What Are Negative Calories? by Tanya Zilberter , PhD

It takes carefully matching caloric intake to caloric expenditure to maintain proper energy stores.

Achieving such a balance of energy is a product of complex interactions of hormones with the systems in the brain that regulates food intake and energy expenditure.

1. The 'anabolic' system is activated during negative energy balance. This system increases food intake and decreases energy expenditure to regain lost energy stores. It is trying to return the body to the energy-saving mode.

2. The catabolic system is activated during positive energy balance. This system decreases food intake and increases energy expenditure.

So the genuine catabolic system is activated only by a positive energy balance, which seriously contradicts the Catabolic Diet, leave alone the Negative Calorie Diet (tm) theory.

To make the things even worse, there are direct experimental facts that during negative energy balance the body decreases production of heat, thus decreasing energy expenditure.

Does this mean that the Catabolic Diet doesn't work? I'm far from making this conclusion. I am just trying to say that it works differently than is spelled out by its founder and his followers now selling their Negative Calorie Diet (tm)

Next part: "The more you eat the more you lose?" can be found at dietandbody.com/negative_calorie_2.html

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BIO:

Tanya Zilberter, PhD, is a researcher, health educator, exercise physiologist, and scientific journalist. Meet Tanya at dietandbody.com/banta/drzilberter.htm

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