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In a perfect world, chocolate cake would be nutritious, soda would build bones like milk, and food would have negative calories. Sadly, our world is far from perfect, chocolate cake is far from nutritious, soda destroys your bones, BUT, some foods DO have negative calories. Well, one in three ain’t bad.

You’ve heard it said that celery is a dieter’s best friend, but why? Celery is one of those foods that had very few calories. In fact, one stalk has a mere 6 calories. So you can munch away until your jaw aches, and you’ll still have only consumed less than 50 calories. In fact, because your body actually burns calories to digest food, (finally you don’t have to work for something!) it ends up burning more than 6 calories to digest that stalk of celery. This is why celery is called a “negative calorie food,” because the digestion process results in more calories burned than consumed from the food.

So, let’s talk about the nutritional package you get in these crunchy stalks. While they arent the most nutritionally dense veggie you can eat, celery certainly has some stellar qualities to offer.

1)It’s got plenty of fiber. It’s a veg. No shocker there. (about 2grams of fiber in 27 sticks.)

2) It’s a great source of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and folate too.

3) It contains compounds called pthalides that can possibly help reduce blood pressure.

And if you really want a good reason to buy into celery… just think… ANTS ON A LOG.
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