whats the worst "food myth" you have heard?
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coffee counts as water0
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Atkins in general.0
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Coffee does count as water, so do soda and tea.0
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That diet sodas are actually good for you0
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if you want to lose weight you shouldn't eat after 6 pm ??!!? I usually get from work about this time so by the time I eat it's like 7, 7:30 pm, ohh well that probably why I'm fat :laugh:0
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In school we had the 5 second rule... this meant that if you dropped your sammich on the floor but picked it up inside a 5 second window then all would be fine. I had mental images of the germs taking their sweet time to get to my lunch :laugh:0
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Drink great fruit in the morning will make you burn fat all day lond. Bullsh*t. :noway:
Um, grapefruit?
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Some of these are real gems!! My grandmother always said standing up while eating makes your legs fat and my husband is convinced that adding water to orange juice has the same flushing, hydrating effect as just drinking just water . . .0
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That "organic" food "doesn't have chemicals".
Whenever I hear some version of this, I totally facepalm. I mean, water is more or less a chemical.0 -
It's already been mentioned, but the one that bothers me the most is the "don't eat after __pm!" As if our body cares what time of day it is and changes the way it reacts to food. Bullsh!t :laugh:0
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You shouldn't eat carrots because they are nothing but carbs.....thanks, Mom!0
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I had a cousin that use to sware that fruit2o water made her gain weight.
and I use to go to church with a girl that said she could lose waight by eating dark choc. every night befor going to bed.
both of these ladies are still over weight0 -
That fruit is bad because it has sugar0
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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.
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)
Of course you can feel high blood pressure. Unless my tinnitus, pounding heart and palpitations are imaginary? :huh:
Oh and I'm an overweight vegetarian. I've been vege since the age of 10, put on weight from the age of 18 - too much alcohol, fast food and general being young stupid, eating too much and thinking I was invincible. So yeah, you can be an overweight vegetarian0 -
I need a "like" button on this thread!!!0
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Some of these are real gems!! My grandmother always said standing up while eating makes your legs fat and my husband is convinced that adding water to orange juice has the same flushing, hydrating effect as just drinking just water . . .
If all you ever drank was orange juice, from a hydration perspective, your body would never know the difference.
Definite differences from a calorie perspective...but most any liquid will keep you hydrated successfully.0 -
"Soda and coffee count towards your daily water" Unfortunately, there are a lot of people on MFP that still believe this too! :noway:0
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Eat breakfast to stoke the metabolic fire!
Total BS!
There is real science behind this "BS" that demonstrates why you need to "[e]at breakfast to stoke the metabolic fire". Your metabolic process is centered around the regulation of glucose in your blood stream, the fuel your body uses, and during the night your metabolism changes as your blood sugar declines. In the morning your blood sugar is at a "low" level, relative to the "normal" level for your body ("[a]verage blood sugar levels are 100 mg/dl (70-120 mg/dl) or 5 mmol/L") and as such eating breakfast increases the level of glucose in your system and the level your metabolism is working at.
That said, you cannot use it as a blanket statement and say that ANY food will jump-start your metabolism in a healthy way, and in fact the whole subject of breakfast and metabolism is far more complex than what is presented here.
A side note to this and every one of the other "myths" presented in this thread is that they are consistently being misinterpreted by many different people in a variety of different ways with limited understanding of what they mean and context presented.
If there is any hope of this discussion being more than a running gag, the topics need to be well defined and the person presenting them must be clear and concise on the point, angle, and context they are arguing --and blanket statements should be avoided at all costs.
:explode:
References:
NSCA’s Performance Training Journal | www.nsca-lift.org/perform Vol. 4 No. 6 | Page 11
http://www.fodsupport.org/blood-sugar-monitoring.htm
Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/insulin-and-weight-gain/DA00139/NSECTIONGROUP=2
http://www.emaxhealth.com/43/2407.html0 -
"Soda and coffee count towards your daily water" Unfortunately, there are a lot of people on MFP that still believe this too! :noway:
you know that, in the hospital, when tracking fluid intake that soup and even jello count, right? same deal here. I don't count soda, but coffee or tea? why the hell not? it's water with flavoring, essentially.0 -
Eat breakfast to stoke the metabolic fire!
Total BS!
There is real science behind this "BS" that demonstrates why you need to "[e]at breakfast to stoke the metabolic fire". Your metabolic process is centered around the regulation of glucose in your blood stream, the fuel your body uses, and during the night your metabolism changes as your blood sugar declines. In the morning your blood sugar is at a "low" level, relative to the "normal" level for your body ("[a]verage blood sugar levels are 100 mg/dl (70-120 mg/dl) or 5 mmol/L") and as such eating breakfast increases the level of glucose in your system and the level your metabolism is working at.
That said, you cannot use it as a blanket statement and say that ANY food will jump-start your metabolism in a healthy way, and in fact the whole subject of breakfast and metabolism is far more complex than what is presented here.
A side note to this and every one of the other "myths" presented in this thread is that they are consistently being misinterpreted by many different people in a variety of different ways with limited understanding of what they mean and context presented.
If there is any hope of this discussion being more than a running gag, the topics need to be well defined and the person presenting them must be clear and concise on the point, angle, and context they are arguing --and blanket statements should be avoided at all costs.
:explode:
References:
NSCA’s Performance Training Journal | www.nsca-lift.org/perform Vol. 4 No. 6 | Page 11
http://www.fodsupport.org/blood-sugar-monitoring.htm
Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/insulin-and-weight-gain/DA00139/NSECTIONGROUP=2
http://www.emaxhealth.com/43/2407.html
Really?
Hmm...The scientific community has a consensus that not eating sends your body into starvation mode. Starvation mode leads to conservation, not burning of caloric fuel. You must keep your metabolism running to burn fat efficiently. If you get hungry for two hours during the day before lunch, drink water and/or a light snack to pacify yourself. It's ok to fill hungry for a little while, your body will adjust after a few days...it won't last forever.
The notion that not eating has no effect on metabolism and therefore weight loss is simply laughable!
Here, since you asked...I'll give you some things to look up for light reading.In one study, researchers found that the when they made people fast for 3 days, their metabolic rate did not change. This is 72 hours without food. So much for needing to eat every three hours!
Webber J, Macdonald IA, The cardiovascular, metabolic and hormonal changes accompanying acute starvation in men and women. British journal of nutrition 1994; 71:437-447.In another study by a different group of researchers, people who fasted every other day for a period of 22 days also had no decrease in their resting metabolic rate.
Heilbronn LK, et al. Alternate-day fasting in nonobese subjects: effects on body weight, body composition, and energy metabolism. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2005; 81:69-73In still more studies, there was no change in the metabolic rate of people who skipped breakfast, or people who ate 2 meals a day compared to 7 meals per day
Verboeket-Van De Venne WPHG, et al. Effect of the pattern of food intake on human energy metabolism. British Journal of Nutrition 1993; 70:103-115
Bellisle F, et al. Meal Frequency and energy balance. British Journal of Nutrition 1997;, 77: (Suppl. 1) s57-s70
And the conclusion you must draw from such overwhelming evidence?The bottom line is food has virtually nothing to do with your metabolism. In fact, your metabolism is much more closely tied to your bodyweight. If your weight goes up or down, so does your metabolism. The only other thing that can affect your metabolism (in both the short term and longer term) is exercise and weight loss. Even in the complete absence of food for three days, your metabolism remains unchanged.
And so...since food has virtually NO impact on your metabolic rate...how exactly is it that eating breakfast 'jump starts your metabolism'?
If you want to jump start your metabolism of a morning, do 20 or so jumping jacks.
I'm so glad I copied that post to a word file. It gets REAL old retyping it every damn time someone pops up and says you have to eat breakfast to keep your 'metabolism fired up'...or to 'jump start your metabolism'.
Ctrl+v for the win.0
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