A very popular diet plan that has come under fire recently is the negative calorie foods diet. There are few eating plans that cause as much heated argument as this one, as there are many dieters who claim it works and love it, while others argue over whether or not this diet is a scam – or if it’s even dangerous. Many dieters have a hard time figuring out the truth because there seems to be misunderstanding from a lot of people on what this diet actually is and how it is supposed to work.

At first glance negative calories seem too good to be true, and you never fault a dieter with being cautious. Studying the list will help dieters make sense that this is a supplemental diet to help reduce overall calories: not some miracle to eat “negative calories” each and every day. Many do consider negative calorie foods to be a fad, but these same foods are mainstays in many other diets. Still, the question is: are negative calorie foods a healthy part of a diet, or dangerous fad?

There are a lot of arguments over this point. Many people argue that there can be no such thing as a “negative calorie.” This is true, because there can’t tangibly be anything with a negative value in real life. This isn’t what the negative calorie foods diet is saying, however. What this diet is saying is that there are foods that force the body to work and take more calories to burn, digest, and process than the food has in it. This creates the “negative calorie” effect and therefore you have negative calorie foods.

This claim has been argued, as well, but in the end the question is will people lose weight if they eat a lot of negative calorie foods? The answer is yes. All of these foods are either fruits or vegetables, most of which have a very high water content and most of which are also very high in fiber, as well. This helps to keep the dieter full while minimizing the calories that are there to be burned.

The arguments may continue on, but does that really matter? Even if negative calorie foods do not truly produce a real life deficit in calories, eating a ton of high fiber and high water fruits and veggies will almost certainly help the majority of dieters lose weight.