pseudo science and weight loss BS

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  • beachlover317
    beachlover317 Posts: 2,848 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:
  • sportyredhead01
    sportyredhead01 Posts: 482 Member
    I actually purchased some expensive "firming" lotion a couple years back for my legs/thighs.

    It's actually cheaper for me to take 7 spin classes than buy the lotion
    that didn't work.
    Toned legs plus I get healthier in the process.

    I was so stupid. Live and learn right?
  • bio_fit
    bio_fit Posts: 307 Member
    ...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.

    Hehe. Oh noes! Not the dihydrogen monoxide! :noway:

    I think everybody needs to take a read of this site, before it's too late - http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
  • cherrybomb_77
    cherrybomb_77 Posts: 411 Member

    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.

    There are reasonable concerns around GMOs, especially regarding biodiversity and the tactics of companies like Monsanto. I'm in to whole foods, too, so I understand where you're coming from. For sure more research should be done, but at present, there's no (unbiased) data to suggest the GMOs pose a significant risk, so I'm personally not going to freak out about it. I'd also encourage people to look in to the work of the late Norman Boraug, who's credited with saving literally over 1 BILLION people through the use of GMO. TL;DR version is that he was a scientist who would go and live in areas where people were starving to death, study the area, then genetically modify crops that could flourish in the conditions there.
  • ChristineDiet
    ChristineDiet Posts: 719 Member
    Eating chilli speeds up your metabolism. BS - my partner's family are from Nigeria and they can eat some serious amount of pure CHILLI, with everything - but they still have a huge *kitten* and belly to match!

    I eat chilli all the time - cos I like it hot! Why am I on MFP again!!! clearly I shouldn't need to be! haha

    x
  • Shells06
    Shells06 Posts: 109 Member
    Edited to add the quote I was talking about... Is it time to go home yet???

    "The Shake Weight will bring all the boys to your yard...

    ...Oh, wait...that may be true."

    Hahahahaha :laugh: this made me laugh so hard!
  • cherrybomb_77
    cherrybomb_77 Posts: 411 Member
    Dihydrogen monoxide?! Why that sounds even scarier than sodium bicarbonate! LOL
  • ChristineDiet
    ChristineDiet Posts: 719 Member
    Zaggora pants, fat suits will sweat you skinny.

    I you just lie on a toning table it's as good as going for a run or lifting weights, similar for vibration plates.

    Those slender-tone thingies that you stick on your stomach will give you a 6 pack.

    hahaha. x
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    An overweight co-worker of mine was told by her doctor that she was the 'good kind' of overweight (?) and should just abstain from eating breads, rices and noodles to lose weight because for her body type that would be the best diet. Fast forward to a year later of denying herself of breads, rices and noodles.....yep you guessed it, she's still fat (may have even gained). But her doctor is still telling her not to worry because it's still the 'good kind of overweight' so just keep up with the low carb no breads. WTF

    ***I think by good kind of overweight the doctor is referring to the fact she carries it all in her butt, legs and arms...doesn't have a huge gut. But still overweight is overweight and she is big!
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    I moderate a general advice site (primarily geared toward dating advice but people ask all kinds of questions) and based on what I've seen on this site the worst fitness "myths" are perpetuated by females who are already at a healthy weight with a nice body looking to lose even more weight (because nothing bigger than size 0 will do and apparently if you have any shape to your body at all you might as well be obese) and males who dream of becoming MMA champions. The fact that the site's user base is primarily teens doesn't help.

    EDIT: One of my favorites is girls/women who try to get fit and lose fat by doing ab-specific calisthenics and calling it a day. They'll do some crunches as their only form of exercise and wonder why they're not losing the muffin top. GEE I WONDER...
  • carld256
    carld256 Posts: 855 Member
    The insecticidal genes actually come from some bacteria, from what I remember. The corn produces enough pesticide that the runoff can pollute the local environment. And it's not like it's something you can wash off ... it's in the corn.

    So, call me a pseudoscience believing nut, but I'm definitely cautious about GMO crops. We just don't know what effect they'll have on people long term.
  • Pururin
    Pururin Posts: 16
    Aspartame is a huge conspiracy in which the FDA were paid off to turn a blind eye to the fact that it gives you cancer and causes you to gain weight.

    Anything with Aspartame in it gives me headaches for some reason.

    My favorites have always been the shake weight and body wraps. Haha, or those contraptions that move your body for you that supposedly help you lose weight and/or build muscle even though you're not actually using the muscle to move.
    Also that you have to drink 8 glasses of water a day--just water. I tried drinking 8 glasses of just water per day and I had to pee a lot and would wake up in the middle of the night really thirsty.
  • kjerstenkipp
    kjerstenkipp Posts: 139 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.
    Crap, I have consumed a metric ton of dihydrogen monoxide...you can't get away from that stuff, it is everywhere, it even falls from the sky...we're doomed!
  • Gwoman2012
    Gwoman2012 Posts: 163 Member
    "I eat so much less than my skinny friend and yet I'm heavier!!"

    That is almost definitely not the case. And you are probably not with this friend 24/7 so how do you know this anyway?
  • lizziebeth1028
    lizziebeth1028 Posts: 3,602 Member
    The assumption that your plateau is 'starvation mode'......it's more likely that you're not logging accurately...under estimating calories consumed and over estimating calories burned
  • Phrak
    Phrak Posts: 353 Member
    "I eat so much less than my skinny friend and yet I'm heavier!!"

    That is almost definitely not the case. And you are probably not with this friend 24/7 so how do you know this anyway?

    This one drives me nuts, people see one or two splurge meals, and or see him/her on the couch and automatically assume that is he/shes life style.
  • belgerian
    belgerian Posts: 1,059 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.

    He actually makes it 30 minutes after about 5 I know what the plot is and ready for bed
  • opus649
    opus649 Posts: 633 Member
    Dihydrogen monoxide...

    Hydrogen hydroxide, actually.
  • chrisb75
    chrisb75 Posts: 395 Member
    The assumption that your plateau is 'starvation mode'......it's more likely that you're not logging accurately...under estimating calories consumed and over estimating calories burned

    The assumtion that its good for ypu to eat at a massive deficit for a long period of time.
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    i think im going catabolic reading all of these comments... time for another protein shake!
  • belgerian
    belgerian Posts: 1,059 Member
    Or that dumb HCG diet you will loose weight but it has nothing to do with only eating 500 cal a day. Someone almost had my wife convinced to go on this and it had nothing to do with the extreme calorie cutting. It had to do with the water they wanted to sell you.
  • ArroganceInStep
    ArroganceInStep Posts: 6,239 Member
    "It's easy, all you have to do is..."
  • ThickMcRunFast
    ThickMcRunFast Posts: 22,511 Member
    my favorites:

    -grains will KIIIILLLL you!!!!!
    -"I'm going to juice fast/cleanse/detox to jumpstart my weightloss"
    -you need to cut out fat/protein/carbs
    -cardio will make you skinny fat, just lift heavy
    -weights will bulk you up, just do cardio

    and many others, but the grains thing gets my scientist panties in a wad.
  • belgerian
    belgerian Posts: 1,059 Member
    I had someone tell me anything more than 20 minutes of cardio was a waste. So what I quit burning calories after 20 minutes???
  • ariant23
    ariant23 Posts: 161 Member
    I had someone tell me anything more than 20 minutes of cardio was a waste. So what I quit burning calories after 20 minutes???

    too funny, i heard the opposite. that the first 20 min is a waste, you MUST do it or anything else you do at the gym wont help
  • michelleepotter
    michelleepotter Posts: 800 Member
    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

    I was told you should always bring a banana to a party. :P
    Oh, and for some reason a lot of people seem to think that vodka is 0 cal.

    Of course not, but whiskey definitely is. :P
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    "I eat so much less than my skinny friend and yet I'm heavier!!"

    That is almost definitely not the case. And you are probably not with this friend 24/7 so how do you know this anyway?

    This one drives me nuts, people see one or two splurge meals, and or see him/her on the couch and automatically assume that is he/shes life style.

    well . . . I do know LOTS of overweight people eating 1200 calories or fewer a day, while I maintain 130 lbs. at about 2000 per day . . .
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    You are eating 1200 calories a day, that's why you are not losing weight because you are in starvation mode.

    This really makes me mad...there's nothing absolute.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    "I eat so much less than my skinny friend and yet I'm heavier!!"

    That is almost definitely not the case. And you are probably not with this friend 24/7 so how do you know this anyway?

    This one drives me nuts, people see one or two splurge meals, and or see him/her on the couch and automatically assume that is he/shes life style.

    My husband is like this. Every time when I rant about how hard the weight loss is, he would say something "You are not counting the bite you had yesterday". Come on, I have been good 7 days a week and one bite will change the world? but again...I still don't know all of it...
  • mommyrox05
    mommyrox05 Posts: 238
    Coffee just came out my nose when I read, 'or your muscles will fall off'.
    Hehehe!:laugh:

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