Comments on: Burn Fat With The Thermic Effect of Food

By: Darrin

Darrin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:08:53 +0000

@Eduard – I’m not sure I understand your question, but when we say “metabolism”, that’s shorthand for “the amount of calories you burn while resting”. [Of course "metabolism" has a more complete and scientific meaning beyond the scope of this article.] So the harder your body works – even while resting – to digest your food, the higher your metabolism is. A person with a PhD in exercise nutrition would probably cringe at the oversimplification, but there you have it. Hope that helps!

By: Eduard

Eduard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:28:20 +0000

It was said that certain foods speed up our metabolism more than others, but i wondered to what point we can talk about “speeding up” metabolism. Isn’t it rather because of the nature of “light” food such as vegetables that it is also easily and rapidly digested instead of causing our metabolism identify the food as vegetable and reacting to it? In the same line i wonder how digestion time and thermic effect of food is related to eachother…. thank you

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:51:38 +0000

Peter- Most places I’ve read have a close consensus about which fruits go into the negative calorie category, but apples and oranges weren’t included in all lists, so there is some discrepancy as you’ve pointed out.

I don’t think that’s too terribly important though. Bottom line is that eating a diet of good food with correct portions of protein, fruits, and vegetables will help to keep fat levels down. I’ll let the scientists worry about the minutia from there.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:27:45 +0000

There are a lot of myths about negative calories, apples and oranges are certainly not “negative calorie” foods. Most fruit is around 11% sugar and packs a lot of energy.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:43:26 +0000

RT- Yeah, fruit is healthy stuff. Some fruits are bigger than others, some people are bigger than others. Purpose here is to get people to actually start eating some fruit each day above the big fat zero that they might be eating now, not to limit them to 1-2 pieces.

BTW- I never said to eat “only” 1-2 pieces. It’s a general guideline, similar to when someone hears you say to drink a gallon of water per day. That doesn’t mean you can’t drink more than a gallon, but that a gallon is a good starting place. 1-2 pieces is a good guide, and 3-4 pieces of fruit every day could be overdoing it for some smaller people.