When it comes to improving your health and getting fit, there is a ton of information out there, and it is often not easy to find the right advice and understand the real facts and common fitness myths to dispel; let's discover the fundamental ones together!
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day
Several recent researches have shown that there are no major differences in resting metabolic rate between people who eat breakfast and people who skip it.
What's really important is What you eat, not When you eat it, so you can choose to divide the calories of your daily diet into different meals as you like and not concentrate most of them in breakfast.
Localized fat can be lost
Diet and exercise they help in weight loss and muscle building, but it is not true that certain exercises, combined with proper nutrition, help to lose fat only in certain parts of the body.
Fat loss, in fact, it occurs in a general way, in all parts of the body.
Cooking food destroys its properties
It is true that once cooked for a long time some foods lose some of their nutritional properties, but if methods such as steam cooking or boiling in water cellulose, the supporting structure of vegetables, is softened and digestion is facilitated.
The secret is to choose cooking methods with short times to keep the properties unaltered.
You need to drink 8 glasses of water a day
Many people believe that drinking 8 glasses of water a day is the bare essentials to stay healthy, but this is not the case for everyone!
Anyone who trains a lot needs drink more water compared to those who have a very sedentary life; to understand if you are hydrated enough, check if your pee tends to become transparent and if you go to the bathroom at least 5 times a day.
Milk is bad
No! Some people believe that the milk is related to the development of heart disease, but this is not the case; indeed, recent research has shown that theintake of dairy products carry a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death.
You have to train and eat a diet related to your body type
The idea of the three body types (endomorph, ectomorph and mesomorph) is outdated; in fact, there are many different body types and all of them can improve through two simple actions: diet that involves a calorie deficit in case of overweight and muscle building through progressive overload.
To close the series of common myths: Every now and then you need to go on a detox diet
Detox diets don't work for health and fat loss; Underlying detox diets is the idea that the liver and kidneys need to be cleaned to eliminate toxins, but there is no scientific evidence for this theory.
In addition, detox diets, often based on only drinking liquids for some time and this can lead to weight loss in the short term, but will be regained once normal nutrition is resumed.
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