Drop some common dietary myths/misconceptions below!

#1
  • That nuts are a good source of protein. Nuts are mostly fat.
  • That beans are a good source of protein. Beans are mostly carbs.
  • That peanuts are a nut. Peanuts are a legume.
#2
  • Botanically, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries aren’t berries. But tomatoes, watermelon, bananas, grapes, cranberries, kiwis, cucumbers, pumpkins, peppers, and eggplant are.
  • Blueberries are not a low carb fruit. Grapes and bananas are the only two common fruits higher in net carbs.
  • Artificial crab is not keto friendly.
(Jack Bennett) #3

  • dietary fiber is necessary

  • vegetables are unquestionably good for you

  • grains are “heart healthy”

(Jill F.) #4

People who fill their shopping carts with toxic sugary foods, desserts, and sweets tell me that keto is gonna kill me!

(Jane) #5

:laughing:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #6

  • Healthy carbs are a real thing :joy:

  • A calorie is a calorie :roll_eyes:

  • Eggs are bad for you :thinking:

  • Eggs are good for you :thinking:

  • Uncured Bacon is healthier than Cured Bacon :crazy_face:

  • Red meat gives you colon cancer :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Too many to list really! :cowboy_hat_face:

(Scott) #7

Heart healthy vegetable oil.

I have to hear that one daily on a commercial sponsored by the oil manufacturers. “Instead of using butter I am going to use some heart healthy vegetable oil”

(Davy) #8

To check accurate Magnesium amount in your body, do a blood serum test.

#9

@KHAN commented on another thread with this video, and I don’t think I’ll ever forget it:


this along with corn, soy and canola oil ads, and I think I’ve got my daily dose of nonsense
(Karen) #10

Eat oats and oatmeal to lower your LDL and reduce your risk of heart disease.

#11

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

Eat every couple of hours to keep you metabolism high

(Karen) #12

UGG I did this about 15 years ago. I ate every two hours… 100 cal every two hours. I thought at the time was to keep your Metabolism running high. I feel so stupid now. It didn’t work, and I encouraged people to try it

#13

*You must have some kind of iced or fridge-cold drink with meals, or else you’re missing a sensational sensation - as if diluting your digestive & saliva enzymes is in any way good (and in any way help to the SAD world) and as if our ancestors aspired to eat ice and snow whilst enjoying their warm raw meat/organs or bone broths or seaweed soups, etc.

*You must chug water all day as if our ancestors did - despite the fact that they treated water as special as they often lugged it in pots or worked to melt it or otherwise strain/purify it. They walked to springs and streams - and treasured eating daily salt as it made it possible to hydrate much more deeply and require less water.

*In the low-carb keto world: all carbs are a monolithic poison - and diverse ancestral complex carbs like mousegrass, wild berries, certain tubers, colorful veggies and some fruits, amaranth (pigweed) seeds & leaves, other tasty spring leaves incl some oak leaves and fiddlehead ferns, plant matter in animal stomachs, seaweeds, and edible flowers should be simply dismissed and eradicated as a matter of dogma and/or rhetorical convenience. This abjectly ignores how the foundational keto physicians all aspire to help most all their patients increase metabolic flex by eventually working to increase carbs over time on behalf of true sustainability on a couple of fronts. IE, actually read the dietary programs of Drs. Eades, Phinney & Volek, Atkins, Westman, etc. (There are those who abstain from all carbs for personal health reasons (such as auto immunity issues & FODMAPS sensitivies, not dogma, and that’s totally different).

#14

What you eat is what everybody should eat.

(Raj Seth) #15

I just keep hoping my LDL doesn’t go low. I might need an anti-statin if that happens :grinning:

(Jane) #16

Skipping breakfast and lunch is not healthy.

(Bob M) #17

Even when I started low carb, I ate many times per day. I’d eat before workouts, immediately thereafter… Still lost about 30 pounds, but then stalled somewhat (always hard to tell based on scale weight whether you’re actually stalled). Then found IF and fasting, and lost another 30 or so pounds. Now, eat usually 2 meals per day, though yesterday I ate one.

#18

Here’s an idea that’s heavenly and full of heart healthy cholesterol: cook a few slices of chopped bacon, add some butter and cook 12 egg yolks in the grease. I ate this after making an angel food cake once and it was like a dessert, so good and rich :wink: I wish they had cartons of egg yolks like they do with egg whites.

(Raj Seth) #19

There’s a marketing idea!!

#20

Yep, we all thought that. At least we are learning :slight_smile: