Find Out The Truth About These 5 Dieting Myths

Sep 04, 2009 @ 07:25 am by Guest Author

If a myth gets passed a lot by numerous sources in no time it gets to be an absolute truth. There are dieting and eating myths that won’t hurt you at all while there are others that can put your health in danger. You just have to be careful. Here are 5 of the most common dieting myths and the truth about them:

1) Sugar has more calories than honey: it is a wide spread belief that you should replace sugar with honey because it has fewer calories. But the fact is that honey contains more calories than sugar. One spoon of honey contains 65 calories while one spoon of sugar contains 15 calories. But still it is far healthier to eat honey instead of sugar because the sweetening force of honey is far greater than that of sugar which means you need to use less to obtain the same sweet taste.

2)From all the meats you can eat fish is the less full of fat choice:it is wide spread the idea that the fattiest fish meat that you can consume contains fewer fats than any low fat meat. This just isn’t true. For example tuna contains 13 grams of fats per 100 grams while 100 grams of turkey meat contains merely 3 grams of fats. You should still eat fish even if it is fattier and contains extra calories because the fats it contains are good beneficial fats. Fish contain omega 3 fats which help you prevent cardiovascular diseases.

3)You get obese because of fat: Salt doesn’t make you fatter it just help your body hold more water which makes you look fatter. On average you are eating about 10 grams of salt every day but your body only needs only 4 grams of salt per day. Just 2 grams of the 10 come from the salt you personally add in your cooking. countless foods you eat contain heaps of salt in them. Now you don’t need to stop eating anything salty. Your body needs salt to function properly and it has its own means of getting rid of all the excess salt you give it. If you eat salty foods you feel the need to drink lots of water. All that water helps you eliminate the excess salt found in your body without making you fatter. So salt is nonfattening.

4) If you eat less food your tummy will get smaller in time:this dieting myth is as naive as untrue it is. You can starve yourself for 1 week and you won’t get a smaller stomach. All you succeed in doing is starve your body which is always bad. Your stomach is a muscular and elastic container. Your stomach expands when your eat food and regains its initial size after the digestive process is over. Regardless of how much you starve yourself your stomach won’t become smaller. But you will harm it because all that gastric acid will start eating your stomach and you will suffer form stomach problems in time. Plus hunger is very painful. So don’t do it.

5) Frozen vegetables contain a smaller amount of vitamins and minerals than fresh vegetables: on the contrary. Frozen vegetables, because they are frozen quickly after they are harvested, suffer a smaller amount of vitamin and mineral losses. Fresh vegetables, which are kept for days in crates for days, get damaged and start to lose the vitamins and minerals they contain. If you have a garden and you have just picked the fruits and vegetables you are eating the situation is very different then.

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