pseudo science and weight loss BS

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  • SheilaSisco
    SheilaSisco Posts: 722 Member
    I had a coworker tell me the other day that he has a friend who swears he builds muscle best by following this nightly routine: Lift weights, eat 50 grams of protein, watch 30 minutes of porn, go to bed. I laughed in the guys face... he swears it's because watching porn pumps in testosterone that will build muscle while you sleep. lol
  • almc170
    almc170 Posts: 1,093 Member
    I had a coworker tell me the other day that he has a friend who swears he builds muscle best by following this nightly routine: Lift weights, eat 50 grams of protein, watch 30 minutes of porn, go to bed. I laughed in the guys face... he swears it's because watching porn pumps in testosterone that will build muscle while you sleep. lol
    Broscience at its best! :laugh:
  • jg627
    jg627 Posts: 1,221 Member
    I had a coworker tell me the other day that he has a friend who swears he builds muscle best by following this nightly routine: Lift weights, eat 50 grams of protein, watch 30 minutes of porn, go to bed. I laughed in the guys face... he swears it's because watching porn pumps in testosterone that will build muscle while you sleep. lol
    Lol I think it has more to do with what he's doing while he's watching it. Definitely knitting. I can't think of what else it could be.
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member


    It's at this point that I force myself to step away from the computer, slap myself in the face, remind myself I am NOT a caveman and that millions of years of evolution have made me an incredibly efficient disease-fighting machine.. and if I simply take good care of my body, it will take good care of me.

    Huzzah!

    Mine is "African Thisberry or Thatberry or YaddaYaddaFruit will magically melt your fat away! Just look! Africans have known the secret forever!" You know why Africans are so skinny? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE FOOD.
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    I had a coworker tell me the other day that he has a friend who swears he builds muscle best by following this nightly routine: Lift weights, eat 50 grams of protein, watch 30 minutes of porn, go to bed. I laughed in the guys face... he swears it's because watching porn pumps in testosterone that will build muscle while you sleep. lol
    Lol I think it has more to do with what he's doing while he's watching it. Definitely knitting. I can't think of what else it could be.

    I can never concentrate on my porn when I'm knitting.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member


    It's at this point that I force myself to step away from the computer, slap myself in the face, remind myself I am NOT a caveman and that millions of years of evolution have made me an incredibly efficient disease-fighting machine.. and if I simply take good care of my body, it will take good care of me.

    Huzzah!

    Mine is "African Thisberry or Thatberry or YaddaYaddaFruit will magically melt your fat away! Just look! Africans have known the secret forever!" You know why Africans are so skinny? BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE FOOD.

    I'm probably going to hell for laughing at that...
  • cal1973
    cal1973 Posts: 306 Member
    I only have to look at a cake and I put weight on.....
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    Every trainer at the gym tries to push this "Fat Burning Zone" BS in regards to cardio, ...I guess my HIIT is "doing more harm than good" and I should go get a magazine to read while on the treadmill.

    Every trainer at the gym tries to tell me that I need to eat intermittently throughout the day to keep my metabolism burning, and they use the "stoking the camp fire" analogy.

    I was told that it's better to drink beer/alcohol heavily just one day a week rather than have a beer every night because your body will cease to burn anything else until the alcohol is gone.

    I was told not to eat late at night because it's stored as fat.

    ^^^ 24 Hr Fitness.
  • PaigeStephenson
    PaigeStephenson Posts: 19 Member
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2926239/

    Interesting article on weight loss and metabolism ... seems there may be some truth to the "myth" about frequent eating.

    http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/metabolism-make-over-fact-or-fiction - this is the summary of findings from the Rosenbaum and Leibel studies
  • bio_fit
    bio_fit Posts: 307 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!
  • jg627
    jg627 Posts: 1,221 Member
    I only have to look at a cake and I put weight on.....
    pecan pie maybe, but cake? Come on that's just silly. The sugars can enter your bloodstream through your eyes by electromagnetic radiation from really sugary foods.
  • xlolitabandita
    xlolitabandita Posts: 242
    That to lose weight you have to completely cut all of the so-called "bad" foods out of your diet forever and ever.
  • xlolitabandita
    xlolitabandita Posts: 242
    Oh, and for some reason a lot of people seem to think that vodka is 0 cal.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    If you burn more calories than you consume you will lose weight...wait, maybe that one was true...wait, I can't remember...I'M SO CONFUSED!
  • sbeisel1
    sbeisel1 Posts: 181
    Bananas make you fat

    Oh good Lord, do not even joke about bananas. Those things can kill you.

    true story. They're dangerous:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

    :laugh: "banana equivalent dose" google it. this is actually true, but its also true of EVERY food.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
    ban all bananas... untill next year they will be the miracle cure for some obscure disease... then we will have to ban eggs again..
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    the only "natural high" I get after exercising, is that I'm so happy it's over!

    Runners high is better than an orgasm.
  • sbeisel1
    sbeisel1 Posts: 181
    Oh, and for some reason a lot of people seem to think that vodka is 0 cal.

    oooh I hate when people say this of any alcohol!! :grumble:
  • NaurielR
    NaurielR Posts: 426 Member
    Oh, and for some reason a lot of people seem to think that vodka is 0 cal.

    oooh I hate when people say this of any alcohol!! :grumble:
    Haha, agreed. If vodka were calorie free, I would be getting drunk waaay more often.

    How about the one that you can target burn fat by working out that body part. Like doing crunches will burn belly fat, or doing squats will burn butt fat.
  • blturner1
    blturner1 Posts: 89 Member
    These are some excuses that I have heard to ignore the fact that a child may be on the verge of becoming obese:
    "oh, he's just big boned"
    "no reason to worry she'll grow out of it"

    Hm, it couldn't be the fact that your child is not outside running around and is eating nothing but junk all day long....
  • vendygirl
    vendygirl Posts: 718 Member
    Oh, and for some reason a lot of people seem to think that vodka is 0 cal.

    Oh if that were true I would be "drinking" my meals everyday!
  • jpuderbaugh
    jpuderbaugh Posts: 318 Member
    the only "natural high" I get after exercising, is that I'm so happy it's over!

    Runners high is better than an orgasm.

    Glad I'm thinking about starting to jog then. :laugh:
  • cherrybomb_77
    cherrybomb_77 Posts: 411 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    Because it sounds all scary and sciency? And like, science is bad, and stuff.

    Reminds me of people posting ingredient lists, thinking it must all be "bad" because they don't know what it is. Someone actually included "sodium bicarbonate" as a "scary" ingredient. Yep. Baking soda sure is awful.
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member
    Here's my list:

    Ordinary people can easily be put into "starvation mode."

    Everyone must eat breakfast

    Everyone should eat six meals a day.

    Everyone should eat even if s/he is not hungry.

    Everyone must eat a certain minimum of calories regardless of their height, bone structure, sex, age or activity level.

    If you are gaining weight, or at least not losing, the first thing you should do is increase your calories.

    Everyone needs to exercise the same way without regard to their goals.

    Working with weights doesn't make you bigger, and that if you are concerned about your silhouette it doesn't matter what kind of exercise you do.*

    You will never be hungry while dieting even if you are consuming a number of calories far fewer than what you are accustomed to eating.

    People who have maintained their weight well into middle age all have magical metabolisms

    Computer applications can flawlessly instruct you on what you need to do without your needing to make observations and judgments.



    *I'm pro weight work for women. I'm anti their being told that they will never get bigger and will all end up looking like well-proportioned fitness models.
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    Because it sounds all scary and sciency? And like, science is bad, and stuff.

    Reminds me of people posting ingredient lists, thinking it must all be "bad" because they don't know what it is. Someone actually included "sodium bicarbonate" as a "scary" ingredient. Yep. Baking soda sure is awful.

    I don't think we've had enough experience with GMO to know whether or not it's healthy. Take a stroll through food safety history, it's not pretty. If possible, I do avoid modified foods. I also try to avoid milk and meat that were produced with hormones. The problem with high fructose corn syrup is its ubiquity. It's difficult to avoid.
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    When they're doing things like breeding insecticide genes into the corn without doing any long term studies on its effects on humans, I have to wonder if that's really a myth.
  • theartichoke
    theartichoke Posts: 816 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    When they're doing things like breeding insecticide genes into the corn without doing any long term studies on its effects on humans, I have to wonder if that's really a myth.

    Aaaack! Good Lord I need to go research this.
  • bio_fit
    bio_fit Posts: 307 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    When they're doing things like breeding insecticide genes into the corn without doing any long term studies on its effects on humans, I have to wonder if that's really a myth.

    Aaaack! Good Lord I need to go research this.

    :laugh:
  • saraht131
    saraht131 Posts: 86
    I had a coworker tell me the other day that he has a friend who swears he builds muscle best by following this nightly routine: Lift weights, eat 50 grams of protein, watch 30 minutes of porn, go to bed. I laughed in the guys face... he swears it's because watching porn pumps in testosterone that will build muscle while you sleep. lol

    So this is why my fiancé finds it much easier to lose weight than I do!
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    Because it sounds all scary and sciency? And like, science is bad, and stuff.

    Reminds me of people posting ingredient lists, thinking it must all be "bad" because they don't know what it is. Someone actually included "sodium bicarbonate" as a "scary" ingredient. Yep. Baking soda sure is awful.

    It is possible that they use chemicals to do the GMO.

    We all know that chemicals give you cancer.

    ...but we're all going to die pretty soon anyway. Dihydrogen monoxide is an additive in practially everything, and it has been shown to cause cancer. 100% of cancer patients were found to have a significant amount of dihydrogen monoxide in their diet. Heart disease patients too. And diabetics.
  • ariant23
    ariant23 Posts: 161 Member
    Organic is better and healthier and chemical free *AGHGGH*

    Organic just means using chemicals derived from plant sources rather than mineral (digging up dirt and rocks) sources. We can't create molecules out of nothing. It has to come from somewhere and then be modified. Lots of plants are naturally offensive to bugs (think citronella candles, it comes from a grass). So there's a good chance a gene from a plant that repels bugs was bread into some corn.

    Think about things all the way people.

    "GMO is bad for you" :laugh:

    I have asked people 'why' a few times, and nobody has ever replied... funny that!

    When they're doing things like breeding insecticide genes into the corn without doing any long term studies on its effects on humans, I have to wonder if that's really a myth.

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