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Weight Loss Myths # 1
Are you basing your fitness, health or weight loss on a non-factual myth? Follow this series to make sure your not!
Introduction to Women’s Weight Loss Myths
I have wanted to start a fitness and health myths series for some time now so I thought it would be a good series to help kick off this new blog.
Over the next few months, once a week, I will be posting a weight loss myth and will discuss its wisdom or logical problems. Feel free to contact me if you have any myths that you would like discussed.
Myth # 1: FAT MAKES YOU FAT
This is probably the first myth that everyone got fooled by in their early weight loss stages and it is probably still fooling a lot of people. It annoys me so much and I hear so many of my friends and clients talk about it that I just had to make it the first myth in the series.
Many types of Fat
One of the best ways to understand why this statement is rubbish is to learn a little bit about what fats do in the body. One of the most important things to understand here is that there are many (many!) different kinds of fats, each of which has a different molecular structure. To say that all of these types of fat serve the sole purpose of making you fat would be very silly.
However, to say that all fats are good for you would also be silly. A variety of primarily man altered foods play host to dark side of the fat world - take saturated fats in chips as an example.
Fat is good by association
As I mentioned in this core Women’s Fitness article, humans were much better off before technology and mass commerce started interfering with our foods. If we go back to the good-ol-days of hunting and simple eating we will see that a lot of fats are present in our most healthy foods.
Lean meat is a great example where by quality protein, heaps of nutrients and vitamins are present along side fat. This isnt a problem. It is healthy.
The problem occurs when we mix fats with other energy rich molecules like complex and simple carbohydrates. Having a high fat meal mixed with a high carb meal, for example, will make you fat.
Fats to add to your diet
It is really important to add fats like Omega 3 and to a lesser extent Omega 6 to your regular diet. These fats can be found in deep sea fish and some nuts and seeds. These are essential to normal cell function and can help prevent many diseases.
Any other fat facts people would like to share?
Comments on this article:
| Eh... not so much said: | Hi RT: Krista Dixon's website is a great resource for women's fitness and deserves a place in your links list. She also addresses eating here. As I've been learning in Basics of Nutrition class, the body needs essential fatty acids, which you get from - tada! - good fats! People on super-low-fat diets just don't look good; their skin is drawn and their hair starts to fall out. No more than 30% of your calories should come from fats, and the USDA recommends no more than 10% should come from saturated fats. Nuts, avocados, and salmon are great sources of healthy fats. Hope this helps! |
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