Food Myths

Almost every day innumerable articles are published disgorging previously discarded food myths and mentioning some "superfood" that supposedly offers extraordinary medical.

Certain beliefs such as using margarine is healthier than using butter, eating carbohydrates causes weight gain, fresh fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than those that come in tins, and such like, never seem to die a natural death in spite of various opposing evidence. What we happen to oversee is the fact that margarine containing trans-fats are almost as bad as butter, whole-grains are in fact good for health and canned food are quick-frozen by food processors in order to preserve its nutritive value. Similar myths have also been repeatedly busted, but that does not stop them from becoming trends time and again.

A tendency to believe in food myths seems to be inherent in a lot of people, who ignore age old misconceptions that might have triggered a particular food myth to come into existence. A popular food myth that states eating calories during the daytime causes less weight gain than when consumed during the night was probably followed in medieval times when peoples nature of work was mainly physical labour like farming and hunting, resulting in their bodies requiring and burning more calories during the day.

A lot of times we tend to ignore various physiological and hereditary reasons that affect the way our bodies react to food, blaming food myths it. The most logical thing to do is to research and form one’s own opinion regarding these fads instead of following them blindly.