When it comes to nutrition, there’s a lot of information out there. With the advent of the internet, we have access to millions of ideas at the press of a button and we have the ability to truly educate ourselves on any topic we desire. With this ability, however, we encounter a couple problems. With so many bold claims out there, how can we know what to trust? In this article, we’ll go over 10 interesting and unusual nutrition facts that you may have been led to believe are incorrect, but will actually help you improve your diet tenfold.
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One of the biggest reasons for the lack of knowledge regarding nutrition in the US is our own media. Every other week there’s a new trend or a new superfood to help you lose weight. While many of them may work, again, nothing works unless you do. No food or fad-diet will help you reach your goal if you can’t put in the time and effort and commit yourself to reaching it. The best, most tried and true way to lose weight is simply to become educated on it. Once you understand nutrition, you will have opened the Pandora’s box of fitness secrets. If you eat a nutritious diet of whole, unprocessed foods and meet your macro/micronutrient goals every day, in addition to exercising consistently and reaching caloric requirements, you will find that there are no tricks, it’s just simple dedication. The truth is, most people know what they need to do to lose weight, but they cannot commit to the work that it takes to do so, so they instead adopt trends and fad diets that will never work in the long term. The successful people in the fitness industry are those who have adopted a sustainable lifestyle and never gave up on reaching their goals.
While many of these facts may have been commonly known among those in the field, they often come as a shock to people just getting started on their fitness journeys. Whether it is losing weight, improving one’s diet in general, or anything else, these facts provide good information on things that may have been assumed, but are incorrect. By helping share facts like this, we can eliminate all the hearsay from the fitness industry and prevent more fad diets from springing up because the one diet that actually works is just hitting your macros consistently and eating nutritiously beneficial and whole