Written on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 by Miroslav Nikolov
9 diet nutrition fallacies
Diet nutrition fallacies and tips to turn them into weight loss weapon – this I want to show you with this article.
Which are the worst foods if you want to lose fats – burgers, roasted foods, pizza, milk shakes… the list is endless. But there are also many others, which can slow down your progress. Many of them are not what you think they are. May be the separation of the truth and the hearings is what has always stopped your fat loss.
So, check your knowledge with mine and see below, which are the most frequent 9 weight loss nutrition fallacies.
1)Spaghetti – This food contains no fats, so you won’t become fat.
The truth: Yes, they contain almost no fats, but with 40gr of carbohydrates in a cup, your daily carbohydrate intake will raise its level enough to stops
you achieve your diet goal.
The solution: The solution is to mix them with vegetables, rich in fibers – string beans, mushrooms and cauliflower. With half a cup low calorie carbohydrates for every half cup of spaghetti you will be able to keep the calorie and carbohydrate level under control and in the meantime provide your body with vitamins, fibers and minerals. “Good Foods, Bad Food and Carbohydrate Enemies”
2)Wheat – The best warm cereal during weight loss diet.
The truth: Yes, warm cereals with pinch of cinnamon and nutrasweet are great, but cereal products differ. Your body will absorb the wheal fast and soon you will be hungry again. Carbohydrates like these – called “high-glycemic”, enter in and go out from your stomach without to sate you.
The solution: Oats, oatmeal porridge, oatmeal bran and rye foods have slow absorption, suppress the appetite and deliver energy constantly, because of high fiber content. If you want to lose fats, oatmeal porridge is the right choice for you – it stays in your stomach longer and sates for longer period.
3)Grape – It is great fruit for diets.
The truth: Yes, the grape, especially the red one is sustaining, but this doesn’t mean that you have to eat it all the time. There are better variants, some more – the fitness star Beth Horn says that you can not suppress your appetite with grape.
The solution: Bananas, apples and strawberries contain more fibers and more fructose than grape has. The fibers and fructose will sate you, while glucose – type of sugar contained in grape can increase your appetite.
But this is disputable – which is better? Fructose can be very dangerous as you can read in “Argument against fructose” and “Another argument against fructose” where John Parrillo tells us another story.
4)Fruit juice – It is made of fruits, so you can’t get fat by drinking it.
The truth: When the question is about carbohydrates and diets fruit juices not work. In your stomach they cover very narrow space and you are going to feel hungry. Also, juices do not contain fiber (fruits do), which will increase your hunger even more.
The solution: In the other side, fruits contain fibers – this will help you suppress your appetite – so choose fruit instead of fruit juice. You can move fruit juices for breakfast - “Breakfast - my nutrition discovery and experience“.
5)Raisins – dried up fruits have fewer calories.
The truth: In spite of vitamins, fibers and minerals dried up fruits contain, they contain also 65gr of carbohydrates in half a cup, which makes them inappropriate food during fat loss diet.
The solution: If you want thin waist you need low calorie and low carbohydrate fruits like strawberries, peaches and plums.
6)Cold wheat breakfast – They are handy and sate.
The truth: There are many corn fast breakfasts with less sugar, but they are awful choice if you want to lose weight, because it is easy to overeat with them with no appetite sate. Even richer on fibers and no sugar fast wheat breakfasts contain more carbohydrates.
The solution: If your meals have to be under control, then much better are warm cereals with more fibers like oatmeal porridge and rye. White bread is good choice for breakfast - “When is the best time to eat white bread“.
7)Buns – You can not get fat by eating buns.
The truth: This is simply not true. One simple small bun contains about 45gr carbohydrates, in big one they are 75gr – too much in one single meal, especially if you are woman. They contain fewer 
fats, but you have to count carbohydrates in moment when you have to take about 3,3 – 4,4gr carbohydrates per body kg.
The solution: Good choice is rye or oatmeal bread – both of them are with the lowest glycemic index among other bread and they left in your stomach for longer period – this sates.
8)Turkey ham – it is turkey, so it is “clean”.
The truth: Turkey chests are very fat and calorie “clean” – 170gr contain only 3gr fats. Very often turkey ham is mix of darker turkey meat and skin, which raises the fats to 14gr in the same 170gr portion.
The solution: Choose “clean” turkey ham and remove the skin of turkey chests when this is your choice.
9)Slices of chicken chest – very good source of protein during weight loss diets.
The truth: Surprise! They are very good source of protein, but very often they are full of sugar and salt.
The solution: Read the labels and ingredients and search for chicken without extra sugar and with less 
salt. The rule is – cheaper slices of chicken chest contain more sugar and salt than more expensive.
Now when I look at my old habits I see that most of these were my mistakes too. But even now I still eat the same food. I am just more careful when and how much I eat. I systematized what to follow in “100 weight loss spots to check every day“.
Do you think that every food is allowed, but depends on amount and the time?
I also want to read your own fallacies before and now. Have you ever had?
May be many readers will say your or my habits are fallacies too.
The door is open for your comments.
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9 diet nutrition fallacies…
Diet nutrition fallacies and tips to turn them into weight loss weapon – this I want to show you with this article….