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    whats the worst "food myth" you have heard?

    Posts: 238 Member
    edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    my cousin is spouting some wonderful untruths this morning. just a few gems for you: (oh and all her friends believe her because she goes to the gym. BLAH)

    -fat free/low fat cheese has less sugar than normal cheese (since when did cheese have sugar in it??!!)
    -eating a fibre supplement (metamucil, benefibre) will stop your gut from absorping green vegetables..
    -steak loses half its protien when cooked.

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    • Posts: 1,308 Member
      that dietary fat will make you fat... i think its the worst one all time.
    • Posts: 7,646 Member
      Crust makes your hair curly! :noway:
    • Posts: 292 Member
      negative calorie foods
    • Posts: 49,193 Member
      Eating late at night takes the absorbed food and turns it directly into fat which is why you shouldn't eat after 7pm.

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    • Posts: 1,531 Member
      Carbs make you fat
      Negative calories

      That's all I got for now...
    • Posts: 8,980 Member
      carbs consumed before bed will automatically be stored as fat
    • Posts: 156 Member
      Sorry in advance but I have to dork out a little. Cheese may have sugar in it. Bacteria will "eat" the sugar (lactose) in milk in the normal cheese making process, but the bacteria doesn't necessarily eat all the sugar so there may be some left. How much sugar is left in the final cheese is very dependent on what type of cheese you are making/eating, though likely very low it might still be there. I realize this is nitpicky of me.
    • Posts: 701 Member
      Eating fat makes you fat...
    • Posts: 788 Member
      eating egg yolks will give you high cholesterol
    • Posts: 368 Member
      If you don't eat carbs, your body cannot store excess calories as fat
    • Posts: 420 Member
      margarine is better for you than butter.
    • Posts: 1,970 Member
      hmmm ... so many. sodium is the devil and sugar is the devil's evil little henchman. but you can't eat artificial sweeteners, either, unless you want to grow an extra appendage before dying from cancer.
    • Posts: 556 Member
      peeking through my window and seeing me shirtless spoon slaping flight of the bumblee will cause you to go blind
    • Posts: 41 Member
      Mushrooms are contain more fat than any other vegetable. ridiculous...
    • Posts: 63 Member
      Crust makes your hair curly! :noway:

      I was told this one by my granfather all my life and it was a LIE!!! Most devasting food myth :cry:
    • Posts: 1,860 Member
      Mushrooms are contain more fat than any other vegetable. ridiculous...

      Huh??? Never heard that myth before.
    • Posts: 8,980 Member
      if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
    • Posts: 238 Member
      Sorry in advance but I have to dork out a little. Cheese may have sugar in it. Bacteria will "eat" the sugar (lactose) in milk in the normal cheese making process, but the bacteria doesn't necessarily eat all the sugar so there may be some left. How much sugar is left in the final cheese is very dependent on what type of cheese you are making/eating, though likely very low it might still be there. I realize this is nitpicky of me.

      oh i know theres lactose in cheese but shes talking about sugar being used as an additive like the salt is..
    • Posts: 41 Member
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      Huh??? Never heard that myth before.


      An ex friend of mine told me that, but looking back on it most of the things she said made no sense, lol!
    • Posts: 363 Member
      if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?


      *snort*.
    • Posts: 41 Member
      if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
      :laugh: love this!!!
    • Posts: 153
      Hmm...This isn't a "diet" myth necessarily, but my aunt believes that the only healthy people in the world (aside from her, and she is quite overweight for her size) are skinny people....oh, and i hate when people hate on carbs/sugar/salt....and when my brother says things like "you should start eating paleo, I lost 8 pounds in a month eating a pound of bacon every day"--I think my arteries clog just from hearing him speak....
    • Posts: 210 Member
      My personal trainer asked me if I was eating "good calories" or "bad calories" ...
    • Posts: 13
      "fruits are bad because they are full of sugar"
    • Posts: 164 Member
      Sorry in advance but I have to dork out a little. Cheese may have sugar in it. Bacteria will "eat" the sugar (lactose) in milk in the normal cheese making process, but the bacteria doesn't necessarily eat all the sugar so there may be some left. How much sugar is left in the final cheese is very dependent on what type of cheese you are making/eating, though likely very low it might still be there. I realize this is nitpicky of me.

      Lol love it
    • Posts: 164 Member
      eating egg yolks will give you high cholesterol

      I know,this statement drives me crazy. Unless u eat 10 eggs a day, please people, eat the whole egg, not just the whites. Works for me , sofar
    • Posts: 2,247 Member
      my cousin is spouting some wonderful untruths this morning. just a few gems for you: (oh and all her friends believe her because she goes to the gym. BLAH)

      -fat free/low fat cheese has less sugar than normal cheese (since when did cheese have sugar in it??!!)
      -eating a fibre supplement (metamucil, benefibre) will stop your gut from absorping green vegetables..
      -steak loses half its protien when cooked.

      cheese does have sugar in it, approximately 1.26g per 100g.

      Metamucil, benefibre are fiber supplements and they do indeed inhibit the absorbtion of minerals from green vegetables, which is what, I suspect your cousin was on about.

      Steak shrinks when cooked, it does not lose protein but what it weighed when raw, will be less once it is cooked.

      Your cousin's theories are not as outlandish as you think.
    • Posts: 878 Member
      Being told growing up that I needed to sit up straight and use my knife and fork properly so when the queen cam to dinner, I wouldn't embarrass the family... b!tch never came :sad:
    • Posts: 37 Member
      if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

      +1
    • Posts: 3,138 Member
      if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

      This is why you're my friend.
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