Food Truths: Don’t believe these Nutrition Myths

Nutrition is important to your overall well-being. Make sure you avoid these nutrition myths.

The internet is filled with millions of articles and webpages that contain misinformation about anything you can imagine. From news stories to health information, be wary of what you read and if the source is credible. Medi-Rents wants you to be your best and learn helpful health information. Nutrition is a major part of your life, so Medi-Rents will be showing you a few nutrition myths.

4 common nutrition myths:

1. Foods, like celery can have negative calories. Wrong, it is actually not possible for a food to have negative calories. Although very low in calories, you do not burn more digesting the food. It takes about 20% of the calories in a food to burn it, so you would still be left with a few calories from the celery.
2. Muscle can turn into fat. You may hear people say, if you don’t use muscle, it turns into fat. This is not true because muscle cannot turn into something else. It is true that you will lose muscle mass, but it most definitely does not turn into fat.
3. A detox juice diet will help you lose weight. This is a myth because there is little proof to back up the allegations that a detox can “flush your system”. Although a short fast can possibly help you get started on a weight loss diet, it is not necessarily the answer to losing the weight.
4. Diet soda can make you gain weight. Recently, there has been a lot of hype about diet soda making people gain weight, just like regular soda. A recent study showed opposite results, stating that diet soda can actually help to lose weight.

Your nutrition is important to your overall health. Knowing what is true and false about nutrition can help you live a better life. Visit Medi-Rents for your medical equipment needs.