Your fave stupid food myth you've heard

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  • RaggedyPond
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    Eating for two while pregnant.
  • TattooedNici
    TattooedNici Posts: 2,141 Member
    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
    misschoppo Posts: 463 Member
    1. fruit is bad and too high in sugar.

    2. fat is the devil and should be avoided in all forms
  • ClaudiaTheNice
    ClaudiaTheNice Posts: 74
    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
    RaggedyPond Posts: 1,487 Member
    Kidney bean carb blocker
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    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
    levitateme Posts: 999 Member
    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
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    Broad beans are a food!!!!!!
  • HunterKiller_deleted
    HunterKiller_deleted Posts: 458
    It always tastes of what you eat but ive never been told that it tastes of chocolate.
  • leanne9876
    leanne9876 Posts: 301 Member

    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
    seleniumbaby Posts: 18
    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
    RllyGudTweetr Posts: 2,019 Member

    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
    Lavenda93 Posts: 23 Member
    Drinking lots of water makes you fat.
  • tyediri
    tyediri Posts: 183 Member
    '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
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    Anything to do with meal timing.
  • Wilhellmina
    Wilhellmina Posts: 757 Member
    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
    DuckDynastyMakesMeLaugh Posts: 363 Member

    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
    JUDDDing Posts: 1,367 Member
    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
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,974 Member
    Someone once gave advice about eating protein with carbs because the protein will cancel out insulin response.:huh:

    A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
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    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
  • Michelle9055
    Michelle9055 Posts: 24 Member
    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
    BillnRVA Posts: 6 Member
    You are what you eat... what?
  • abbyoncloud9
    abbyoncloud9 Posts: 48 Member
    You need dairy in order to get enough calcium.
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  • lacewitch
    lacewitch Posts: 766 Member
    I'm alergic to salt....
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    That Santa Claus drinks Coca Cola....
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
    You need grain in your diet!
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    We shouldn't eat potatoes because they are part of the nightshade family.
  • Arranna1212
    Arranna1212 Posts: 143 Member
    Not really a food myth but..
    You can't have a cookie because you're on a "diet".
  • TripZeros
    TripZeros Posts: 144 Member
    "You can't overeat if it's healthy food."

    or
    "If you eat while standing up, you burn all the calories."
  • F00LofaT00K
    F00LofaT00K Posts: 688 Member
    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.

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