Ten Food Myths: The Truth Revealed!

Sometimes it seems that there is more nutrition misinformation floating around than actual truth. It is hard to distinguish between what is fact- and what is mere fantasy. Read on for the debunking of some of the more common food myths.

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Don't Eat After 7 And Other Other Weight Management Myths

By Michelle May, M.D.
www.AmIHungry.com

Diets are filled with dogma about when, what and how much to eat. Certainly “the rules” are usually based on observations that make sense, but unless you understand why you do certain things, you’ll break the rules as soon as the temptation is greater than your motivation.

Let’s examine some of these myths, where they come from and how to make long term changes that will work for you.

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What The New "Low-Carb" Study REALLY Says

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.BurnTheFat.com

A news media feeding frenzy erupted recently when a new diet study broke in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Almost all the reporters got it wrong, wrong WRONG! So did most of the gloating low carb forumites and bloggers. Come to think of it, almost everyone interpreted this study wrong. Some valuable insights came out of this study, but almost everyone missed them because they were too busy believing what the news said or defending their own cherished belief systems …

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Wu Long Tea (oolong tea): Does it really help you lose weight?

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.BurnTheFat.com

You’ve probably seen the advertisements:

“Drink wu long tea and lose a jeans size every 7 days!”…

“Burn 20 lbs of fat in 30 days with wu long tea!” …

Maybe you even watched Oprah a few years ago when Dr. Perricone said that switching your coffee for green tea would help you take off the pounds.

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Irvingia Gabonensis Supplement Craze: In-Credible Weight Loss from an African Tree?

Irvingia gabonensis is the latest weight loss supplement to hit the marketplace, saturate the internet with advertisements, ignite forum discussions and flood my email inbox with questions. In the weight loss marketplace, this may gain the dubious distinction of becoming the next hoodia or acai (scam), but I'll just present the facts, make my case and then let you judge for yourself.

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Fish Oil May Help You Burn Fat...

But Not THAT Much Fat!

What the latest research says about omega-3 fatty acids and weight loss

By Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
www.BurnTheFat.com

Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere for the last several years, you’ve probably heard about the health benefits of eating fatty fish or taking fish oil supplements. Well, it looks like you might be able to add fat loss alongside the other benefits like heart, blood (cholesterol/triglycerides), brain, skin and joint health (and the rest of the list, which is too long to print here).

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Top 3 Reasons Your Fat Loss Still Isn't Working

Why do I say still?

Recently there has been a lot of talk of the importance of counting calories and measuring your intake. Who thinks though that it could possibly be that simple? If it were REALLY that simple what am I doing selling not one but two books on the subject? These are the reasons it isn't that simple.

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5 Tips I Know For Fat Loss

1-You can't overtrain a bad diet

Go ahead and bust your butt in that gym all you want but if you are still eating in an excess of calories then you aren't going to lose the excess bulge.

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