Your fave stupid food myth you've heard

Fruit is really bad for you because it has sugar...:noway:

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That you should drink water like it's going out of fashion and that it doesn't count if it comes from anything other than plain water.

eggs will give you a heartattack so only one a week sheesh I eat 1 - 2 a day (thats an oldie from the 80's) & and Avocados are fattening, my mum would never buy them there just fat she used to say, actually both of those are from the 80's

1. Fat is bad for you.

2. Simple carbohydrates aren't digested like sugar. (umm, that starts happening the second it goes in our mouth, as salivary amylase starts breaking down starch into....glucose molecules).

Eating certains types of food will burn down the fat in your body. So I can eat the quantity I want!

No it doesn't! Calorie deficit and Workout does!

Artificial sweeteners are much better for you because they have zero calories.

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I second the eating at night thing.

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You should never eat foods made with Splenda (or practically anything other than lettuce...) because you'll get cancer.

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B12 coming from purely plant sources

"don't eat grains because "caveman" didn't eat them".... yeah so early neolithic man suddenly started cultivating food that no-one had ever eaten before.....? or maybe neolithic man *invented* grains...? :huh: (palaeolithic people would have eaten wild grains in their range in season; there are issues with eating grains in such huge quantities as modern people do and modern cultivars being more allergenic than wild varieties, but "cavepeople" would have eaten wild grains when they could get them!)

"glucose is toxic" ummm yeah. *cough* my cells run on toxic.

"(add anything here) melts fat" - call me cynical, but I really don't want anything that actually melts fat anywhere near my body at all.

"(add anything here) flushes the fat out of your body" - what like you flush a toilet and the poo gets washed away... I don't think anyone's ever attempted to visualise just how this would pan out with human fat

"(add anything here) makes you poo out fat" and it's cousin: "cleanse your colon to get rid of fat" - fat is not stored in the colon.

"(add anything here) makes you sweat out fat" - If I started sweating fat, I'd be terrified, dial 999 and ask for an ambulance

"fruit is bad for you" - we're primates FFS. Are you going to call all the zoos and warn them that fruit is dangerous for all the other primates?

"cooking makes food toxic" - quick! we'd better jump into a time machine and warn all the Homo erectuses, Homo heidelbergensises, Homo neanderthalensises and middle palaeolithic Homo sapiens, because they all cooked food too!! If cooking made food toxic, Homo erectus would have died and the other humans listed wouldn't have even evolved. And also note that the use of fire by humans lead to human brains evolving to be bigger, because cooked food is easier to digest, so that would have meant more energy being available to grow larger brains. Early Homo erectus lived off a 100% raw food diet.... and had only about two thirds of the cranial capacity of a Homo sapiens or Homo neanderthalensis.

"gorillas get enough protein from eating only vegetable foods" - a) gorillas have the smallest brain size compared to body size of all the great apes and b) gorillas eat insects, which is animal protein. There are no vegetarian great apes, they're all omnivores. If our ancestors hadn't eaten animal products, we wouldn't be here having this conversation, we'd be living in trees eating fruit and leaves all day long in order to get enough energy to feed our very tiny brains. I have nothing against the vegan diet.... just don't try to claim that's what we evolved for!!!

"you should put grass in smoothies because that's how cows get calcium" - :noway: i'm not even going to comment on that

"(add thing here) cleanses your liver" - what, it puts it in a bowl of water, rinses it out and hangs it up to dry? And if the liver can't cleanse itself, then how did all the Homo erectuses survive? And all the other animals with livers for that matter....

"(add thing here) jump starts the metabolism" - what, my metabolic battery is flat and my body isn't currently functioning at all (i.e. dead), so this thing takes jump leads to it, charges up my battery and gets my engine running again (basically bringing me back to life). Hmm that's novel. Do hospitals have this in accident and emergency departments now?

Those are a few that I can recall off the top of my head... if I remember any more I'll add them...

Artificial sweeteners are much better for you because they have zero calories.
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Compared to sugar, they absolutely are better. Glucose+fructose in a hypercaloric state is linked to metabolic syndrome in the literature. I have yet to see a single peer-reviewed study that indicates deleterious effects of aspartame or sucralose at GRAS dosages.

I agree, and though not totally sold on fake sugar, I will always choose xylitol, stevia, or even splenda over real sugar. Just looking at how it's digested and what it does to your insulin (and therefore fat storage) is enough to make me avoid almost all sugars, except for the occasional small amounts of local honey. Plus, my mom was pre-diabetic eating a diet high in fruit (ie sugar) and complex carbohydrates, with almost no fat and very little (lean only) protein. No thanks. That and high chol genetics make me avoid sugar.
There are no substantial, real studies showing that fake sugars in small amounts harm PEOPLE.

That you burn more calories warming ice cream up to body temperature than are in it! God I wish it was true. Negative calorie Ice Cream.