Some people stress more about food than they do about rent.

The problem is that many of us get confused about what food is good or bad for us daily, yet our health is failing. You're not alone in this.

Here are 10 common food myths you should know about, plus how to deal with each to ease the load off your back and cut your continuous stress on food.

These are the ways people have followed for the longest time.

1.Eating fat makes you fat with heart disease

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This one has a lengthy background, from the 1950s, when people were scared and wanted to know why there was a lot of heart disease during that time.

Scientists, especially one in particular, ignored the fact that people smoked like chimneys and instead told everyone that heart disease is because of the fat in food.

All of this and other things led to the government encouraging people to try and almost avoid eating fat, and people listened.

Then, food companies removed fat from the food they sold, but a new problem occurred because no fat in food means it doesn’t taste good.

To fix this, they bumped up the sugar (by a lot).

You can imagine all of a sudden, everyone was eating a whole lot more sugar than ever before in history, and I’m sure you can guess what continued to be a problem: heart disease + diabetes.

A lot of people today are still scared of eating fat, even with all the evidence being presented to them telling them that it’s not bad.

Fat helps you absorb essential vitamins, protects your organs, and helps you grow and develop.

We go into detail in our eBook in the “Sweet DEATH.”

2. You have to drink so much water a day

Some of us have been taught this one in school since we were kids, but it can become dangerous.

Our bodies tell us when we need water by making us feel thirsty. Overdosing on water can cause a lot of problems because your kidneys have to work extra hard to get rid of all the excess.

If it’s too much, your kidneys can’t remove that much water from your body, so the water roams around in your blood, diluting its sodium.

Some symptoms of this (over-hydration) can be nausea, headaches, or confusion. If it gets serious, the person could have seizures, fall into a coma, and, in extreme cases, die.

3. Carbs are bad for you

Because people are starting to understand that eating fat is not bad, some have begun saying that carbs (breads, pasta, rice, etc.…) are the problem, so now we have diets against carbs.

The problem is reader that humans have eaten fat and carbs for the longest time without a problem.

Nowadays, we tend to view everything from one of two perspectives.

This can be frustrating because something new always arises, and people tend to avoid the new “bad” thing and choose the new “good” thing.

Food is not complicated; don’t complicate it for yourself.

Just eat real foods, like people have for the longest time.

4. Eating REAL FOOD is expensive

When a farmer harvests food and then sells it at a store in the local area, it doesn’t cost as much as when he/she sends the food to a place farther away.

Similarly, it doesn’t cost as much as when a company creates a formula in a lab, buys the ingredients to make a product with the formula, hires factory workers to make the product and package it, and then sends the finished products out to multiple different places.

It’s not expensive, depending on which you choose.

For example, if we wanted avocados from Taiwan, we would pay more money for them than if we wanted them from our local area because it costs more to get them all the way from Taiwan to us.

5. You should count calories

When you see ‘calorie’ on a food label, it tells you how much energy is in the food right?

Ask yourself, how is it that one type of food can give you and someone else the exact same amount of energy when we all have different bodies? On a basic level, they are the same, but each is different and can process things differently. How is it that a person with anemia who has difficulty with iron gets the same amount of energy from that steak as you, who doesn’t have any iron problems?

Think about the last time you needed to know how much energy was in something before you could eat it.

It’s like trying to understand how much vitamin D the sun gives you so you can calculate how long to stand under it. It’s useless.

Since you don’t need to know how much vitamin D the sun gives you, why would you need to know how much energy the food you are eating gives you as though there is a bar above your head, like a character in a video game that tells you how much energy you have left and how much more you need.

It’s the same concept.

Food is not complicated. Just eat what you need to eat and avoid what you need to avoid if you have illnesses that prevent you from having certain things (diabetes, allergies, etc.…) or religious restrictions.

6. If it says organic, it’s good for you

This one is easy. Imagine a pack of cigarettes made from organic tobacco.

7. Gluten-free is the way to go

Gluten is a protein in grains that people with a gluten allergy and celiac disease can’t have, so they eat gluten-free.

Gluten itself doesn’t change anything in your health.

Still, many people seem to love the word “-free” after anything because they feel a need to avoid that ingredient to protect their health, even if they don’t understand what they’re trying to avoid.

This behavior causes a lot of problems because that same person in a restaurant says they eat gluten-free during the main course and then chooses a gluten dessert without realizing it.

The issue is that the chef and employees who tried so hard to keep Gluten away from this person’s plate during the main course see this, and they become more relaxed the next time they hear someone tell them they eat gluten-free because, in their mind, this is just another one of those trend followers when that new person has an allergy with possible life-or-death consequences.

Don’t claim something you don’t understand because you could unintentionally harm someone.

8. Sugar is bad for you

If we have been eating it for 100s of years as a human race, why is it a problem now?

As we mentioned when we spoke about how fat was made to look bad, sugar is filled in many of our foods today without us realizing it.

Just remember this: if there were just a bit more oxygen in the sky than there already is, we would be finished.

Too much of anything is good for nothing.

9. You need to follow every new diet

We have become a world that loves things to be either one side or the other side to make us happy, and we have decided to hate the middle that’s best for us.

If you follow every diet suggestion that comes out, you will end up frustrated and tired because it seems like an endless chase, and that brings us to the last of the 10 common food myths,

10. Food is complicated

food is not complicated, don’t complicate it for yourself.

Conclusion

For many of us, it’s a matter of either being unaware of our unhealthy food habits or mistakenly believing that our seemingly healthy habits are actually good for us. The effects of these habits on our bodies become evident over time and as we age. The key to addressing many of these health issues is to be conscious and informed. For example, the assumption that all organic foods are healthy, as mentioned in the post, can lead to serious health issues over time unless we are mindful and well-informed.

Take the Next Step: On the topic of habits, check out the post on 5 Bad Eating Habits You Should Stop This Year For Gut Ease. It’s linked here.

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