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 consume fish is the less fatty choice:I don’t know how it happened but countless people think that fish contain fewer fats than any other type of meat, including low fat meat like chicken meat. The truth is that 100 grams of turkey meat contains only 3 grams of fat while 100 grams of tuna contains 13 grams of fats. You ought to still eat fish even if it is fattier and contains extra calories because the fats it contains are good nourishing 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) By eating fewer food your stomach will become smaller:you must be really gullible to believe this. You can starve yourself for 1 week and you won’t get a smaller belly. All you succeed in doing is starve your body which is always bad. Your belly is super elastic and it expands when you eat food. After you have digested all the food the tummy contains it regains its initial size . When you start eating fewer your stomach won’t start shrinking and become the size of a nut. Your stomach will stay at its usual size but all the gastric juice that gets accumulated in it will make you feel a lot of pain. So don’t do it.
5) Butter has more calories than margarine:while dieting you should stay away from both of them if you want to lose weight.The truth is that 100 grams of butter or margarine both have about 360 calories. There is almost no difference when it comes to the amount of calories. The difference is the quality of the fats they contain. Butter contains saturated fatty acids while margarine contains vegetable unsaturated fats. Saturated fats are more easily assimilated by your body. If you like margarine you can still eat it because it has the same number of calories as butter.
