The Top Diet Myths: Here is Your Chance To Learn the Truth:Why is it important to separate diet myths from diet facts?
Often many people struggling to lose weight will reach for what appears to be a simple solution to a complicated problem.
They lose focus on what's important, become frustrated when the simple myth does not help them and just quit their weight loss plan.Almost no one believes that you can lose 30 lbs/month without dieting or that there is a pill that dissolves fat around thighs.
Yet people accept these & other unproven claims with little question. Most claims are either plan falsehoods, stories based down from generations or "Internet science." Some of the claims are based on "scientific" studies done years ago. The artificial sweeteners -cancer risk comes from a 1974 Italian study done on 12 female rats which could not be repeated. Here is your chance to finally find out the truth yourself. Click on to any diet myth for supporting evidence of "what's bull or not bull:"
Muscle Building Does Not Help Weight Loss: Facts vs. Fiction
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:17
Eight Important Muscle Myths & Truths:
Don't get fooled by confusing muscles with fat. Building muscle is desirable, but losing fat is far more important to your health. Losing 2 inches of fat from your waist decreases your blood pressure, chance of heart attack and cholesterol and prolongs you life by 2 years. That's important weight loss. That's really being healthy!
What can be said of building muscles?
Muscle weighs more than fat WRONG-one pound of muscle and one pound of fat weigh the same. Muscle is a denser tissue and takes up less room than an equal weight of fat. That's why it's possible to lose inches but show no changes in scale weight. One pound of muscle is the size of baseball; one pound of fat is three times the size and looks like a squiggly bowl of Jell-O.
Colon Cleansers and Detox Diets Are Dangerous: Part 2 The Dangers
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 10:59
A Triumph of Ignorance Over Science Colon cleansers are useless, dangerous and have no place in 21st century medicine. It is a hoax that anyone needs to clean the colon. They have no role in weight loss as well.
In another article I reviewed the fact that so called "detox" diets are a hoax. Not only are they useless for losing weight, they have no benefit for any medical problem. They are written by unqualified writers, many of whom have little to no credentials and some even have false credentials. An example of this kind of fraud is the popular Master Cleanse. Because it is so typical of the problem, I have enclosed an excerpt from "The fraud of Master Cleanse" reviewed by Dr Edward Zemney.
In this article you will see that they are dangerous as well
Drinking Water Does Not Help Weight Loss(Other Than Producing Some Fullness)
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Monday, 06 April 2009 23:30
The need to drink glass after glass of water is simple: Healthy people, living in a temperate climate leading sedentary lifestyles do not need to run around and drink bottle after bottle of water to satisfy the "8 x 8 rule" (eight oz. of water eight times a day) which has no basis in fact. The following is an extensive review of this issue:
No issue has caused moreindividualsstruggling to lose weight more anxiety than the “need” to drink bottle after bottle of water. The lay press is overflowing with the fact that water is need for "organ function,” quoting the fact that more than 70% of the body is made up of water. The claims that drinking 8 glasses of water a day is needed to flush “toxins” and other dangerous “poisons” from the body, for skintone, to prevent constipation, cancer, heart disease, and fatigue fill thousands of web pages.Weight loss, prevention of headaches, digestion, circulation, nutrient absorption and temperature regulation and a hundred more assertions often make the dieter feel guilty that he is not drinking his water.
Indviduals trying to lose weight have enough to remember and watch. Energy and time should not be wasted on the useless need to extra drink water. Here is why:
Antioxidants and Weight Loss: More Harm than Benefit ?
Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D.
Tuesday, 24 March 2009 13:22
March 24, 2009: Antioxidants: Benefit vs. Harm Anti-oxidants may not prolong your life, but in fact may actually be harmful says all of the recent evidence.They certainly do not help any weight loss program.
Jane E. Brody a science writer for the New York Times writes about the emerging scientific evidence that there is little benefit from taking Vitamin E or C in her March 24, 2009 article in the New York Times. She carefully reviews all of the emerging evidence that antioxidants may actually increase heart failure and not protect against strokes or heart attacks.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 16:12
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