Let's Do Lunch Community

This is from an article  in today's Vancouver Province Newpaper

All calories are not created equal.
" Some calories require more energy to digest , giving you a bigger bang for your buck" says Leslie Bonci registered dietitian, Director of Sports  Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and author of the upcoming book The Active Calorie Diet

Some tips from the book:

-eat plenty of low fat protein, as digesting these foods requires the most calorie burn, just keep choices healthy
-Focus on fibre, as fibre rich foods place second on the active calorie list, load up on fruits and vegtables
-go for chewy, your mouth, the first stop in the digestive process will have to work harder, choose whole fruit vs fruit juice, toss extra beans or broccoli into soups and stir fries
-add spice, including such items as crushed peppers,wasabi and hot sauce at most likely will burn and extra 10-20 calories a day thanks to a compound called capsaicin, not a lot, but it adds up over time. If you can't tolerate spice, try cinnamon,garlic,or cloves
-drink green tea to take advantage of a metabolism revving substance in tea leaves
-cook more, opening a package burns zero calories, much less than cooking from scratch!

Good article, Cameron - I wonder if the author of the article has ever heard of LDL.  Maybe Roger should send him some more info- or a book and some testimonials!!!  Pam

Confirming what we already do! Keep that veggie platter handy! Lots of chewing there.  Wither

Good post Cameron.  Thanks for posting it.  As far as the green tea goes, I heard a doctor on tv recently, a well-known Christian doctor, Dr. Don Colbert, say that drinking green tea (I think he said 3-4 cups a day), is a natural appetite suppressant.  Jerrie

  JF

You'll also absorbed the nutrients in the green tea much better if you add lemon.

CQ

RT... that excerpt  from the first post is from the author of an upcoming book   "The Active Calorie Diet"  guess it is out already 
http://www.activecaloriediet.com/uof/ac ... feast.html

Cameron,
Maybe RT wants to contact the newspaper journalist to see if they would do an article or interview him to discuss Let's Do Lunch

Hi Mr Wilson

I still have the article and just took a look to see who had actually written it. It seems the Vancouver newspaper borrowed it from  the "McClatchy Tribune"  I believe that is a large newspaper company in the USA. No individuals name is mentioned, so unfortunately I do not know who  wrote the article.

shirley

That is what I found too Cameron when  I did a Google search..that it was the McClatchy Tribune