Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel and you're listening to the

nutrition diva quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous

the other day I was going back and forth with some of my Twitter friends about the issue of whether eating more frequently keeps your metabolism burning.

You might recall, I did a show on this not too long ago.

As I discussed in episode number 31, the evidence simply doesn't support this widely held notion.

Nonetheless, one of my friends says he's still swayed by some compelling arguments he's heard to the contrary.

And someone else who'd been following our exchange chimed in that

it's sometimes very hard to know whom to believe. And it's true. There is a lot of conflicting

nutrition information out there. Some of it very persuasive and convincing.

So how do you know whom to trust?

Of course, no one is going to be right 100% of the time.

We all make mistakes.

And there's the added complication that what we know or think

we know about health and nutrition is constantly evolving. As we get more

information and do more research, we sometimes have to revise our positions.

Now a good scientist is eager to abandon any position that's been proven false,

no matter how strongly he may have held or argued that position previously.

But unfortunately, it can be really hard for individuals and even harder for

institutions and government agencies to cut bait on outdated positions that

they've invested years and careers into promoting.

For example, as I mentioned in a recent newsletter, it's been clear for a while now that eating foods

containing cholesterol such as eggs or shrimp does not increase your blood cholesterol levels as we once thought it did.

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