THE 16 BIGGEST FOOD MYTHS OF ALL TIME
01 BREAKFAST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL OF THE DAY
“Cereal companies put a lot of marketing money into making people believe this,” says PT Hendrick Famutimi, who dismantles health pseudoscience via @thefitnesstruth. “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. 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. Instead, simply eating 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.
02 IF YOU EAT CARBS AFTER 6PM, THEY’LL BE STORED AS FAT
“Some people think that if you eat carbs before going to
