Catabolic foods

Question
Hello, I was wondering if you could help me get some nutritional information straight. Latley I've been reading up about negative calorie foods, or more specifically catabolic foods with complex carbhydrates. I understand the principles behind them and how they work, but what I can't seem to get a straight answer on are the foods themselves. I've found a lot of conflicting and non-specific lists, and even more websites that charge to get a book or downloaded list of what they say are 100 of these "Negative Calorie" foods. So I would like to know if there is a reliable place I can get this list or one like it without having to spend money. Also, I have a list which while is not complete contains some foods which are not entirely specific but very appealing to eat as negative calorie foods worked into my diet.  I was hoping you might be able to verify some or all of these foods as negative calorie. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated, thank you. Enclosed is the list: GRAINS: rice, pasta, oatmeal, Cream of Wheat, corn, pretzels, air-popped popcorn (optional, "I can't believe it's not butter spray")
VEGETABLES: potatoes, broccoli, spinach, Swiss chard, carrots, sweet potatoes, green beans.
LEGUMES: black beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, vegetarian baked beans, chick-peas, green beans.
FRUITS: apples, bananas, cherries, grapefruit, oranges, peaches, pears, apples, bananas
OTHERS: beans, whole grain breads, broccoflower, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, citrus fruits, corn, cranberries, grains and grains products, grapes, fruit preserves and jams(sugar free & low fat), leeks, lettuce, mushrooms, peas, peppers, pineapple, potatoes, root veggies, spinich, tomatoes, zucchini, pickles(no sweet),leafy greens, apricots grapefruit, carrots, onions, sourkraut, eggplant.  

Answer
There is just one reason you can't get a straight answer: It's all garbage! The source of this nonsense is along the same lines as the story about the guy who wakes up in a bathtub full of ice, his kidney missing and a phone nearby to dial 911. Good story, but it's just not going to happen.

The grain of truth behind the 'negative calorie foods' is age old discoveries that show by expending the energy (burning calories) to CHEW foods like celery, lettuce and other low value nutritional - high water content foods, we actually use more calories than the food has (thus 'negative calories').  Some brilliant (not!) overweight person decided that by eating only foods like these, they'd lose weight. Thus, the "rabbit food diets" were born. Those diets of mostly salads, lots of carrots, you know the drill. And when did this all begin? Well, no one knows for sure, but probably as far back as the 1940's ?  And the result?  We are fatter than ever before and growing fatter at rates higher than at any time in history.
 Still, these stories keep growing and change here and there...adding what sounds like scientific data (there's NOTHING based in real fact). Then, the profit mongers (the $40-BILLION per year diet industry) figured out a way to sell stuff (from books to lists to actual foods).
 The bottom line: If anything like this worked, no one would be fat anymore.  No one would have been fat since 1940?

No food 'erases' the calories from other foods. Some of the foods on the lists you have are actually quite HIGH calorie foods and need to be consumed in limited amounts or there's bound to be significant weight gain.

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