Revealed: 'Negative-calorie' foods that take more energy to digest than they contain. Doctors and experts tell of an extraordinary experiment that shows the truth

The claim is that when we eat certain foods - such as celery, cucumber, lettuce, melon and grapefruit - we burn more calories digesting them than they contain. So is it a diet trick - or just a viral myth?

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