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Monday, April 15, 2013

Diet Myths

DIET MYTH #1

Put hot sauce on your food and see the pounds drop off!

The 'genius' behind this myth is that the heat from the pepper sauce will burn off calories. There's another theory that follows; that being that after eating all that hot sauce the individual gets mega heartburn and is unable to digest anything for several days/hours. Nonetheless, enjoy your food and continue to season it to your own personal taste. The amount of calories, if any, that are burned from the heat is minimal and shouldn't spur anyone to transfix on a pepper feeding frenzy.

DIET MYTH #2

Limit your fat grams to 30 or less per day and see that weight fall off!

The 'no fat' craze sprung up in the 90's in full force and continues to be quite popular. The unhealthy results of this following should be our guide. Fact is, you need a certain amount of fat in your diet for proper digestion, shiny hair, healthy skin, energy – and so on.

Let's logically examine this low-fat, high calorie example. Maple syrup is fat-free with about 250 calories per ¼ cup. McDonalds serves some very good hotcakes that have only 9 grams of fat per three hotcakes, totaling 340 calories. Add ½ cup of our maple syrup to that and we suddenly skyrocket to 840 calories; that's with no butter added. Yes, we're still holding at 9 grams of fat, but look at those calories!! If one ate this type meal three times per day, they'd see little or no weight loss with minimal heath or vitamin benefits.

DIET MYTH #3

Exercise decreases hunger.

Exercise burns calories and creates muscle. It takes more calories to support muscle than fat. Again, let's examine this statement with logic. Exercise is extremely vital, extremely beneficial to our overall health. However, not many people who are into the exercise craze can eat anything they want. Exercise and daily diet balance weight.

DIET MYTH #4

Potatoes and bananas are fattening.

Each have about 100 calories, depending on whether you made your purchase at Paul Bunyon's Village Garden or Tom Thumb's Mini Vegetable Market. When making food choices, it's best to stick within the small to medium size range. In addition, both the banana and potato are very low in fat, filling, packed with potassium – and healthy choices!

DIET MYTH #5

Carbohydrates make you fat.

Carbohydrates are filling which is a must for any dieter. Carbohydrates are like any other food category; everything must be done in moderation.

DIET MYTH #6

Grapefruit and vinegar burn calories.

Again, activity burns calories. Running, walking, swimming, sitting, standing – all of these activities burn energy (calories = energy). Even when your body is at rest it's burning calories through 'inner activity'. It takes energy to breathe, for lung compression, for your heart to beat.

Summing it up! The bottom line is use YOUR logic when making food choices to incorporate into your diet. There's so many voices out there, advising this – advising that, where diet is concerned. Many people have listened; some have even died due to following misconstrued, bad advice. Diet Bites endorses healthy choices, wise choices, and logical choices. If there were truly a miracle food on the market today, then everyone would be on that bandwagon. So, stick with logic.

This information came from "http://www.dietbites.com/article1034.html" I do not claim the rites to this article and am only using it for informational purposes.

Asian Tips for Weight loss

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Wives Tales:

If you lay down right after eating you will turn into a cow (become fat); obviously this is not true, but do it enough times after eating a big/heavy meal you will soon find it can be. Take a slow-paced walk around the neighborhood after eating for 10-20 minutes to help your body digest the food quicker and easier. Especially after a heavier meal.
If wanting to lose weight, you cannot eat after 8pm, this is FALSE, it does not matter what time of the day you eat, only calorie intake and how much daily exercise your getting matters.
Eating hot sauce on everything will help you shed the weight, NO IT WON'T!!! Any calories you burn off will be minimum at best and you should really just do it to personal taste unless you are using it to control portion intake.

General Tips and Lifestyle:

Don't eat dinner late, keep it between 5 and 6 pm, as then you have 3 hours to digest and walk it off.
Aloe Vera gel, you can buy the flavoured juice or buy the actual plant, you simply cut up the plant and use only the clear gel, throw away the green as it is bitter, you can eat the gel in yogurt, salad, by itself, or put it in a drink. Lots of Asian cultures such as the Japanese, use this plant in their diet to aid digestion.
In Japan people really love to eat their vegetables; it is always best for 50-60% of your plate to be veggies, this doesn't mean take your normal portions and make half of it veggies it means, cut down your portions to normal, healthier sizes and THEN replace half with veggies. Japanese people are not all strictly vegetarian either, but they do include a lot of fruit, lean meats (sea food), and greens (sea weed) into their diet and usually stay away from high fat contents. Also, eating smaller meals through out the day is better than 3 large meals or 2 small and 1 large one.
Riding a bike everywhere, this is not just for people looking to lose weight or get in shape, it can also be a great way to enjoy the outdoors or spend time with someone. If it is close enough, maybe ride your bike to work every once in a while to see how you like it, you might find you feel much better by the end of the day from the small workout in the mornings.
Enjoy the scenery, being outdoors is actually proven to improve your mood, the electromagnetic field of the earth actually helps improve health and cure anxiety and depression which is why if you go to the park for a few hours you will feel yourself relax.