whats the worst "food myth" you have heard?

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....

See, I am not all together certain eating bacon makes your arteries clog. I think that one is a big myth too.

Broken biscuits don't count, because they aren't whole biscuits.
Biscuits that you eat in the dark don't count, because you can't see them.
Really thin biscuits don't count if you eat them side-on, I guess because they are really thin and therefore you kind-of can't see them either...

Anyone seeing a recurring theme here?!

I also read on here somewhere the other day - if you eat too much fat your liver turns it into insulin so that will make your insulin resistance worse.

Also I feel a need to comment on some other things I've seen, though I haven't read the whole way through this thread.
Fruits are full of sugar which is bad, IF you eat a lot of them IF you are, for example, diabetic. High blood sugar is not conducive to weight loss.
Dietary fat clogs your arteries. Someone said this is one of those myths. If not from your diet, where do you think that circulating fat comes from? Why do you think things like the Atkins diet that encourage people to eat more fat result in statistically higher rates of heart disease and atherosclerosis? It is absorbed from your gut, metabolised by your liver and packaged into lipoproteins to be transported around your body for storage. Too many lipoproteins of a certain kind get eaten up by other cells and sit in the walls of your blood vessels. Ergo, fat clogging arteries.

FALSE as far as the fat clogging artery portion...OMG people have no clue when it comes to cholesterol
I am going to stop reading this post now, reading some of this non-sense is raising my Blood pressure (False, you can't actually feel blood pressure, hence hypertension is known as the "silent killer" in the medical world)

I would love you to explain to me how you think the fat gets there.

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?

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?

^^ awesome

That diet and lite and low fat "foods" are actually good for you. No. A sugar free/low carb/low fat/diet chocolate bar is still unhealthy.

Oh and "fattening foods". Apparently nuts and cheese have calories which are "fattening" but things like pasta and bread don't. hmm

I hate when people claim drinking water makes them too bloated, water actually helps that sorta thing.

Crust makes your hair curly! :noway:

"fruits are bad because they are full of sugar"

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

"fruits are bad because they are full of sugar"

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.