17 The Biggest Food Myths of All Time
1 Breakfast Is the Most Important Meal of the Day
“Cereal companies put a lot of marketing money into making people believe this,” says PT and health pseudoscience debunker Hendrick Famutimi. “But really, as long as you’re eating enough nutrients after training, your body will have what it needs.”
If you prefer a light morning meal, refuelling with gusto after your midday workout is a perfectly effective strategy. The same goes for those on a 16:8 intermittent fasting protocol.
Research suggests that it’s not breakfast that keeps you lean, but rather that people with a higher BMI tend to eat later in the day. So, what will make a difference? Eating your kilojoules within daylight hours can help: in one University of Pennsylvania study, those who ate out of sync with their circadian rhythms had poorer profiles of blood glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides.
2 Cutting Carbs Is the Smartest Way to Lose Weight
The term “carbs” may have become synonymous with bread and pasta but, in reality, they’re found in a variety of foods, from leafy greens to oats and lentils. “Are
