True or False - eating late at night causes you to gain weight? Surprisingly, the answer is false. The theory behind this diet myth is that when you go to bed right after you eat your body doesn't burn the calories off since you aren't active. Supposedly these extra calories are instead turned directly into fat, making you gain weight. Actually, though, the truth is that the time of day that you eat ...

One of the biggest misconceptions with dieting is that the fewer calories you eat the more weight you will lose. It's true that in order to lose weight you need to either eat fewer calories or burn more calories so that you create a calorie deficit. However, if you cut out too many calories you may be doing more harm than good and could actually be making it harder to ...

Perhaps one of the greatest diet myths of our time is that low fat diets (or even no-fat diets) are the best way to lose weight. In actuality, though, low fat diets not only are not the best way to lose weight, but they can actually be unhealthy. Let's take a look at why this is. A lot of times when people go on a low fat diet they become so ...