totally pointless statement of the day

celery is very under rated.

in taste, health benefits, and ease to eat when you are feeling sick.

it cleans the mouth/teeth a bit too!

eat celery!

it's wonderful!

 

oh and it burns more calories to eat it then the food itself gives you.

 

hey, that's not a pointless statement!!

celery is also a really awesome seasoning in soups and stews, and meats. if you eat game, it really cuts the gamey flavor...

 

health benefits....hmmm


fiber i'm guessing? can't think of much.

 

Lifted from the Urban Legends site

Celery has about 6 calories per 8-inch stalk, making it a dieter's staple. Although it's loaded with latent energy, the amount we are capable of extracting from it is negligible thanks to the plant's cellulose composition. Its ingestion can result in negative calories, but it is a fallacy to believe that effect has to do with energy expended in chewing. Though chewing might feel like a somewhat strenuous activity, it burns about the same amount of energy as watching paint dry. It is the bodily energy devoted to the digestion of the green stalks that exhausts calories. A cold low-calorie drink would enhance the effect, because the liquid needs to be warmed to body temperature, an act that requires further expenditure of energy.

Yet as enticing as all this sounds, the dietary bankroll built by this approach would be very small, probably amounting to no more than a few dozen calories a day. In a world where it takes 3,500 calories to work off a single pound of fat, feasting on celery would make only the merest difference.

There have been those who have taken this tiny sliver of truth and used it to form the basis of what they tout as "negative calorie diets," proving once again that anything can form the core of a diet plan someone wants to sell to others, provided it contains a notion that so much as vaguely sounds like it might work and weds it to the promise of easy, quick, effortless, and pain-free weight loss.

But in defense of celery, we note that even if it doesn't contribute mightily to a caloric imbalance which serves to work waistline magic, those who are eating it aren't eating something else. Sometimes the key to a successful reducing plan is not so much the ingestion of "good" foods as it is the avoidance of "bad" ones. And it's hard to sneak a chocolate bar into a mouth that's busy chewing celery.

 

nuh uh chocolate covered celery is a traditional new england confection dating back thousands of years....

 

celery has very little health benefits, if any. its all water and greens. no nutrion.

 

celery juice helps replace electrolytes

 

and it tastes good.

 

what would celery juice be, water with a green tint?

 

oh, you haven't had celery in a very long time, huh?

 

ahh, but the green tint.

 

don't forget the peanut butter, you need yoru protein.

 

and make sure that it is high-quality peanut butter..