What is the WORST food and nutrition advice....

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  • Over the years I even a number of dieticians and have heard some ridiculous suggestions. The one I'm about to tell you left me scratching my head for a while to say the least.

    I was told that if I really want schnitzel I should make it without the breadcrumb and just fry the meat on it's own. I walked out of their office flabbergasted and never set foot in there again.

    It kind of defeats the purpose of calling it schnitzel if it isn't crumbed and the way I make it (from scratch .... I've never bought and will never buy the pre made) it really isn't that unhealthy for you.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    eat six small meals a day to stroke your metabolic fire = BS

    or - if you do not eat six small meals a day you will go into starvation mode = this sounds like nails scraping across black board...shivering...

    I don't think it really matters, I eat little meals all day. Never been overweight

    ??

    but eating six small meals has nothing to do with increasing metabolism...
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    "In order to be elite, you have to eat clean"

    QFT!
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    "In order to be elite, you have to eat clean"

    QFT!

    says mr. elite himself. :laugh:
  • DavPul
    DavPul Posts: 61,406 Member
    "In order to be elite, you have to eat clean"

    QFT!

    says mr. elite himself. :laugh:

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  • gfedex
    gfedex Posts: 226 Member
    Definitely the do's and don't that came out when the GI index came to prominence. The "don't eat carrots!" bit sticks out in particular.
  • Bakkasan
    Bakkasan Posts: 1,027 Member
    My husband's entire family did HCG and tried to get me to go on it with them.

    I admit I may have been suckered into the hype here. Now I take it because I need to, and it still doesn't help weight.
  • Bakkasan
    Bakkasan Posts: 1,027 Member
    I heard a disturbing radio commercial once for a cat farm in my state. They were promoting ingesting cats for their lean meat qualities. Eww eww eww eww. I keep cats as family members, not dinner.

    ....not THE one I was talking about, but if you don't believe me, places like this do exist... http://www.kittybeef.com/faq.php

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManBeef.com

    http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=17867
  • Over the years I even a number of dieticians and have heard some ridiculous suggestions. The one I'm about to tell you left me scratching my head for a while to say the least.

    I was told that if I really want schnitzel I should make it without the breadcrumb and just fry the meat on it's own. I walked out of their office flabbergasted and never set foot in there again.

    It kind of defeats the purpose of calling it schnitzel if it isn't crumbed and the way I make it (from scratch .... I've never bought and will never buy the pre made) it really isn't that unhealthy for you.

    On my second visit to my dietician, who really didn't tell me anything I I didn't know, the only thing she did that helped was getting me to log my food, and what foods to avoid for my health issues. Anyway she lost it when I told her I had been eating avocado "because of the calories" I never went back
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    Breakfast is bad.
  • fresh_start59
    fresh_start59 Posts: 590 Member
    eat six small meals a day to stroke your metabolic fire = BS

    or - if you do not eat six small meals a day you will go into starvation mode = this sounds like nails scraping across black board...shivering...

    I don't think it really matters, I eat little meals all day. Never been overweight

    ??
    but eating six small meals has nothing to do with increasing metabolism...

    It may not be a metabolism thing, but I've found that eating something, especially a bit of protein, every three or four hours keeps me from being super hungry. If I wait too long between meals my body doesn't go into starvation mode, but I end up eating like a starving person.:embarassed:
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    "My sister is doing Metabolife and it's working so well. It's ALL NATURAL! She's become a sales rep..."

    Yeah, Um. Un-inspected random "traditional chinese herbs," ephedra -- and enough illegal speed out of illicit overseas factories to make your heart explode? SIgn me the heck up.
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    Warm up coke and put ginger in it to fix a cold -.- thanks roomie...
  • leighdiane91
    leighdiane91 Posts: 225 Member
    eat 1200 calories. everyone else can do it, so can you.


    I couldn't do it. I tried on and off for a year. yep, all of 2012 I was trying. it just wasn't for me, I was so hungry, so angry and would binge like crazy. I have been eating around 1800 a day, sometimes more, sometimes less. And the weight has been falling off.

    I am not bashing 1200. but man was it a terrible thing for ME to read, it took a year to shake it and get it out of my head that if I couldn't do it at 1200 then I was a failure.
  • Drinking a shot of cider vinegar daily will "melt" fat.



    YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK! :noway:
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    What is the WORST food and nutrition advice...
    Anything said by Dr. Oz....or by any Beachbody, Herbalife, Advocare, Body by Vi, ItWorks,etc. MLM salesperson (I refuse to refer to them as "coaches" because IMO they haven't legitimately earned that title).
  • vanguardfitness
    vanguardfitness Posts: 720 Member
    just about anything coming out of a celebrity's mouth
  • THExNEKOxCHAN
    THExNEKOxCHAN Posts: 134 Member
    Weight Watchers. Fat Free. Diet.

    And about half the crap I read here too...
  • Slimming world ........ Bad bad bad
  • delonda1
    delonda1 Posts: 525 Member
    as long as you workout you can eat whatever you want.....
  • Fatandfifty3
    Fatandfifty3 Posts: 419 Member
    "You can never eat Stilton again." - in WW class a few years ago because it was a high cal cheese.
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    What is the WORST food and nutrition advice...
    Anything said by any Beachbody, Herbalife, Advocare, Body by Vi, ItWorks,etc. MLM salesperson (I refuse to refer to them as "coaches" because IMO they haven't legitimately earned that title).

    Yup, that is pretty much a joke isn't it!
  • JenniferNoll
    JenniferNoll Posts: 367 Member
    There is a woman at my gym who's pushing Herbalife on me. She's especially pushing some kind of tea that supposedly burns 80 calories just by drinking it. How is that even possible?
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    There is a woman at my gym who's pushing Herbalife on me. She's especially pushing some kind of tea that supposedly burns 80 calories just by drinking it. How is that even possible?

    Lol, it's not! But no more ridiculous than some the other claims by the MLM "coaches" around here.
  • JenniferNoll
    JenniferNoll Posts: 367 Member
    That's what I figured. I looked at the label, and it's got guarana in it. Basically a very concentrated form of caffiene. I guess you could burn 80 calories fidgeting for the next 3 hours.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    What is the WORST food and nutrition advice...
    Anything said by any Beachbody, Herbalife, Advocare, Body by Vi, ItWorks,etc. MLM salesperson (I refuse to refer to them as "coaches" because IMO they haven't legitimately earned that title).

    Yup, that is pretty much a joke isn't it!

    you're cute.
  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    What is the WORST food and nutrition advice...
    Anything said by any Beachbody, Herbalife, Advocare, Body by Vi, ItWorks,etc. MLM salesperson (I refuse to refer to them as "coaches" because IMO they haven't legitimately earned that title).

    Yup, that is pretty much a joke isn't it!

    you're cute.


    And you're not really a "coach", Mr. Salesman!
  • cleotherio
    cleotherio Posts: 712 Member
    Most of the recipes on the Hungry Girl website. She just combines all the fat free and sugar free items she could find at the grocery store.
  • PRMinx
    PRMinx Posts: 4,585 Member
    Cooking with butter will make you fat.
    Eating meat will make you fat.
    Dairy will kill you.
  • goron59
    goron59 Posts: 890 Member
    Pretty much anything in the Food and Nutrition section of the forums...