Male Health Myths: the Top 10 Men’s Health Facts Most People Get Wrong
Male health: it is such an important issue these days, with many men concerned about their health, and some men just not caring about their health at all. With so much information about male health out there, there are many myths about male health, and in this article we aim to dispel a few of those male health myths.
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Male Health Myth 10 – Eating Fewer Calories Will Cause You to Burn Fat
If you think that simply reducing the number of calories you eat will enable you to permanently get rid of your excess fat, you’re sadly mistaken. Instead, you need to look at the TYPE of foods you eat. For example, you could reduce your calories, but have all those calories from chocolate. That means you’ll have no energy, a slow metabolism, and you will have uncontrollable food cravings. Not only that, you will tend to lose muscle rather than fat. Instead, eat plenty of healthy meals and snacks that make you feel full for a long time and provide lots of good nutrition. This will keep your energy levels and metabolism up, and stop you craving junk food.
Male Health Myth 9 – Knuckle Cracking & Arthritis
The cracking sound that you hear is usually just the release of gas bubbles or the ligaments or tendons moving over the bones. No evidence has been found which suggests that the habit of cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis later in life. However, it probably will annoy other people, so stop doing it anyway.
Male Health Myth 8 – Chocolate & Acne
Chocolate itself is not a cause of acne. However, having a diet which contains too much sugar and processed foods can possibly lead to acne, but it is not chocolate itself which is specifically to blame. However, chocolate can cause weight gain, so it is best to limit your consumption of it anyway.
Male Health Myth 7 – Saturated Fat
A lot of men think that they should avoid all saturated fat. While high levels of saturated fat are bad for you, a small amount is actually good for you, and can even help keep your testosterone levels healthy. As long as you don’t consume more than 15% of your daily fat intake as saturated fat then you’re alright.
Male Health Myth 6 – Protein & Muscle Mass
Protein is required for muscle growth, this is true. However, the body can only build a certain amount of muscle per day, regardless of protein consumption. So eating crazy amounts of protein will not automatically give you huge muscles. Your daily protein requirement is about 1 gram for every pound of lean body mass. Once you have reached that amount, you won’t build more muscle simply by eating more protein.
Male Health Myth 5 – Age & Muscle Mass
You don’t necessarily need to lose your muscle mass as you get older. As long as you keep up a regular strength training plan, stay healthy, and eat healthily, there is no reason why you cannot keep your muscle mass as you get older.
Male Health Myth 4 – Active People Can Eat Anything
If you think that just because you train hard you can eat whatever you want because you’ll just burn it off, think again. With the amount of high-calorie junk food out there, it doesn’t take long to eat all the calories you just burned. Also, by approaching your training in this way while eating lots of junk food, you are likely to over-train to compensate. This can cause high cortisol levels, and this in turn can cause an increase in abdominal fat.
Male Health Myth 3 – Catching Up On Sleep at Weekends
Many men make a habit of not getting enough sleep during the working week, and then catching up by sleeping longer at weekends. This is a bad way to approach your sleeping habits. Firstly, the extra sleep at weekends may still not be quite enough to get rid of your “sleep debt”. Secondly, irregular sleeping hours like this will upset your body’s natural sleep-wake cycle. Instead, make it a habit to get 7-8 hours sleep every night of the week.
Male Health Myth 2 – Salt
While it is true that too much salt is bad for us, we do need some salt. Salt is actually required for several functions in the body. If you think you have a lot of salt in your diet, make sure you also get enough potassium, to prevent your body’s sodium-potassium balance getting disrupted. While you should definitely avoid high salt processed foods, there is no need to completely cut salt from your diet.
Male Health Myth 1 – Egg Yolks
Many men think that eggs are bad because they contain too much cholesterol, but this actually isn’t true. Some men eat just the egg whites, but by doing this you avoid all the good nutrition that is in the yolk. As long as you don’t currently have high cholesterol, eating 1 or 2 eggs per day is absolutely fine.
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