Diet Myth: Counting calories is the only way to lose or main

Since the body processes various nutrients differently, it is really the proportion of the various nutrients that is important; not just the amount of food eaten or the total calories. Calorie counting is not a science but a simple approximation of your metabolic rate. 

Calorie counting is but an indication of the calorie you use up daily. It does not take into consideration such things as your resting metabolic rate,your total muscle mass, whether you are an athlete or a smoker. All these factors impact your daily calorie consumption and effects your calorie count. The single most important objective is the balance of burnt calories with calories consumed. You know you have that balance whenyou deviate up or down from your ideal weight.




You get fatter from eating food late at night 


Diet myths hold that you should not eat past a certain hour at night because the fat won’t be burned by any activity. This diet myth is just that: a myth. Studies found that a large evening meal eaten late at night did not cause the body to store more fat.

The study showed that body fat is controlled by the amount eaten in a 24-hour period, rather than at the time of day. Calories are not as much of an issue as the nutrition in what you eat. Body fat should be appropriate for your age and build, but you need body fat.