Your fave stupid food myth you've heard

RaggedyPond

Eating for two while pregnant.

TattooedNici

Mustard comes from crawdads (it's the yellow filling).

You can't choke on pudding.

Congratulations world, your i.q. dropped ten points from reading this.

misschoppo

1. fruit is bad and too high in sugar.

2. fat is the devil and should be avoided in all forms

ClaudiaTheNice

This might have come up before:

Some foods have negative calories. Meaning you burn more calories eating them then they contain. Everything from celery to broccoli have this magical power to make you thinner the more you eat of them.

RaggedyPond

Kidney bean carb blocker

Myhaloslipped

This might have come up before:

Some foods have negative calories. Meaning you burn more calories eating them then they contain. Everything from celery to broccoli have this magical power to make you thinner the more you eat of them.

My cheerleading squad lived by this myth in high school. Ridiculous. We should have just eaten what we wanted, especially with all of the calories we were burning!

levitateme

BBqing your food all the time will give you cancer.

This as a blanket statement isn't true, but charred food contains carcinogens which have been linked to cancer.

tennisdude2004

Broad beans are a food!!!!!!

HunterKiller_deleted

It always tastes of what you eat but ive never been told that it tastes of chocolate.

leanne9876

Coffee, tea, fizzy drinks aren't water and can not be counted as water.

What ? Isn't this true? I have read this before and been told this by so many people, I honestly thought it was true. I heard for every coffee, tea, fizzy drink you should have 2 cups of water to balance it out.

seleniumbaby

That if you put a cookie in your yogurt the calories will leak out Actually that's my own myth. How about...raw milk is "healthier" than pasteurized milk because of the "enzymes"?

RllyGudTweetr

Coffee, tea, fizzy drinks aren't water and can not be counted as water.

What ? Isn't this true? I have read this before and been told this by so many people, I honestly thought it was true. I heard for every coffee, tea, fizzy drink you should have 2 cups of water to balance it out.

snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

Drinking too much water can, in rare cases, lead to dilutional hyponatremia, which can be fatal.

Lavenda93

Drinking lots of water makes you fat.

tyediri

'You can eat as much rice and curry and you wont gain weight. Its once you start eating bread, cakes and potatoes that you put on weight'.

Having come from a South Asian background where rice is eaten everyday, sometimes 3 times a day, I used to hear this quite a lot. lol

Mischievous_Rascal

Anything to do with meal timing.

Wilhellmina

Almost all above. It seems like when people start with any kind of diet they loose their senses and step into the realms of fantasy...

DuckDynastyMakesMeLaugh

Coffee, tea, fizzy drinks aren't water and can not be counted as water.

What ? Isn't this true? I have read this before and been told this by so many people, I honestly thought it was true. I heard for every coffee, tea, fizzy drink you should have 2 cups of water to balance it out.

snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

Drinking too much water can, in rare cases, lead to dilutional hyponatremia, which can be fatal.

Also, from @Sarauk2sf http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/821181-myths-and-facts-about-hydration-requirements

JUDDDing

BBqing your food all the time will give you cancer.

This as a blanket statement isn't true, but charred food contains carcinogens which have been linked to cancer.

Yeah, PAHs, same stuff that burning and/or smoke dried tobacco has that leads to cancers.

ninerbuff

Someone once gave advice about eating protein with carbs because the protein will cancel out insulin response.:huh:

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Michelle9055

GMOs give you cancer
Dairy is bad for you
Fruit is bad for you
Organic is healthier
Grains are bad for you
Saturated fat is bad for you

BillnRVA

You are what you eat... what?

abbyoncloud9

You need dairy in order to get enough calcium.

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lacewitch

I'm alergic to salt....

eldamiano

That Santa Claus drinks Coca Cola....

tennisdude2004

You need grain in your diet!

likitisplit

We shouldn't eat potatoes because they are part of the nightshade family.

Arranna1212

Not really a food myth but..
You can't have a cookie because you're on a "diet".

TripZeros

"You can't overeat if it's healthy food."

or
"If you eat while standing up, you burn all the calories."

F00LofaT00K

Eating any amount of food will get you to a healthy weight IF it is the CORRECT types of food. i.e. clean or healthy or organic, etc.