Four misunderstandings about losing weight

The website of the 'family doctor' (www.familydoctor.com.cn), a health website in China recently summarized four common misunderstandings about losing weight. Inappropriate methods are not effective to tackle obesity and might be harmful to human health.

No.1 All fruits are equal. The healthiest fruit should be with less sugar and high dietary fiber such as grapefruit. Eating two apples a day is very good. With less fat and more fiber, apple is low in calories and easy to make people feel full. Bananas are also rich in dietary fiber. However, fruit like watermelon is not a good choice. It contains much sugar and calories, but with less dietary fiber, people are easy to eat too much.

No.2 All fast foods are not healthy. As the healthy voice increasingly rising, fast-food restaurants also make a lot of changes based on healthy consumer demand. For instance, baked potatoes, boiled corn, vegetable salad and other healthy foods are marketed. However, some of the fast food still have a lot of fat and salt, such as salad, fried chicken and French fries. You should be careful to choose species in fast food restaurants.

No.3 Lose weight by eating cold vegetable dish in sauce. Sometimes it is not feasible. Because some salad may also contain a lot of oil, ham, fried chicken and greasy salad etc.

No.4 With less fat, you can pig out. When you see the "low-fat or nonfat " label on food, you should be vigilant. This does not mean that the food is healthy. Because there may be more sugar to make up for the flavor lost due to less fat. This low-fat food may also have higher calories.

The article is edited and translated from 《再不減肥就遲了！飲食減肥的4大超級誤區》,source: familydoctor.com.cn