Morning, some hard science coming up in today's episode, believe it or not, sometimes you

will hear things from your friends that are not rooted in sound scientific data, possibly

even that are in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics.

But a lot of people seem to believe them anyway.

One such idea is that certain foods exist that take more energy to eat than they provide,

literally negative calorie foods.

That's up next, on Skeptoid.

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Negative Calorie Food Myths.

Today we're going to point the Skepticali at one of the more popular food pseudosciences.

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