Diet Myths of Weight Loss

Diet Myths of Weight loss

Are you working on losing weight? Have a good diet plan? Taking some exercises?

These are the basics. You have to maintain a proportion between your calorie intake and your energy expenditure.

Roughly there is a calculation that if you intake 500K. Calorie less than your daily requirement, you will lose 0.5kg per week. So make a good diet plan proportionate to your energy expenditure.

And don’t believe in myths about your diet. It may ruin your goal.

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Here are ten myths about diet regarding your weight loss.

 

‘Fat should be strictly avoided.’

What do you think about your weight loss diet plan? Don’t you consider a small amount of fat in your meal?

It is wrong. A healthy adult daily required around 1-1.5gm/Kg body weight of fat. Fat is an energy source and helps to maintain different metabolic pathways in our body.

Without a fat-containing diet plan, all of the vitamins you are taken, especially fat-soluble vitamin A, D, E, and K, will not absorb from your gastrointestinal tract, and you may suffer from different vitamin deficiency diseases.

So, an appropriate amount of fat should be included in your diet plan.

 

‘Carbs are making you obese.’

Carbohydrate-containing foods are indeed responsible for central obesity and excess accumulation of fat in our bodies. Carbohydrates metabolized and produced energy, and some of them transform to fat as well as complex carbohydrate compound like glycogen and are stored in our body.

But the correcting should be made. Carbohydrate is not responsible. ‘Excess Amount’ of carbohydrate is responsible for your obesity. Without carbohydrates, your body cannot maintain any activity. It is the primary source of energy. Otherwise, Carbs containing foods are usually vegetables and fruits. So if you want to avoid carbs, you have to avoid the primary source of vitamins and minarets too.

 

‘Has to avoid red meat which contains protein and a high amount of fat.’

Red meat contains fat, but it also has heart-healthy unsaturated fat. It also contains oleic acid, which is even a heart-healthy fat. Red meat includes several types of vitamins and minerals that are required for young women, and a deficiency of them may cause anaemia.

 

‘Dairy products are more fat-containing food.’

The dairy product contains different types of vitamins, protein, and fat. But, not as much as we think. Milk, cheese, and yoghurt are commonly used dairy products that also contain essential nutrients like zinc, some B vitamins, and calcium. Calcium helps to build strong and healthy bones and prevents osteoporosis in later life.

These dairy products contain low fat and will not affect your weight loss plan.

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‘Single food in a meal is good.’

If you think carbohydrate and protein-containing foods may clash during absorption and you will not get the proper amount of protein and carbohydrate, you are wrong.

Every food component is divided into the smallest chemical compound that can be absorbed independently. But some vitamins need fat to be ingested. So, a single food meal is the wrong idea. And there are no or very few foods you will find containing carbohydrates, protein, or fat purely.

 

‘Only fruits containing breakfast is good for weight loss.’

What will be your body’s internal need after fasting a whole night? It needs energy.

A rich breakfast is more important than lunch. Otherwise, your blood sugar will fall, and your brain may be hanged after prolonged fasting.

So, with fruit, it’s better to take some cereal foods like bread for maintaining an appropriate blood sugar level with your breakfast.

 

‘Skip a meal, a way to lose some pounds’

Are you skipping a meal? What about your next meal?

Taking a regular amount of food, or you have to eat some extra for controlling your hunger.

Skipping a meal is not a good idea to lose some weight. Most of the time, it causes a double intake of food in the next meal, and weight gain may occur.

‘Be a vegetarian; you will be skinny.’

Don’t think that vegetarians take fewer calories than you. But their diet pattern is healthy for the cardiovascular system, and it lowers blood pressure.

The critical negative thing about being vegetarian is essential amino acids are found less in an amount in vegetables and plant sources, and they have to take many and verities types of food to meet their daily body requirement.

Many vegetarians suffer from anaemia due to protein deficiency.

If you are a nonvegetarian, you don’t need to change your diet plan. Just take the appropriate amount of different types of foods.

 

‘All Fast foods are forbidden.’

Fast food contains a high amount of fat but not all of them. Your homemade food also may contain a rich amount of fat. So, it’s essential to choose proper nutrition, which is less fatty and less calorie-containing.

 

‘Without a weight loss supplement, you can’t lose your weight.’

Weight loss supplements help to reduce your weight by decreasing appetite, decreasing the absorption of food from your gastrointestinal tract, and increasing energy expenditure by stimulating your cells.

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So, a quality weight loss supplement works. But without diet controlling an appropriate calorie consumption, you can’t control your obesity.

Weight loss supplements are additives to your diet plan but not a compulsory thing.

At last, you are taking a proper diet, and leading a lazy life may destroy your plan. So, take a proper diet, be active, and reach your goal.

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