whats the worst "food myth" you have heard?

if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

All in all it's just another brick in the wall.

vegetarian/vegan food is healthier than animal products

if you eat healthy food, you can have as much as you want of it

whey powder is unnatural and makes you "bulky"

Eating healthy makes you healthy. What a load of poop!

Hmm...This isn't a "diet" myth necessarily, but my aunt believes that the only healthy people in the world (aside from her, and she is quite overweight for her size) are skinny people....oh, and i hate when people hate on carbs/sugar/salt....and when my brother says things like "you should start eating paleo, I lost 8 pounds in a month eating a pound of bacon every day"--I think my arteries clog just from hearing him speak....

Oh, you reminded me of a good one - the myth that dietary fat clogs your arteries.

It's healthy to eat sugary foods in the morning, like donuts, because your body needs to replenish sugar after sleeping.

I don't think this is necessarily a common myth, but a girl at work said she couldn't eat olives because they had 50 calories a piece.

"fruits are bad because they are full of sugar"

Are you sure that wasn't just a homophobic rant?

Being told growing up that I needed to sit up straight and use my knife and fork properly so when the queen cam to dinner, I wouldn't embarrass the family... b!tch never came :sad:

I'd been told this one too.....let's just say, I'm still waiting for her!!!

"fruits are bad because they are full of sugar"

Oh my days this! I've been hearing it so much recently and it winds me up so much!

The carbs you eat after going to the gym don't count....Huh?!

if you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

Yep Yep!!
Gotta quote the Floyd!!

My trainer says this all the time. He also told me I'm fat because I eat carbs and will continue to be fat until I stop eating them. Apparently doing cardio 3-4 times a week, strength training 3 times a week and staying at or under my caloric needs doesn't mean anything and nothing will change until I cut out carbs. Carbs. The source of all evil. The reason I'm fat....apparently.

I don't talk to him about nutrition anymore.

Cheese and rice, I wouldn't talk to him about nutrition OR give him any more money as my personal trainer. Find another one who isn't such an *kitten*, geez!

My personal trainer asked me if I was eating "good calories" or "bad calories" ...

umm they were good.. quite tasty thanks!:laugh:

"It's SO freaking easy to lose weight - just stop eating! if I wanted to, I could lose all the weight you need to lose in a month or two, tops! THREE months and I'd be in BADASS shape!" ---yes, that's actually verbatim, lmao

"Diet soda tastes just like the regular kind!"

"you're going to get cancer from eating steak and it will stay in your intestines for almost 20 years."

"Drinking Muscle Milk for your breakfast every day will make you fat AND bulky like a guy."

lmao... I giggled just typing these out!

LOL!!!!
I guess those people talking about the Muscle Milk, actually think the "milk" makes your muscles bigger!!! They must not know that it actually doesn't even contain milk! Muscle Milk is lactose free!! LOL
Diet soda is just NASTY!!! What exactly IS the point of Diet soda anyways? So those people can eat a Big Mac, a Large Fry, and have a Diet Soda to make them feel better? LOL

HAHA!! THANK YOU! Just so you know, I am friending you because you're awesome. Yeah some dudes were telling me that about my MuscleMilk RTD - they said all the protein and calories and all that would bulk up my muscles and I'd gain weight from the carbs! Never mind that we worked a job that required 12+ hours of running around a resort with no breaks (yeah i know, illegal!) and then I'g go to the gym after all that. Ugh and don't start me on diet soda - nastiness!! And no, the 'diet' doesn't count when you sit there and drink 3 liters!!

You can thank my mother for these gems:
If it's fat free or low fat you can eat all you want
Since a potato is a vegetable it's perfectly okay to have it be the only vegetable in your diet
Avocados & nuts are fattening and should be avoided at all costs
Veggie omelets aren't good because of the cholesterol (mind you she had ordered a double-decker club sandwich with onion rings and a coke when she said that to me :grumble: )