Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: When it comes to food, fresh is always best. Nicole Senior Fact: Fresh food is great but our lifestyles no longer permit eating only fresh food. ‘Processed’ food can make a significant contribution toward health, convenience and enjoyment. I get a bit annoyed at those holier-than-thou health nutters who say we should avoid all …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Everyone should drink 8 glasses of water a day. Nicole Senior Fact: Most adults need around 2–2½ litres of fluid daily but not all this fluid needs to be water. Fluid needs vary greatly according to climatic conditions, physical activity, body size, diet and your health status. Eight glasses of water a day is …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: You have to avoid carbs after 5pm to lose weight. Nicole Senior Fact: The time of day you eat carbs makes no difference to your weight – it’s the total amount you eat over the day that counts. Avoiding carbs after five is popular advice, often given by people in the fitness industry to …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is worse for your health than sucrose (table or cane sugar). Nicole Senior Fact: HFCS is just another sugar with the same health effects as sucrose. We should be limiting all added sugars to achieve a healthy diet. In the nutrition world there is always a ‘bad’ food of …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Saturated fats aren’t that bad. Nicole Senior Fact: A large body of evidence says a diet high in saturated fat increases blood cholesterol and heart disease risk. However, an old idea has recently found new legs: the idea that saturated fats aren’t that bad. The latest rumblings were published in Lipids based on a …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: There are bad foods that should not be eaten at all Nicole Senior Fact: There are no bad foods. It’s all about how often you eat them and whether you get enough of the good foods The idea that ‘there are no such things as bad foods, only bad diets’ was once embraced by …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Food cooked at home is always healthier Nicole Senior Fact: Just because you cook it yourself, doesn’t mean it’s healthy. It depends on what you cook, how you cook it and how much you eat. Food and cooking are back in fashion. This cultural shift is punctuated by the phenomena of Jamie Oliver’s Food …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Nutrition labels on fast foods improve choices. Nicole Senior Fact: Knowledge doesn’t always lead to behavior change. The Victorian State Government in Australia recently decided to make displaying kilojoule (calorie) content and percentage Daily Intake (%DI) compulsory on fast food chain menus. And where you can see it when you order, not hidden away …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Sugar causes diabetes. Nicole Senior Fact: Sugar intake is not associated with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is not caused by one food but from a combination of diet and lifestyle risk factors. Of all the nutrition myths around, this one is the big daddy of them all. I used to work for a diabetes …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Why you can’t believe everything you read or hear in the media about nutrition and health Nicole Senior Misinformation, misunderstanding, misinterpretation and conspiracy theories abound about food, nutrition and health. You really need to maintain a critical eye to sort the wheat from the chaff. And it’s not just well-meaning friends, health food store employees, …
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