My gf this morning, after she tried scrambled eggs and cheese for the first time, told me that she needs to not scramble them in olive oil next time, because frying it up “adds carbs”. I said babe there are ZERO carbs in what you just ate, and she wouldn’t believe me until she looked it up, all because it was ‘fried’.
The most baffling misinformation about nutrition I’ve heard is all of them. My personal conclusion after a lifetime of study is that humans are true omnivores; we can survive and thrive on many many types of diets. But there is no ‘perfect’ diet. Every diet has trade offs.
The level of elitism around food and nutrition especially in light of soaring food prices is incredibly annoying. It’s insulting. And some of this bullshit thinking/myths is perpetuated by privileged people in healthcare.
You have to shop at high end grocery / health food store for nutritious food.
Conventionally grown food is less nutritious.
There’s little to no nutrition in canned and frozen food.
Fried food, burgers, typical American food at a sit down or fast casual restaurant are perceived as healthier than that served at a fast food
All carbs are bad
There’s no room for dessert
Supplements are equal to / more superior than food.
food from a box is poison
I could go on.
She probably was thinking of food that’s breaded and then fried. She probably read somewhere that fried chicken has carbs while grilled chicken does not. Typically things are breaded and fried but we just shorten it to “fried”. I can see why she came to that conclusion.
Someone recently posted in facebook that “salt is an addiction”, and “completely unnecessary.”….. 🤕 my husband was in a tizzy for hours lol. It was hard, but we did not engage in the nonsensical argument that ensued in the comment section.
For quite a while my mother thought that chicken Kiev is health food, because it’s chicken. For those not familiar, chicken Kiev is a chicken breast stuffed with garlic butter, then breaded and deep fried. Delicious, but not health food.
The massive milk advertising campaign of the 90s, using a bunch of celebrities and funded by a party benefiting from milk/dairy consumption. Many adults really think they need to consume milk. Also, the whole deceptive fat = bad campaign, while the food conglomerates drown food in sugars, which have been the # 1 enemy of health for decades and the root cause of many diseases including inflammatory ones.
These wonderful vegan versions of dishes, like chicken snitchzel but eggplant instead, yet there’s no protein substitute. You can’t just remove a meat and replace it with a proteinless substitute… it’s now macronutriently unbalanced so won’t keep me full.
My Dr. Told me I’m too fat. Which… Ok. But he said to get skinny I need to not drink water in the morning because it dilutes the acid in my belly making me slow down digestion and something something you’re fat.
Sounds like something my wife would say haha.
I guess maybe haven’t heard in a while but just the general assumption that if you’re eating a salad, or vegan, it must be healthy. Well, yes, it very well could be true, but people think it’s an always true. Which it certainly isn’t.
I had a friend that said you could only absorb 30g of protein in one meal and you will poop/pee out the rest.
That’s why they always order the biggest lean steak when going to a restaurant because a lean steak is mostly protein so a 6oz lean steak will have roughly the same calories as a 32oz lean steak.
I told them that’s not how it works but they still insist they’re right.
I was talking to someone about food stamps once because it was a local news topic at the time. I don’t even remember how we got to it, but I said something like “we could increase food stamps and take meat off it” and he said people cannot survive without meat. As much as I tried to get him to clarify otherwise, he was adamant we needed it to live. My sister had been a vegetarian for like 15 years at that point lmao
People seem to think plain croissants are fine, because they’re not fried and low sodium (I guess). Not enough people think about food in terms of nutrient density, fiber, insulin and blood sugar. Or metabolic syndrome more broadly.
Saturated fat intake is not associated with increased CVD risk.
Vegetable/seed oils are bad because they contain too much omega 6. Also something something hexane, something something oxidation.
Eating cow almost exclusively is exactly like eating how caveman ate, they didn’t have any cancer or CVD back then either.
Sticking 2lb of cheese on top of vegetables is still healthy because they are vegetables.
McDonald’s is healthy as long as you get the burgers with lettuce and tomato.