Almost every day we read or hear about new dieting systems or programs that will make us lose weight in a short time. But, diet of this type, there are some myths in this regard it is important to avoid.
Myth: By following a strict diet low in calories you can lose 3 pounds of fat in a week.
Fact: It is physiologically impossible to burn more than 3 pounds of fat in just one week. Weight loss is so consistent and subdivided into approximately 1 pound of fat, a good amount of water and, most worryingly, loss of muscle tissue and bone. The loss of muscle mass is indeed a serious problem because muscles burn calories all day even when you rest. A reduction in muscle causes a decrease in the number of calories the body uses every day.
When you lose minerals from bone, with the progress of age, may increase the risk of osteoporosis. What is the conclusion? The diets are bad for your health: do not follow it.
Myth: Foods like chili and ginger and drinks like coffee and cola burn calories faster by increase your metabolism
Fact: These foods enhance the metabolism to a very small, certainly not sufficiently to allow you to sit and burn your weight. Some people claim that the caffeine in one cup of coffee or tea can improve attention during exercise and also welcome the results.
Myth: Exercise is always losing weight.
Fact: Unless you undertake the training of the blue for a triathlon, occasionally attend the gym will not lead to a sudden and miraculous weight loss. First, exercise increases muscle mass and muscle weighs more than fat. On the other hand, the muscle tissue takes up less space, so you might begin to notice that your clothes there are wider. To lose from 500 grams to 1 pound of body fat per week should increase the daily physical activity and begin to eat less.
Myth: If you eat only foods free of fat you lose pounds quickly.
Fact: No fat does not mean no calorie. All these new cakes, biscuits and dairy products almost devoid of fat that fill the shelves of our supermarkets have certainly reduced in fat, but still provide the calories of carbohydrates. We must remember that our body needs fat-soluble vitamins and fatty acids that are essential, as the name suggests, need to stay healthy. These elements are found in vegetable oils, nuts, seeds and fatty fish such as mackerel, sardines and tuna.
Myth: Both my mother and my grandmother are overweight, so inevitably I will be too.
Fact: You do not inherit obesity but only a tendency to become so. The women in your family probably tend to accumulate fat around the thighs and abdomen for men, but whether you fat accumulation depend largely on the type of life that take me.
If the amount of calories that you take each day is equal to that burn, not to get fat at any point of the body, regardless of the physical conformation of your parents. However, it's going to inherit the habits and life by people who have grown up.
So we must abandon those habits, eating well and physical activity. Not only will look better and feel better, but will create a new and correct model for your children.
