If you’ve done much research on diets at all, then you’ve probably already run across the concept of negative calorie foods. The negative calorie food diet is one that has come under a lot of scrutiny, but despite this it’s an idea that has created a lot of imitators based around the same basic principles. For a much criticized diet, it sure has a lot of imitators!
Many diets are based at least in part (if not entirely) around foods that appear on the negative calorie foods list. This includes the grapefruit diet, pineapple diet, and cabbage soup diet, just to name a few. Obviously vegetarian diets will have a lot in common with negative calorie foods, as well, since all the foods on this list are either fruits or vegetables.
One of these diets, the pineapple diet, involves eating pineapple all the time. Pineapple is one of the fruits that appears on the list. While there are many different styles of this particular eating plan, all of them involve eating a great deal of pineapple, a similar eating plan to the often much maligned negative calorie foods diet.
The cabbage soup diet is an extremely popular off shoot of the negative calorie foods diet. The daily soup is almost completely full of only negative calorie foods, and then vegetable broth, to boot. One day also has only fruits on top of the soup, while another has only vegetables. This diet in a ton of ways mimics negative calorie foods.
And the grapefruit diet is yet another example of an eating plan that could have been designed simply by picking out a person’s favorite negative calorie food and just running with it. Grapefruit has enormous popularity as a diet food because it is high in water, fiber, and vitamins and low in calories. In addition to all this, grapefruit is notoriously hard for the body to break down and process, forcing your body to work and burn more calories to process it.
All the foods on this list are fruits and vegetables, which can help explain why you generally just don’t find fat vegetarians. Vegetarian diets are going to have a lot in common with negative calorie foods because all the food that comes under this definition are fruits and veggies.
These are just a few of many diets that seem to branch off from the idea of negative calorie foods. While none of them are likely to admit this, the eating plans and emphasis on certain types of foods making up the majority of the diet are similar ideas.
All arguments aside, you’re not likely to ever find someone who says eating more fruit and vegetables is a bad nutritional choice. Negative calorie foods are all about the fruits and veggies, so no matter what type of arguments remain this diet is likely to stay around.
