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Celery Uncovered
They say that certain foods take more calories to digest than they contain.
Apparently the "negative calorie" theory isn't that reliable. Unfortunately it's nothing more than a myth.
In a test, thought to be a first of its kind, lizards chowed down on celery based meals and retained around a quarter of the foods calories after digestion.
Katherine Buddemeyer from the University of Alabama, lead of the study, used a group of bearded dragon lizards to demonstrate the fact.
The lizards used about 33 per cent of the calories in the meal for digestion and about 43 per cent were excreted. Meaning that the animals retained 24 per cent of the calories.
According to Dr. Buddemeyer, ”Rather than labelling such foods as 'negative calorie' it would be more accurate to pitch these foods as 'negative budget', the consumption of which will favour a daily negative energy budget, and hence weight loss."
The study has been submitted to the Journal of Experimental Biology and is under review.
Apparently the "negative calorie" theory isn't that reliable. Unfortunately it's nothing more than a myth.
In a test, thought to be a first of its kind, lizards chowed down on celery based meals and retained around a quarter of the foods calories after digestion.
Katherine Buddemeyer from the University of Alabama, lead of the study, used a group of bearded dragon lizards to demonstrate the fact.
The lizards used about 33 per cent of the calories in the meal for digestion and about 43 per cent were excreted. Meaning that the animals retained 24 per cent of the calories.
According to Dr. Buddemeyer, ”Rather than labelling such foods as 'negative calorie' it would be more accurate to pitch these foods as 'negative budget', the consumption of which will favour a daily negative energy budget, and hence weight loss."
The study has been submitted to the Journal of Experimental Biology and is under review.