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When it comes to eating healthily — how to do it, when to do it, why to do it — there is no shortage of diet myths and old wives’ tales in widespread circulation. Perhaps you heard that eating celery results in a net loss of calories or that the grapefruit diet is your ticket to keeping fat at bay.
While some myths are easy to spot, other diet myths are more difficult to suss out and can lead to a serious case of dietary confusion. Worse, they can downright stymie your fat-loss efforts and fitness gains if you unsuspectingly fall prey to them. To help you determine which truths to swallow, we’ve investigated — and debunked — some common diet myths that don’t stand up to closer inspection. Psst … whole-wheat bread is not the ultimate enemy, and late-night eating is not a surefire ticket to…
