Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Kids don’t get high cholesterol Nicole Senior Fact: Children can have high cholesterol and the numbers are increasing in step with the number of children who are overweight and obese. The risk factors for high cholesterol in children are the same as those for adults. That is, being overweight or obese, eating too much …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Stress keeps you trim Nicole Senior Fact: Wiry worry-worts really give the wrong impression about the role of stress and weight loss. It’s more likely that stress makes you fat. And even if it doesn’t, the anxious “type A” personality or “stress junkie” is at greater risk of dying from a heart attack or …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Milk causes mucus (and other dairy myths) Nicole Senior Fact: Milk seems to attract more than its fair share of myths. This is unfortunate as it puts people off eating enough dairy foods when we know they are an important part of a healthy diet. One of the most common myths is that drinking …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: We get all the vitamin D we need from the sun. Nicole Senior Fact: My mother was recently told she had low vitamin D levels. I was quite surprised as she is an active lady who loves the outdoors and spending time in her garden. Living in a sunny country like Australia, surely she …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Eggs are bad for the heart. Nicole Senior Fact: Ever wondered why egg-white omelettes became so popular? Lord knows it wasn’t for the flavour! It’s a classic case of food egg-stremism resulting in the poor old egg copping a bad wrap. Eggs were shunned because of their cholesterol content, but looking a little deeper …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Colon cleansing promotes a healthy bowel. Nicole Senior Fact: While the idea of sticking a tube up your bottom and flushing your bowel with loads of warm water might make you squirm, alternative practitioners of colonic irrigation say it has a variety of benefits such as removing toxins, restoring healthy bowel function, and even …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Staying young is skin deep as any wrinkle will tell you. Nicole Senior Fact: Despite the millions spent on lotions and potions, youth and beauty at any age comes from within. Although fruit, vegetables, herbs, green tea and omega-3s are fashionable ingredients for skin care products, you’ll probably get better results by eating them. …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Myth: Some foods are aphrodisiacs. Nicole Senior Fact: If aphrodisiac foods are those which get you in the mood for love (improve your libido), then the hype surrounding foods such as oysters may be more folklore and fun rather than scientific fact. Human desire is rather more psychological than nutritional. It is probably the care …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
Why detox diets make you fat Myth: Detox diets are good for you. Nicole Senior Fact: Detox diets appear to be quite fashionable with the super health-conscious, and a boon for purveyors of books, powders and potions. Everything from weight gain, tiredness and poor concentration have been attributed to dreaded ‘toxins’ invading us from within. …
Busting Food Myths with Nicole Senior
I can’t lose weight because I’ve got a slow metabolism Fact: Many people believe they have difficulty losing weight because they have a ‘slow metabolism’ implying this is outside their control when in fact this isn’t true. (An exception is poor thyroid function which slows metabolism and requires treatment with medication). Boosting your own metabolism …
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