There are so many myths about eating.
You have to eat throughout the day to keep up your energy.
- You do not have to eat every few hours to maintain energy. This only applies when you are eating carbohydrates constantly.
- If you are eating protein and fat, you do not need to constantly eat, and you will not be as hungry.
- Throughout our evolution food was not available 24 hours a day 7 days a week like it is now. In fact, people used to have to spend enormous amounts of time procuring food.
- Our bodies have developed through adaptations and evolution, for the feast or famine type of eating.
Carbohydrates are necessary.
- Carbohydrates are not a necessary macronutrient.
- Without all the modern inventions, carbohydrate foods would only ripen in the summer and fall, so there would not be any carbs to eat in the winter and spring.
Fat is bad for you.
- If fat were bad for you our evolution would have gotten rid of all the people that stored fat.
- If your body did not store fat, then you would not have had the necessary fuel resources to survive lean times.
- Fat is actually good for the body to burn. Your body is smart in that it stores necessary vitamins in the fat so when foods are scarce usually in winter and spring you still have the stuff to keep you healthy. Like vitamins A, D, E, and K.
- Burning fat actually gives you a more stable energy that lasts a long time.
- Burning fat gives you more energy and focus.
- Natural fats are good for you. Like beef tallow, butter, lard, coconut oil, and olive oil. But man-made vegetable oils are made by a chemical process that is not good for you or your health.
Cholesterol is bad.
- Cholesterol is so important that our bodies make it.
- It is used throughout the body to make all kinds of things that keep us healthy. Hormones, cells, etc.
- It fights inflammation in the body.
