By Milos Rankovic
4 POPULAR NUTRITION MYTHS BUSTED!
4 POPULAR NUTRITION MYTHS BUSTED!
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The fitness industry can be a very confusing place. With all of the noise in the media, misleading and contradicting advises on the internet, it’s no wonder why the people are so much confused over nutrition and exercise.
In today’s article we want to help you all those people by clearing out some common myths and fallacies that surround fitness industry.
MYTH NO. 1 – You need to eat every 2-3 hours to speed up your metabolic rate and burn more fat.
How many times you heard that if you skip one meal your body goes to starvation mode making it impossible for you to lose fat?
The truth:
You maybe going to be surprised, but there is no single data in humans that show that skipping a single meal does anything to your metabolic rate.
According to the research, decrease of our metabolic rate doesn’t happen at least 60 hours without food and some studies on fasting shows that metabolic rate goes up acutely during the first 48 hours without food.
What we can say for sure is that you don’t need to panic if you ‘’missed’’ one meal. What is actually important is quality and total amount of food that you are eating over some period of time and not the number of meals you have.
Let your preference, hunger and athletic goals be your personal guide in deciding how many meals per day you are going to have.
MYTH NO. 2 – To avoid getting fat, don’t eat carbohydrates in the evening period.
There is a big believe in the fitness world that when night comes all carbohydrates that are eaten are being magically converted and stored as fat.
The Truth:
Eating carbohydrates at night doesn’t lead to fat gain if the total amount of daily calories eaten is matching the total daily caloric expenditure. The only way carbohydrates contribute to excessive fat gain is when they are contributing to a chronic excess of calories that is not used in muscle building purpose.
MYTH NO. 3. – Organic food is always more nutritious than conventional food
There is a big belief among fitness professionals and also the regular people that organic food is healthier than conventional one.
The Truth:
Although sounds logically on paper, couple of big systematic reviews didn’t support the idea that organic food is somehow healthier than conventional.
To quote the authors of the review:
On the basis of a systematic review of studies of satisfactory quality, there is no evidence of a difference in nutrient quality between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs. The small differences in nutrient content detected are biologically plausible and mostly relate to differences in production methods.
Our advice is that you should always center your diet around whole and minimally processed food regardless of whether organic is on the label.
The majority of the research does not support a universal claim that foods labeled as such are safer or more nutritious.
MYTH NO. 4 – Detoxing is a great way to lose fat
Detox diets are becoming more popular, but is there anything magical about them?
The truth:
The only reason why detox diets can work for weight loss is because they put you in a severe caloric deficit.
Any weight loss from a detox diet is mostly water, carbohydrate stores, and intestinal bulk — all of which come back in a few hours after the detox ends.
As far as the argument that detox diets clean the body from accumulated toxins goes, there is no any scientific evidence that body actually need to be detoxed apart from detoxing that our liver and kidneys naturally do.
