20 Food Myths People Continue to Eat Up
A collection of "facts" and common beliefs around food and dieting that aren't as factual as we once thought.
Published 3 years ago in Facepalm
A collection of "facts" and common beliefs around food and dieting that aren't as factual as we once thought. As a matter of fact (yes, that word again), the more progress scientist are making the more we realize we were wrong all along. Just like parenting when you think of it.
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Dietitian here. That sugar feeds cancer cells. Sugar (carbohydrates) feed ALL your cells. In fact, it's the main source of energy for your entire body. Avoiding entire food groups is going to do nothing but make you malnourished when you already have a disease that increases your body's energy needs which is going to result in worse outcomes. For the love of God, please just eat! Anything and everything that sounds good.
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I have an advanced diploma in nutrition, it’s not a degree but still. The entire health and fitness industry is based around some guy going “this worked for me so it’s the only way to do it” the fact is if you want to lose weight etc how you do it doesn’t matter in the slightest, it’s as simple as calories in vs calories spent.
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* No, that gum you swallowed as a kid is not still there. indigestible materials pass through your gut just as fast as anything else. it won't just magically hover there in your intestine as food forces it's way past. * colon cleansing is a complete scam. the colon is a self-cleaning organ. * Anything that has to do with blood pH is a scam. your body goes through great pains to keep that number exactly where it needs to be, since you'll die if it gets even *one degree* off.
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Starvation diets do not work in the long term. Yes, you will lose weight in the short-term but once you stop your starvation diet, you gain the weight back plus more. This is known as ''yo-yo' dieting. The word 'diet' does not mean eating to lose weight, rather it means what you eat as a habit. For example, the SAD (Standard American Diet) is a diet which one wants to avoid.
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NO DIET can cure illnesses based on genetic defects - because no diet can repair genes the medical diets do remove some serious symptoms, but the error and the damage is still there, it just does not go much worse..... do not fall for the frauds with - miracle diet that cured influencer XY of their terrible disease - there is a whole snake oil branch of business with these diets....they do not work! yes, this is true even for such a - stupid - illness like acne.....acne means your broken genes tell your skin to go crazy with oil production, and no diet can fix this skin-maddness! having acne due to food allergy or at least histamine intolerance is pretty rare!
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