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online Diets & Nutrition related Myths-Food is the basis of our
existence but all our food habits are prefixed. We follow what we have learnt
since childhood, irrespective of whether it is right or wrong. These give rise
to a number of food myths. Myths are what you believe are right but in reality
they have no truth in them and are insignificant Hence it is better to
understand these myths and separate the facts from the myths |
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Sugar
causes Diabetes
NOT TRUE. Sugar has no unique role in causing diabetes. Foods
that produce high blood sugar levels may increase the risk of diabetes,
but sugar has only a moderate effect on blood sugar levels
Sweating Rids The Body Of Toxins
Sweating does eliminate some of the toxins, but you'd die if your
body didn't have better ways of cleaning house. Physiologists point out
that sweat is about 99% water. The rest is salt, fat molecules, vitamin
C, lactic acid (a waste product of muscles), uric acid and ammonia. Any
drug you're taking can also turn up in your perspiration. Because the
body stores tiny amount of environmental toxins in fatty tissue, it's
possible that traces of these substances exit with your sweat as well.
But, the body's main detoxifiers are the kidneys and the liver. The
former sends waste products out of the body through urine, while the
liver breaks down alcohol, pesticides and other chemicals and shunts
them out via the intestines.
So if you want to keep your system clean, skip the sauna and the steam
bath in favour of caring for your liver. The surest way is not to drink
too much alcohol.
Chinese Food Leaves You Hungry An Hour After You Eat It
Maybe, if you eat the way the rural Chinese really do. That is if you
pile on a lot of low calorie vegetables like bokchoy and broccoli and
just have plain white rice, the meal won't have any calories - and it
probably won't hold you all that long.
But if you eat Chinese food Indian style, the calories should hold you
for quite a while. In other words, if you feel hungry soon after a meal
of beef or chicken with a heavy orange sauce or other sugar or fat laden
tapping (plus egg rolls, fried Peking ravioli, garlic chicken and fried
rice), that's your mind playing tricks on you - not your stomach
talking.
Sex Drive Slows Down In Middle Aged Men
Actually, stress might be to blame - it's the number 1 cause of erection
trouble today! Give your sex drive a boost, by cutting down on your
stress levels
Natural Cosmetics Are Better Than Synthetic Products
The term "Natural" has no specific meaning. A product can be called
natural even if an ingredient that truly comes from nature makes up only
a fraction of the product. Aloe and vitamin E are natural ingredients in
some moisturizers, but neither has proved effective as a moisturizer or
anti-wrinkle agent.
Moreover, some so called natural substances might even be harmful. The
juice in lime slices, for example, can react with sunlight to cause
contact dermatitis, and yet many people use limes to try to minimize
wrinkling and retain the smoothness of eyelids.
Kitchen cosmetics, in general, are bad for the skin. Cosmetic chemists
have things down much better than anyone can hope to accomplish by
tossing something in a blender and then smearing it on the face.
Drinking Water During Meals Hinders Digestion
There is no clear evidence that it does so. It's important to drink
enough fluids, but not necessarily at meals. The stomach needs water to
digest foods, but it draws in what it needs from the rest of the body,
temporarily. Also, everything you eat contains water, even meats. Fruits
and vegetables are upto 90% water. Drinking liquids with meals is a
matter of preference.
Antiperspirants Cause Breast Cancer
The latest internet hoax proposes that blocking underarm sweat causes
"toxins" to be retained in the lymph nodes, from which they somehow
migrate into the breast and cause cancer. The authors never name these
"toxins", and thus cannot present any proof that they might be
carcinogens. No evidence links breast cancer to sweating, or
antiperspirants. Breast cancer predates antiperspirants by many
centuries. Furthermore, there's no ingredient in antiperspirants known
to cause cancer.
Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever
Going hungry or overly full will not speed the rate at which you get rid
of a cold or reduce a high temperature.
Consciously "starving" a fever is a particularly bad idea. For every one
degree rise in body temperature, there is an estimated 7% increase in
basal metabolism - the rate at which the body burns calories to carry
out basic functions like breathing and pumping blood through the
arteries. It's not that the body will end u in a severe calorie deficit
after a few days of fever, but consciously withholding food if you're
hungry will only make it harder to fight illness.
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