Strangest thing someone has said to you about health/diet??
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My mom was giving my 3-year old niece sweet mini-muffins as an afternoon snack. I asked her if she thought that was a good snack for her, and she replied, "Oh it's OK, they're gluten-free!" Smh!! And no, my niece has absolutely no problem with gluten. Afternoon sugar rush in a small child...maybe there's a problem.
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And of course…"But you have to eat breakfast!! You need to kickstart your metabolism or you'll crash during the day!"
Yeah, no, I haven't had breakfast in several years. Doing just fine, thank you!4 -
A young woman acquaintance years ago said her mother avoided black pepper because it can "freeze your liver".5
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someone in my office shared the following exciting diet yesterday in the hopes that I would join in
Overview of Allowed Foods
Day One: Eat only low-sugar fruit today. No bananas! Choose apples, pomegranates, and any citrus you like. Drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Two: Vegetables only. Start the day with a boiled potato. Eat the salads of your choice, plus drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Three: You're allowed both fruit and vegetables today. No potatoes or bananas. Drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Four: Eat eight whole bananas today. Make and eat today's basic vegetable soup recipe. Drink three glasses of milk. Also, drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Five: Eat six small tomatoes today plus a serving of plain, boiled rice. You can also have more vegetable soup, apples, oranges, and grapefruit. Drink at least 10 glasses of water
Day Six: Eat a small serving of rice. You can have vegetable soup three times. Drink at least 10 glasses of water.
Day Seven: Eat a small serving of rice. You can have vegetable soup and vegetable salad today. Drink at least 10 glasses of water, plus fruit juice if desired.
Bizarre!!!
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I had a friend tell me the reason should could not lower her weight is because she was not eating according to her blood type. According to her, there are special diets based on blood type.
She's probably talking about this book... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-Right-4-Your-Type-ebook/dp/B0089WCD1U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518162154&sr=8-2&keywords=blood+type+diet
It's utter rubbish, but there are diets out there that allegedly work for your blood type...!! I looked at it once and immediately put it back on the shelf, according to the book I shouldn't eat cheese. Hahahaha, not eat cheese? Me? Hahahahah!!! I'd rather be fat thanks!
I've got one that takes this a step further. Your blood type also determines your personality. So if you are type A, it means you should eat certain food and are aggressive at work.
I shook my head so hard my eyeballs came out. I don't discuss diet choices with this woman. But she's also carefully explained how tattoos are poisoning people as well.0 -
AudreyJDuke wrote: »"If you eat after 6:00 at night you will gain weight."
take that one a step further - co-worker who insists that calories eaten after 6pm count double!4 -
Weight Watchers plan that allows a free-for-all on a lot of different foods that have no points(?!). I've never done WW, but read about this on the mfp forums. Sounds pretty wackadoo to me!!1
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My MIL is a liar anyway but one time we were talking about weight and she said she weighed 130 lbs (I know she weighs much less) and I commented I wish I weighed 130 lbs. She said oh if you eat enough you can gain weight and get to that amount.
um yeah. She knows I'm overweight and been trying to lose weight for quite some time. 2 -
A friend is doing the keto diet while also keeping track of calories, and we got to talking about our respective weight loss efforts. She commented that she's made so much progress and she hasn't been able to lose weight before, and I made a comment to the effect of how she's now monitoring her calorie intake and she's lost weight because of the calorie deficit, and it's easier to lose weight once you realize that you just need to eat fewer calories than you burn.... and then she throws in "but also because of the lack of carbs".
One of my relatives is perpetually on a diet and tends to order things without sauce or with sauce on the side if it's a creamy or cheesy dish, because that's "fattening". I get it, creamy and cheesy sauces are typically high calorie; however, she will slather butter all over her bread, eat several desserts in a day, and have 5-6 drinks in a day, because she thinks they are fine and it's only the cheesy and creamy (and only cream in savory, not sweet) things that make her gain weight.2 -
Oh my gosh, I thought of another one. Someone who was frustrated with their weight gain told me that they can just look at food and gain weight. Um, no, you're eating it, and you're eating too much of it! Just like I did over the past six months!1
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Eat as much fruit. It doesnot makes you fat.
But the most important one on which i have not researched is. All the elders around me say some people have soft fat and they lose it quickly but gain it quickly aswell. Some people have hard fat they lose it slowly and gain slowly aswell. This doesnot makes sense to me.
There is some truth to this, but I cant remember where I heard this topic discussed about different types of fat.0 -
someone in my office shared the following exciting diet yesterday in the hopes that I would join in
Overview of Allowed Foods
Day One: Eat only low-sugar fruit today. No bananas! Choose apples, pomegranates, and any citrus you like. Drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Two: Vegetables only. Start the day with a boiled potato. Eat the salads of your choice, plus drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Three: You're allowed both fruit and vegetables today. No potatoes or bananas. Drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Four: Eat eight whole bananas today. Make and eat today's basic vegetable soup recipe. Drink three glasses of milk. Also, drink 12 glasses of water.
Day Five: Eat six small tomatoes today plus a serving of plain, boiled rice. You can also have more vegetable soup, apples, oranges, and grapefruit. Drink at least 10 glasses of water
Day Six: Eat a small serving of rice. You can have vegetable soup three times. Drink at least 10 glasses of water.
Day Seven: Eat a small serving of rice. You can have vegetable soup and vegetable salad today. Drink at least 10 glasses of water, plus fruit juice if desired.
Bizarre!!!
Sooooo bizarre!!
I feel like most office jobs I worked in during my 20s, half the women there were doing this stuff every couple of weeks. They were mostly older than me (at the time) ladies in their 40s-50s and they gained and lost the same 10 lb for years, through this great and complicated effort LMAO
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That Man was never meant to consume wheat and other grains. It's why people have so many health problems now. Also, legumes contain toxins that our bodies can't flush out and should be avoided.... um, yeah okay...4
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Someone recently said to me to not get my hopes up for losing weight, as some people just are destined to be bigger and there is nothing you can do about that
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Another one: That the GAPS diet cures "leaky gut" syndrome, which is the leading cause of ADHD, Autism, and many other health problems in children (along with vaccines, of course).0
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someone told me she was going on "The" gluten free diet... to loose weight (??!?). I asked if she was gluten intollerant, and she wasn't.2
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One more...when I lived back in the UK our local barman was a little on the heavy side. He announced to the pub that he would be losing weight. For the next few weeks he was eating and drinking way more than usual. He told someone that he had learned that it is easier to lose weight if you initially gained weight. That gained weight comes off fast and you keep the momentum going to lose more, like taking a running start.... Needless to say it didn't work. He gained 10+ pounds and never lost it. He never was the smartest cookie in the jar.4
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Tacklewasher wrote: »I had a friend tell me the reason should could not lower her weight is because she was not eating according to her blood type. According to her, there are special diets based on blood type.
She's probably talking about this book... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eat-Right-4-Your-Type-ebook/dp/B0089WCD1U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1518162154&sr=8-2&keywords=blood+type+diet
It's utter rubbish, but there are diets out there that allegedly work for your blood type...!! I looked at it once and immediately put it back on the shelf, according to the book I shouldn't eat cheese. Hahahaha, not eat cheese? Me? Hahahahah!!! I'd rather be fat thanks!
I've got one that takes this a step further. Your blood type also determines your personality. So if you are type A, it means you should eat certain food and are aggressive at work.
I shook my head so hard my eyeballs came out. I don't discuss diet choices with this woman. But she's also carefully explained how tattoos are poisoning people as well.
That is a very common belief in eastern Asian countries. Blood type is thought of along the same lines as astrological signs. You'll see stats for celebrities, athletes, and video game characters listing blood type, and even things like daily blood type horoscopes and dating sites that match by blood type.
One of the strangest I've heard is that exercise is bad for you because the heart has a set, fixed number of beats over your entire lifespan, and anything that increases your heart rate causes you to use up those beats faster and shortens your life. Not only is that not true, if you do the math then the lower resting heart rate from exercise more than makes up for the elevated rate during exercise.6 -
That dairy is the devil. Never understood that one.
You will never loose weight by missing breakfast. Well I'm loosing pretty good so far without breakfast.
Oh bread is another evil apparently!0 -
My husband keeps on getting frustrated with me trying to track my food intake. He always tells me “you can eat whatever you want if you just go to the gym five days a week” and then he wonders why I don’t put as much on my plate as he does.
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One of my workmates swore off of bread because 'carbs make you fat'. She said all of this while eating a big bowl of oats.1
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strongwouldbenice wrote: »One of my workmates swore off of bread because 'carbs make you fat'. She said all of this while eating a big bowl of oats.
Knew a chick who couldn't lose weight on low carb. Found her eating a bag of jelly beans. She didn't think sugar was a carb, cause carbs are white and jelly beans are different colours.17 -
Long before I discovered MFP and CICO, someone told me in order to lose weight I had to drink warm lemon water every morning. This was supposed to 'kick-start my metabolism'. Yeah right! all it did was make my teeth hurt.2
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CattOfTheGarage wrote: »She explained that fat when it gets hot it melts and so therefore surely the cholesterol in her blood should melt and..., I really don't know, vanish?!
That actually strikes me as a really interesting technical question. She's right, you know, blood heat is warm enough that most fats are liquid at that temperature, so I'd expect them to stay liquid and keep flowing round the system (or be stored in cells), not build up in deposits.
If you pour fat down the sink (DON'T DO THIS, PEOPLE) it clogs the pipes because it cools down. So why does cholesterol build up? I assume it's stickier than other fat, or has a higher melting point, or something?
@CattOfTheGarage
The cholesterol in the blood is actually a lipoprotein (mix of lipids and proteins) and not purely a lipid. It needs to be in this form since lipids (fats, cholesterol, etc.) are insoluble in water (and blood is an aqueous solution, meaning for all intent and purpose, it is like water to lipids). Same with the fat that we store in our cells. For it (or any lipid really) to be transportable in the blood stream, it needs to be packed into a lipoprotein (i.e. different chemical form that doesn't 'melt' quite like a fat would), for example the HDL, LDL and such that you might see on the print outs for a blood test.
As for the mechanisms of why exactly it builds up.... you'd need to ask someone a lot better versed than I am to explain that (and I'm too lazy to get back to my notes on atherosclerosis to type up something even marginally coherent).
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Shanel0916 wrote: »Eat as much fruit. It doesnot makes you fat.
But the most important one on which i have not researched is. All the elders around me say some people have soft fat and they lose it quickly but gain it quickly aswell. Some people have hard fat they lose it slowly and gain slowly aswell. This doesnot makes sense to me.
There is some truth to this, but I cant remember where I heard this topic discussed about different types of fat.
We have brown fat and white fat; brown fat is burned to generate heat. Babies are born with a lot of brown fat and we lose it as we get older and then we end up with the make-you-fat white fat.1 -
You can build "bulky" or "lean" muscle. Lean muscle is longer, while the bulky is shorter.3
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That I can eat whatever I want because I walk so much. Because apparently burning maybe 600 extra calories a day magically makes up for the fries, ice cream, and pastries that I want to eat.
Also a friend got told by her daughter's pediatrician that a gluten free diet will help with her attention issues. I'm quite sure that it's not how it works, and she's constantly broke and paying extra for gluten free stuff (half the time).2 -
stevencloser wrote: »You can build "bulky" or "lean" muscle. Lean muscle is longer, while the bulky is shorter.
I've heard this one- yoga and Pilates build lean muscle, weught training builds bulky muscle. Don't lift heavy if you don't want bulky muscle.1 -
In the early 90s at the height of the no fat craze coworker told me it was okay to eat a whole loaf of bread (one of those mini bread bowls ) as long as I didn't put butter on it and I won't gain weight
Fitness wise, my mother told me 20 years ago with my first pregnancy that I should not exercise, I'm depriving the baby of oxygen. Wtf? Yeah, I gained 57 lbs because my dumb *kitten* thought it made sense.0 -
"Two slices of pizza are the same as eating two spoonfuls of warm oil." WHAT?!?!?!?1
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