Nutrition

THE REAL DEAL: Eating chocolate cake is like watching any movie made by Sacha Baron Cohen: there’s nothing right about it, so you may as well revel in how deliciously wrong it is. A smarter strategy: before you begin the debauchery, budget for the extra kilojoules – skip the starter, the bread or (ouch) the booze. “If the dessert is really tasty, it’s worth the sacrifice,” says Beaumont.

Last updated: Mon, 2010-07-12 10:32

By Lara P (not verified) on 2010-07-14 10:48

A lot of these "fallacies" are what my doctor and dietician have insisted I do.
I have problems with sugar and cholesterol, hence the white wine spritzer and reducing the amount of fruit juice I drink. My dietician insists that I drink 8 glasses of water a day, and that this is over and above any fruit juice or other drinks (even though I have before read that most liquids help with body saturation).

How can >expert< suggestions be myths? If that is true, how can we trust anything an expert says?

Elsewhere on your site, you advise that we consult a doctor about which multivitamins to take. What if the advice our >expert< doctor provides is also nothing more than a "myth"?

By Adrian (not verified) on 2010-07-14 12:13

Who is to say that this advice is correct? Most times, nutritional advice is simply one person's opinion. The best way to decide what is best is to do your own research and see what a number of different people think and then use your common sense to decide what is the best for you.