Burn Calories with the Thermic Effect of Food
Submitted by GG reader Danny Spice
Frequent eating revs up your metabolism due to the thermic effect of food. This is because the breakdown and absorption of food itself requires a substantial number of calories.
This is known as the thermic effect of food. Foods have a thermic effect ranging from 3% to 30%. Protein foods create a thermic effect of up to 30%. This means that 30% of the calories from foods like turkey, tuna, and salmon are burned simply by digesting them. Complex and fibrous carbohydrates burn about 20% of their calories through digestion. This includes broccoli, spinach, corn, green beans, etc.
On the other end of the spectrum are fats and refined carbohydrates. They have an extremeley low thermic effect of about 3%. This is one of the reasons that dietary fat is stored so easily as body fat.
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Talking about eating just made me hungry… :-/
Green beans… yummmm
Does anyone have a complete list of protein foods ?*`’
you will really need a lot of protein foods if you like to build some huge muscles.:*`
It is good too read your website again, i see some interesting updates here..