Avoid eggs. Drink 8 glasses of water a day. Eating carbs will
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. Nutritional advice such as this has been touted for years but is it accurate
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, according to Wendy Repovich, an exercise physiologist at Eastern Washington University, who did her best to dispel several common
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during a health and fitness summit held recently in Dallas.
"Eating eggs will raise your cholesterol. " This myth started because egg yolks have the
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of cholesterol in any food, Repovich said. However, when eaten in
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, eggs do not contain enough cholesterol to pose health risks, she said. "Most people avoid eggs and
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they have any kind of cardiovascular risk their physicians tell them to avoid eggs, but really, there aren"t
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studies that show that one or two eggs a day really
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to cholesterol levels. "
"Eating carbohydrates makes you fat" is
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. Cutting carbs from the diet may help a person shed pounds due to
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from a decrease in carbohydrate stores, but eating carbs in moderation does not directly lead to
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.
Here"s another myth. "Drink
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water a day. " Repovich said people need to replace water lost through
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, urinating, sweating each day but that doesn"t necessarily total 64 ounces of water. "I see an awful lot of people carrying bottled water around, I think people are still
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that they have to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but most people don"t realize they get water from
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in the diet. " And too much water can be harmful, Repovich warned, leading possibly to
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in the body of sodium, a condition called hyponatremia.
It"s also a myth, that everyone needs
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, although Repovich admits to popping a multivitamin each morning. People who eat
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fruits, vegetables, whole grains, along with moderate amounts of a variety of low-fat
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and the right quantity of calories, probably don"t need a vitamin supplement, she said. "But for the most part, we don"t eat
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so probably a simple multivitamin is good for most people. "
