whats the worst "food myth" you have heard?
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this isn't a food myth, but it is truly ridiculous...
someone on here months ago was complaining about not losing weight, eating their exercise cals, etc and the reply was, "you have to wait at least a week for your bones to shrink" and then "you'll start losing real fast"...i had to read that entry 3 or 4 times before my brain even even realized how utterly stupid it was...
Why is that stupid? bones do shrink if you don't use them. Google osteoclasts, we all have them. If you lose a lot of weight your bones will probably shrink as they dont have to do as much weight bearing. However, I don't know why anyone would WANT their bones to shrink. That is stupid.0 -
Spunk is a good protein source
...Isn't it? :O
Yes dear, ignore that previous statement
spunk is not a significant source of protein..... but is an awesome source of iron! Honest... they had nutritional breakdown in Maxim magazine years ago :drinker: drink up!
Not sure if you're serious, or not. I'm borderline anemic and I haven't seen much difference in my iron levels. But that could be because I don't generally have a "shot of iron" before I give blood or go in for bloodwork. *wink* (I might just have to test this now.)0 -
Diet soda is better than regular.
Peanut butter makes you fat.
Starving yourself is the best way to lose weight.
Negative calories.
White potatoes have no nutritional value.0 -
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.
Yeah, I was just thinking that my dad who is a diabetic has to watch his cheese intake because it spikes his blood sugar..... don't know if low fat is any different than regular, but it does have sugar0 -
In India, they think eating cookies, cereals, fruit juice etc can make you catch a cold.0
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If they are vegetarian and fat it's likely from eating too much high-calorie dense food such as bread and pasta and cheese (if lacto-ovo). It's unlikely due to eating too many fruits and vegetables.Fruits and vegetable calories don't count because they are "natural".
These people have obviously never met the fat vegetarians I have.
And again lol...if you eat too many calories in fruits and vegetables...you will get fat.
You can say 'unlikely' if you want, but it doesn't change the implied message in your comment.
/sigh
Have you tried to eat too many fruits and vegetables. It would be VERY difficult. For example, to hit 2000 calories, I'd have to eat over 20 apples!!0 -
No eating after 7/8 pm.0
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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?
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If they are vegetarian and fat it's likely from eating too much high-calorie dense food such as bread and pasta and cheese (if lacto-ovo). It's unlikely due to eating too many fruits and vegetables.Fruits and vegetable calories don't count because they are "natural".
These people have obviously never met the fat vegetarians I have.
And again lol...if you eat too many calories in fruits and vegetables...you will get fat.
You can say 'unlikely' if you want, but it doesn't change the implied message in your comment.
/sigh
Have you tried to eat too many fruits and vegetables. It would be VERY difficult. For example, to hit 2000 calories, I'd have to eat over 20 apples!!
One medium/small avacado is roughly 250cal. One apple with 4tbsp natural peanut butter is 500cal (I'm assuming vegans are allowed to eat peanut butter...I've never bothered to look into it, it seems silly to me).
I don't feel like going through a list of high calorie fruits and vegetables...but it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility to go over 2000 calories if you're eating a healthy balance of nothing more than...fruits and vegetables.0 -
Diet soda is better than regular.
Depends on your opinion of artificial sweeteners, I guess. I think diet soda is better for you than regular soda. Regular soda (which I enjoy on occasion) is sugar water. It has almost no nutritional value, yet costs you 140+ calories. At least the diet soda is nutritionally empty, but almost no calories. Both have chemicals and other crap in them.0 -
If they are vegetarian and fat it's likely from eating too much high-calorie dense food such as bread and pasta and cheese (if lacto-ovo). It's unlikely due to eating too many fruits and vegetables.Fruits and vegetable calories don't count because they are "natural".
These people have obviously never met the fat vegetarians I have.
And again lol...if you eat too many calories in fruits and vegetables...you will get fat.
You can say 'unlikely' if you want, but it doesn't change the implied message in your comment.
/sigh
Have you tried to eat too many fruits and vegetables. It would be VERY difficult. For example, to hit 2000 calories, I'd have to eat over 20 apples!!
One medium/small avacado is roughly 250cal. One apple with 4tbsp natural peanut butter is 500cal (I'm assuming vegans are allowed to eat peanut butter...I've never bothered to look into it, it seems silly to me).
I don't feel like going through a list of high calorie fruits and vegetables...but it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility to go over 2000 calories if you're eating a healthy balance of nothing more than...fruits and vegetables.
No one said it was outside the realm of possibility. But it would be incredibly difficult to do. Certainly there are SOME calorie dense natural foods (nuts, avacados), but most are not. And I think the previous guy's statement that, "If they are vegetarian and fat it's likely from eating too much high-calorie dense food such as bread and pasta and cheese." It's doubtful that they are fat because they are just eating too many avocados and peanuts.0 -
'Red Bull gives you wings'
so disappointed when I found out this was a myth.
Yes, this is a disappointment, if only my brother had figured that out sooner. RIP my little brother.0 -
maybe im wrong but im pretty sure you can only gain with a calorie surplus (not taking into account some sort of medical issue)Today my housemate told Me that diet coke makes you gain weight. I don't drink diet coke but am now going to drink an entire carton of diet coke in aweek just to prove that I won't gain weight. She's buying them so how could I refuse. I love being right
There is research that suggests that artificial sweeteners lead to an insulin response (depends which one you use - google it) and thus it is likely. .
nope. you're right. calories make weight. so a no-calorie substance cannot, in and of itself, cause any kind of weight gain unless it somehow defies all known laws of physics.0 -
If they are vegetarian and fat it's likely from eating too much high-calorie dense food such as bread and pasta and cheese (if lacto-ovo). It's unlikely due to eating too many fruits and vegetables.Fruits and vegetable calories don't count because they are "natural".
These people have obviously never met the fat vegetarians I have.
And again lol...if you eat too many calories in fruits and vegetables...you will get fat.
You can say 'unlikely' if you want, but it doesn't change the implied message in your comment.
/sigh
Have you tried to eat too many fruits and vegetables. It would be VERY difficult. For example, to hit 2000 calories, I'd have to eat over 20 apples!!
One medium/small avacado is roughly 250cal. One apple with 4tbsp natural peanut butter is 500cal (I'm assuming vegans are allowed to eat peanut butter...I've never bothered to look into it, it seems silly to me).
I don't feel like going through a list of high calorie fruits and vegetables...but it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility to go over 2000 calories if you're eating a healthy balance of nothing more than...fruits and vegetables.
No one said it was outside the realm of possibility. But it would be incredibly difficult to do. Certainly there are SOME calorie dense natural foods (nuts, avacados), but most are not. And I think the previous guy's statement that, "If they are vegetarian and fat it's likely from eating too much high-calorie dense food such as bread and pasta and cheese." It's doubtful that they are fat because they are just eating too many avocados and peanuts.
How is eating 2000 calories with foods like I included, incredibly difficult? A medium salad with even half a regular avacado and a peanut butter apple snack and you're halfway there.
And regardless of what his point actually was (which I understood), the message he gave was incorrect. Eating too much of ANYTHING (meaning over your calorie limit), including fruits and vegetables will make you fat. His message implied that that wasn't the case.0 -
Fruit causes diabetes..0
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egg yolks are bad for you, only eat the white.
dietary fat makes you fat
carbs make you fat
eating after 6 makes you fat
if you don't eat breakfast, you will be fat
you must eat 6 small meals a day or your metabolism will be slower (and you will be fat)
apples and celery = negative calories so eat unlimited amounts and ...you won't be fat
and this has NOTHING to do with food but let me throw in:
women lifting heavy will turn into guys and looks bulky and manly.
GRRRRRRRR0 -
GRAPEFRUITS CUT FAT:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0
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A raw food diet is the healthiest.0
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this isn't a food myth, but it is truly ridiculous...
someone on here months ago was complaining about not losing weight, eating their exercise cals, etc and the reply was, "you have to wait at least a week for your bones to shrink" and then "you'll start losing real fast"...i had to read that entry 3 or 4 times before my brain even even realized how utterly stupid it was...
Why is that stupid? bones do shrink if you don't use them. Google osteoclasts, we all have them. If you lose a lot of weight your bones will probably shrink as they dont have to do as much weight bearing. However, I don't know why anyone would WANT their bones to shrink. That is stupid.
you're saying that bones will shrink in a week? that was what i was quoting, that someone actually thinks bones will shrink in a week or so and that is the key to losing weight...really?0 -
My coworkers congregate over anyone who loses weight or appears to be eating healthy for some magic tip.
apparently the new guy is the guru and he informed my overweight, sedentary coworkers that an apple microwaved in bacon fat was a healthy snack0 -
I do enjoy all the stabs at the various diets out there...
So far I have seen trash talk albeit someone passive on
Raw diets
Paleo diets
Low Carb diets
Etc by indicating that the foundation of these diets is a myth...
Lol gotta love the passive aggressive community here!0 -
My mother in law once lectured my son about how terrible seedless watermelon is for you (one of his favorite foods), because God made the fruit with seeds and seedless fruit is from the devil because it isn't natural. SHE WAS EATING A TWIX BAR WHILE SHE TOLD HIM THIS!0
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"fruits are bad because they are full of sugar"
~shudddder~
OH, I HATE that one!0 -
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-dairy makes you congested (not true and not scientifically possible)
-chocolate causes acne
-carbs make you fat. (eating more calories than you expend makes you fat, WHAT you eat actually has very little to do with gaining or losing weight)
Chocolate causes acne? My grandma always told me eating greasy foods causes acne (which if was true, I shouldn't have eaten half of her cooking. She makes the best fried chicken)0 -
My coworkers congregate over anyone who loses weight or appears to be eating healthy for some magic tip.
apparently the new guy is the guru and he informed my overweight, sedentary coworkers that an apple microwaved in bacon fat was a healthy snack
I don't find this to be a bad myth or a myth at all.0 -
I do enjoy all the stabs at the various diets out there...
So far I have seen trash talk albeit someone passive on
Raw diets
Paleo diets
Low Carb diets
Etc by indicating that the foundation of these diets is a myth...
Lol gotta love the passive aggressive community here!
They're pretty ****ty diets.0 -
The only fluid that counts for hydration is plain water straight up. If that were true I'd have shriveled up and blown away years ago.
Oh. And if you swallow an apple seed a tree will grow in your belly. Still waiting on that one!
That apple seed one is the funniest one so far!0
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