Nutrition Myths part 2

No. 4 – Skipping breakfast will help control your appetite
Missing breakfast can often lead to bingeing late at night – which is exactly when you don’t want to take in major calories f you’re trying to get lean. There is an old saying, ‘eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.’ The concept is right on the money; your metabolism is highest in the morning and progressively tapers down throughout the day. Your calorie consumption should try and mirror this pattern. Breakfast is important, it should provide carbohydrates to replenish muscle glycogen levels and supply fuel for your brain and also provide protein to support muscle recovery. This is crucial in the morning as your body has been without vital nutrients for at least 8 hours!

No.5 – Three square meals provide all the nutrients you need to be lean and healthy
Getting all the micronutrients you need from 3 meals is actually quite tricky and might need those meals to be larger than is ideal. Larger meals are harder to absorb effectively and large infrequent meals can stimulate fat storage. It is the ‘norm’ or customary in this country to have 3 meals a day and fits into the working schedule, however a better strategy for better health and energy levels and absorption of nutrients is to have 5 or 6 intakes of food staggered throughout the day. You are less likely to have ‘peaks and troughs’ in energy levels.

No.6 – Fad diets don’t work!!
Some appear to work, as they promote temporary weight loss in their own ways. Your real goal should be a favorable change in body composition (more muscle, less fat). Fad diets can cause a loss of both fat and muscle tissue – with the loss of muscle further compounding the difficulties of reducing bodyfat. Bodyfat reduction requires a sound nutritional program combined with resistance training to increase metabolism and aerobic work to help shed bodyfat.

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