If this is what your friend is asking s/he is very confused
and should go to the nearest library, go to the reference
section, and read the encyclopedia article(s) on nutrition.

The answer to the first issue is NO as everybody has been telling you.

The second issue you address below is the fact that fiber takes
the body a long time to process, therefore it goes through the
body slower, therefore the body takes longer to feel hungry again.

That is NOT negative calories.

Your friend needs to start an exercise program; I find that
aerobic exercise like a long walk or Tae Bo not only burns
calories big-time, but also suppresses appetite, improves
cardio-pulmonary and cardio-vascular condition, combats
arthritis insomnia and migraines, helps prevent dementia
and cancer of several kinds, reverses osteoporosis, lowers
blood pressure and cholesterol. Strength training is
also needed, and flexibility exercise like yoga is an
excellent idea.

Your friend also needs to eat plenty of vegetables fruits
whole-grains and legumes which have most of the nutrients
people need, including fiber; also animal products like
meat for complete proteins, vitamin B12 and high-absorption
iron; and very limited amounts of fats with emphasis on
olive/canola oils.

wrote:

THANKS.

The question that was posed to me was:
"Does it take MORE energy to break-down certain
foods vs. others? There are only three answers:
yes, no, or the same.

If the answer is yes, then the next question
would be "how much energy does it take per specific food"?
That's the chart(s) that I want to see.

If celery or apples, etc. make you "feel" full, and at the same
time provide only a minimal net calorie gain, then is this not
a good supplement to a balanced diet?

Gene

"Melissa" wrote in message
. ..
Did you read any of the other replies? There isn't a more complete list
because they are a myth.

"The Catabolic Diet is another example of slick marketing. One of the ways
nutrition fraud survives is through creativity. People are always looking
for something new to help with weight reduction, especially when the
latest
weight loss craze doesn't work and no longer is appealing. Like all weight
loss gimmicks, The Catabolic Diet takes the physiological fact that the
body
requires energy (calories) to digest food and builds a falsehood around
it.
The digestive process is very complex and well regulated. It is a myth
that
foods have negative calories. If the previous examples were true, weight
loss would happen by eating rice cakes all day, regardless of how many
were
eaten. Apples, celery, cauliflower, and other low calorie foods have
nothing
magical about them. People lose weight in two ways: they are taking in
less
food than their body requires and/or they are expending more calories than
they are taking in."

From http://myweb.cableone.net/kkelly/art...catabolic.html

Melissa



wrote in message
...
THANKS, but I found and posted that one earlier.
I was looking for a more detailed list.
THANKS for the post.

Gene


"Happy_Homemaker" wrote in message
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http://www.webterrace.com/negative/negative.htm

You should learn how to do a web search, dear.

wrote in message
...
If anyone has a link to where I can get a reasonably complete list
of :

Negative Calorie Foods
and/or
Fat Burning Foods

please email me, or post the URL in here.

If I'm going to try & lose 20 pounds, I might as well
choose foods that are harder to digest & fill you up a bit
mo-)

THANKS,
Gene

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