I mean yeah the reasoning isn't completely totally flawed it just kind of has a lot of hiccupos in it =). Like I said maybe on a molecular level, glucose molecule for glucose molecule there could be some truth to it, but I think you're teacher is awesome, she's right I mean most of that insoluble fibre just keeps a moving down the track, your body doesn't even try to digest it.

Awesome about the nutrition prep classes tho! I love that, good luck and have fun with that!

[intothepast89]

thanks so much really gd video

[beautywithin85]

always welcome...

[AlyciaMalibu]

Lol, I knew you'd know about it. Yes, that seems like much too much effort for a mere 39 cals. (just want to also thank you for all your amazing videos, you're one of the few I truly look forward to seeing new videos from)

[beautywithin85]

aww thanks hun!

[AlyciaMalibu]

Great video! I completely agree with you! I have another theory that I've pondered upon many times: Many people say that your body has to burn calories to heat up ice water once you've drank it. What's your take on that? If so then water would be essentially negative calorie as opposed to zero calorie. (strange I know, but it just makes me wonder, and would love to have your opinion on it)

[beautywithin85]

Lol. I got bored one day in general chemistry so I did some calculations...to melt a 250 ml (so put the whole thing in your mouth and not let room temp melt it) solid ice -glass of water and bring it to body temperature would burn an entire 39 calories. Not worth it. Totally insignificant.

Waste of time. Kind of er...like that darn chemistry course I was bored in. =P