“Don’t believe her..For heaven’s sake! No matter how awesome she looks..shes going to recommend some BS product in the end. So tamper your BS-meter and save the below configurations permanently for future references. Here we Go.. “
By John McCalister
Losing weight fast is no easy job, and many times some common yet illogical notions come in the way of effective weight loss programs. You believe them; you follow them- when there is no basis for all these beliefs!
The idea was generated sometimes around 1970’s- they said: You should always follow a diet according to your metabolic type! Under such notion it was believed that, gene types actually have an impact on deciding the effective diet plan- and the dietitians used to do a thorough physical taste in order to decide on the respective person’s diet. With the aide of modern advanced science, this myth has however been found illogical.
Complex carbohydrates: the all-time-supervillain for Fat Joes; if anything is to blame for obesity- it has always been the damn carbohydrates. Although many articles and journals have constantly tried to tell people that carbohydrates are NOT the only liable constituent for being fat; still people don’t seem to account the fact that, there are also other nutrients which also contribute to fattening.
This myth however has been found harmful in many cases. Even some of the diet related web-pages circulate such ideas like: killing your appetite or increasing the amount of metabolism leads toward fast ways to lose weight. Such ideas not only lack proper scientific back up but they also might become a threat to your sound health! Recently some so-called herbal products are pretty popular in the market. No matter how much the marketers claim, controversies still remain regarding their reliability.
Spot reducing body weight is another very popular yet very much illogical myth. How can you ever spot-reduce your weight? Think logically- is it possible to reduce fat preferentially at any particular part of your body while keeping the other parts same? Of course not. Whoever claims such ideas- don’t believe them! The best you can do is, spot-build the body mass in some part of your body, e.g. you can do sit ups for toning your abdominal muscles.
Many a times you will hear expert dietitians (more precisely wannabe-expert-dietitians) prescribing you to have many smalls meals a day, instead of having two or three big chunks of meal per day. The dietitian will tell you that, glucose level in your blood decreases heavily if there is a substantial gap between meals which eventually leads to higher craving for foods in your next meal. Like many other myths- this idea doesn’t have any scientific support either! However, the recent studies have shown that, frequent intake of foods harms the energy required to digest food!
There are many other myths those you will hear every once in a while- just make sure before believing any idea that it has sufficient scientific background.
