A Nutritionist Debunks The 5 Most Common Weight Loss Myths
Hint: there's no good reason to avoid gluten unless your body is intolerant
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Food trends often come and go and with them a lot of confusion about what we should and shouldn't eat for a healthy, balanced diet. There's a lot of misconceptions, weight loss myths, and it might be hard to tell what's what. With the change of working for home, the priorities of health and nutrition might have also been taking a backseat to cope with the new changes.
Karin Michels, nutritional epidemiologist and Professor and chair of the epidemiology department in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, gives her views on the latest diet crazes, the most common weight loss myths, and what the reality is behind them all.