Negative calorie foods

Ways to Cut Your Calorie Intake

Looking for ways to cut your calorie intake? Eat celery and apples. The net calories of these whole foods is actually negative because celery and apples deliver fewer calories than the calories you burn by eating them.

That’s just one of several interesting factoids on a list titled “Things to make you smarter” that a friend e-mailed me this week. Some of the items on the list I know to be true, while other items are a little suspect.

For instance: “On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.” I’m not sure how you’d prove a statistic like that. But if it’s even half right it’s unsettling, to say the least.

Here are a few more intriguing items from the list – some health and diet related, some not. Take them with a grain of salt.

• 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals
• Most lipstick contains fish scales
• By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless)
• The first product Motorola developed was a record player for automobiles – at that time the most popular player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola
• The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was never a recorded Wendy before that
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants
• Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine (That was before it became a “vegetable”)