Is it really that simple? Nutrition and metabolism myths that seem to never go away

Scientific Health: Education and Human Performance · Sep 22, 2025 · 46m

How the weight management ideas that seem the simplest are often the ones that are misleading you.

We're revisiting two ideas that seem to weave their way into any discussion we have about the myths and misconceptions for how our body works. Ideas that have become so ingrained into our ideals about how our body works—the simple suggests that you need so many servings of specific foods to eat if you want to have a healthy body or that if you eat fewer Calories than you “burn,” you lose weight. If you eat more, you gain.

It's elegantly simple and intuitively logical, and for decades, it's been…