Don’t always believe what you hear- especially when it comes to your health. Here’s some nutrition myths we were taught to follow, and according to the experts, we shouldn’t have listened to.
Sugar Causes Diabetes
So far, a diet high in calories, being overweight, and an inactive lifestyle are the main risk factors for Type 2 diabetes.
All Fats are bad
The key is to replace bad fats (saturated fats and trans fats) with good fats (monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats) in our diet.
Brown Sugar is better than White Sugar
Unless you eat a gigantic portion of brown sugar everyday – the mineral content difference between brown sugar and white sugar is absolutely insignificant.
Brown Eggs are more nutritious than White Eggs
Eggshell color can vary but it has nothing to do with the quality, flavor, nutritive value, cooking characteristics or shell thickness of an egg. The eggshell color only depends upon the breed of the hen.
Avoid seafood to lower blood cholesterol
Saturated fats usually found in meat products and packaged foods, and trans fatty acids, are the most important factors that raise blood cholesterol, not dietary cholesterol.
Avoid carbohydrate to lose weight
Many low-carb diets do not provide sufficient carbohydrates to your body for daily maintenance. It doesn’t matter if you eat a high or low-carb diet, you will lose weight if you decrease your caloric intake to less than that is needed to maintain your weight.
Avoid nuts as they are fattening
In moderation, nuts can be a part of a healthy diet. In fact, nuts are high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (good fats) as well as plant sterols which have all been shown to lower LDL cholesterol.
Skipping meals can help lose weight
Often times, skipping a meal results in an increase in total caloric intake than if we just ate more frequently throughout the day. A better approach is to eat smaller frequent healthy meals and snacks to keep our blood sugar balanced.
About The Author:Chester is a health nutrition consultant and is the owner of AstroNutrition – a provider of premium health nutrition and sports supplements.
What about Type 1 diabetes?
Fats are necessary for brain development in children. Demirara is better than brown sugar, dark brown is better for baking cookies, honey is better in your tea.
Brown eggs just taste better! Especially fresh from the farm!
Eat seafood because it tastes good, and is good for you, it also lowers all kinds of numbers.
Avoid carbohydrates if you are diabetic or hypoglycemic, not necessarily to lose weight.
Nuts can be fattening; look at the elephant! Eat them anyway!
Skipping meals can help you lose weight only if you skip a whole bunch in a row. Skipping meals is not recommended, and can be detrimental to your health. Cut back on portion size to lose weight.
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Actually a diet high in sugars and starches is responsible for upping insulin in a persons body and over time this leads to insulin resistance and diabetes. This is not a myth it is scientific fact. The person who wrote this article knows little and less of anything nutrition wise and just seems to be spouting out soundbites that they have heard were true at one time or another. But I don’t know what I was expecting since indeed the nature of this very collection is supposed to be to shock us… so I suppose I should not be surprised that veracity takes a backseat.
A low carb eating plan would benefit most people’s health and as a side effect they do lose that extra weight. Saturated fats are the natural fat source of humans throughout our evolutionary history. As such they are what our bodies are designed to consume and are not bad for us. The lipid hypothesis was based on bad science that got put into government health regulations.
“Avoid sugar and starch” is the most sound nutrition advice out there. Anyone saying different is towing the party line of their vegetarianism or sadly misinformed.
I will just leave this here for smart people who like to see things explained in detail rather than have the bullet points thrown at them pedantically implying they don’t know how to sort out what’s good for them.
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