Negative Calories: Do They Exist?
Negative Calories – do they really exist?
Of course negative calories exist… However, are there any foods that are scientifically known as negative calorie foods? Nope. Why? Hard to say but it could simply be a case of marketing. Scientists are not marketers and in fact, if not for marketers, most scientific discoveries would never be as well known as they are.
Here at The Equilibria Group, we like to think of ourselves as discovery marketers… We never set out to create a hyped up fad diet. In fact, The Negative Calorie Diet and the phrase, negative calories came long after many experiments in trying to figure out a diet that would ease the symptons of psoriasis. The originator of The Negative Calorie Diet was actually a U.S. Navy physical readiness coordinator and a recruiter. On top of that, he had a severe case of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. He tried everything under the sun to ease his symptoms and nothing really worked long term.
In the end, he decided to try changing his diet… He went to new and used book stores and purchased over $1400 worth of books on diet and nutrition and began a journey that ended up becoming The Negative Calorie Diet and of course negative calories.
Over the course of several years, this sailor painstakingly and drastically changed his diet in a concentrated effort to relieve himself of psoriasis. The good news is that he did find a few diets and nutritional factors that relieved his hereditary skin condition. At one point however, one of these diets caused him to quickly lose 27 pounds in 30 days. At first, he thought it was simply a fluke until he shared the diet with several other military recruiters… One by one, the other recruiters started losing weight. It didn’t take long for all these recruiters to wonder if this new diet might work on some of their overweight applicants.
It did.
Back in those days, the main part of the diet existed on several typed up sheets of paper that our sailor happily shared with his friends, family, and associates. It wasn’t until about 8 years later that a very rough copy of those same typed up sheets of paper finally made their way back to our sailor. It had been copied over and over and over again and shared with people in the military the world over — even military in different countries.
In the military, when something tends to work and work well — people SHARE. And share they did. Eventually, our sailor retired from the Navy and wondered if other people might benefit from the diet so from there, he expanded on it because by now, he had made fitness, nutrition, and diet a very serious hobby of his in order to keep his psoriasis in remission. He figured that if negative calories worked for him and everyone that ended up sharing, negative calories just might work for lots of other people.
And negative calories did in fact work…
Negative calories are really known as the thermic effect of food or thermogenisis… So the next time you read an article by all the naysayers, you can be sure that they’ve never actually read about negative calories or The Negative Calorie Diet. If these naysayers do not include the actual scientific explanations of negative calories known as thermogenisis, diet-induced thermogenisis, or the thermic effect of food, then you’ll know they’ve NOT done their homework as well as they should have.
Negative Calories work. Plain and simple.
Jack Riser
