Nutrition plays a major role in influencing our eating habits and keeping us healthy. People with knowledge of nutrition use that knowledge to make healthy food choices. So, it is important to gain and improve nutritional knowledge. We can gain nutritional knowledge from many sources. Most of the time, nutritional knowledge is gained from food labels, health magazines, family and friends, advertisements, and the Internet. As most of the knowledge we get about nutrition from different sources is perceived knowledge, it is not entirely correct. But in this age of abundance of information, it becomes difficult to differentiate fact from fiction.
Lack of accurate knowledge about nutrition affects our health, as we believe and adopt many widely prevalent health practices that are not backed by any scientific research. Let’s look at some such health myths.
Water is an essential nutrient and we have all been told time and again that we should drink 8 glasses of water every day to stay healthy. According to the article, ‘8 Glasses of Water a Day: Myth or Fact?’ in care2.com, ‘We’ve all heard we that we are supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day but there is no scientific research to back this and some health professionals think this requirement is ‘nonsense’. Another myth that many people believe in is that eating nuts makes us fat. An article about nuts in fitday.com says ‘The fat profile of nuts will vary from one type to another, so including a variety of nuts in your diet will help to ensure that you have a good balance of healthy fats’.
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