Eat These Foods To Burn Belly Fat

24 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the presenter explains the thermic effect of food (TEF), describing how the body expends calories to digest what we eat. Different macronutrients have distinct TEF values: dietary fat burns only 1–3 calories per 100 calories consumed, carbohydrates burn 3–7 calories per 100, and protein can burn up to 30 calories per 100. The speaker highlights that higher protein intake can increase calorie expenditure, which may help some individuals lose weight or improve body composition despite eating more food.

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The more calories you eat, the more calories you burn. And let me explain why. There is something called your thermic effect of food. And what this means is your body has to break down the food you eat. And through breaking down the food, it requires you to burn calories, but you only burn more calories eating specific foods. For example, if you eat dietary fat, for every 100 calories you eat, you're only going to burn 1 to 3 calories. But when you eat carbohydrates, for every 100 calories you eat, you're going to burn 3 to 7 calories, which still isn't that much. But for every 100 calories of protein you eat, your body is going to burn up to 30 of those calories. And this is how some people end up eating more food, especially protein, and you see them lose weight or change how their body composition looks.