Some Diet Myths Unfolded

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Until a few years ago we were all prescribed the same protein, low fat, high carbohydrate diet and it was considered as the perfect diet for all of us. This diet will do the same for all of us. That we’d lose weight, lower our cholesterol and improve our health and fitness. But as time passed and more research went into it, it was found that this type of one for all diet resulted in rise in obesity along with side effect of ever-growing cases in diabetes. Do you know eating a low-fat diet can actually raise cholesterol?

Scientists have reached a conclusion that diet is about individual body type. It has to be tailor-made for each one of us depending upon our biochemical individuality, meaning metabolic type. The same nutrient can have different effects in different Metabolic Type of people, or for that matter the same disease can arise in different Metabolic Types for opposite biochemical reasons. One Diet For All is a passé.

Lets explore and discuss some popular diet myths.

It was believed that nutrients are nutrients no matter what form they are in. Where as according to studies the carriers of nutrients also have a powerful role to play. Depending on the Metabolic Type, any nutrient can be acidifying or alkalinizing.

Drinking lots of orange juice helps get rid of a cold is again a diet myth. Colds and flus are viruses. All viruses thrive in an alkaline biochemical environment. Orange juice is a highly alkalinizing thing, and is one of the worst things you can have as a measure to prevent and fight off a cold or flu virus.
You can eat the best organic foods, take the finest supplements money can buy, drink plenty of pure water, get sufficient rest and exercise regularly, but if you do not meet the needs of your Metabolic Type, you’ll only be wasting your time and money.

All of us should include calcium or vitamin C, or anti-oxidants, etc as a part of our supplement intake is again a diet myth. The reality is as the old adage goes “one’s food is another’s poison.” This is the reason why one should only take those supplements that are right for your Metabolic Type. SO the firth thing you need to know is your metabolic type. Unless you know your body type and how it reacts to various foods and supplements you’d never come to know what is right for you. Excess of vitamin C, especially if it does not go with your body type or from a source that will not gel with your body’s biochemical type, it can deteriorate your immune system and can even cause cancer! Too much calcium has also been the cause of osteoporosis in some cases.

People believe that you can take all the supplements you can lay your hands on and afford. Your body will take what it needs and reject the rest. In reality this is not how things work. Such misconceptions ignore the reality of cause and effect. The Supplement you consume either stimulate or sedate organs, systems and control mechanisms. If you take the wrong nutrients or the formulations, which is against your metabolic type, you will deteriorate your existing imbalances further or there are chances that you will create new imbalance. Nutrients do have the power to heal, but they also have the power to make you unwell if they do not go with for your Metabolic Type.

So you need to keep a few of these facts in mind before you jump on to a diet or exercise regime. Talk to your doctor and find out your nutritional type. That is the best way to keep fit and healthy.