Things being low fat. Sometimes it's just watered down or packed with sugar, so it may not be healthy at all
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Counter point - fat is actually healthy
No one food is "healthy" or "unhealthy", it always depends on how much of it and what else you eat.
True. But fat is one of the foods it's hard to eat too much of.
Try to sit down to a big bowl of butter. It's just hard to eat by itself. In fact it's one of the tricks used in the keto community to determine a addictive craving versus actual hunger. If you're willing to eat butter by itself, you're hungry, if you're not willing to eat the butter but you still have a craving that's addiction
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Trans fats are bad.
Excess saturated fat could be bad depending on the health condition of the person.
Trans fats are bad.
ok, yeah, agreed.
Excess saturated fat could be bad depending on the health condition of the person.
This doesn't match my reading of the literature. Even if someone had extensive CVD dietary fat wont increase their bad outcome risks. The damaged cholesterol (glycated and oxidate) is the warning sign of CVD issues - and that is caused by dietary sugar/carbs/industrial oils.
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There's a myth that MSG is bad for you and is found in Chinese restaurants. MSG has been studied extensively and never found to cause the symptoms people claim, furthermore MSG is used widely in a huge range of food production (lots of sauces, fast foods etc etc)
MSG is very common in mushrooms, Parmesan cheese, and tomatoes. It's why people love Italian food ao much
I can literally buy it by the bucket.
Same with aspartame. Its been studied until the cows come home and it is safe.
That individual health can be discussed separately from societal conditions such as what the market offers, salary levels, pollution, transport system, working hours, labour market, insurance system et cetera. "If you want to be healthy it is just your own individual responsibility to purchase healthy commercial products and services".
Where I grew up, the well water was poisoned by a chemical dump in the 70's. The public water system that was to replace the wells, draws their water just down stream of said dumpsite and downstream of a nuclear processing plant that dumps heavy radioactive metals into the river.
Guess its my fault for contributing to global pollution by buying bottled water shipped dozens of miles away.
Detoxing.
If you have working kidneys, you shouldn't need to detox.
Also: weight-loss teas. they give you diharrea so you lose weight in water, which you will immediately gain again.
I have a co-worker who says she was using some pads that you put on the bottom of your feet and then go to sleep. You wake up in the morning and remove the pad to see it covered in black stuff. Claiming to have all those toxins leave her body.
I highly doubt that was the case.
That there are a lot of "Chemicals" in something, and that it's bad for you.
Everything is Chemicals.
dihydrogen monoxide = water
Anti-vaxxers sadly
You need to shower/bathe often. Actually the skin, the biggest organ of our bodies, is great at taking care of itself and washing it (especially with soap et.al) is bad if done too much.
"But(t) smell!"
Well yeah, I agree, but that doesn't change the way our skin has evolved :P
I have seborrheic dermatitis so not washing my skin causes a rash.
But that's a fungus allergy so aren't you mostly treating it with anti-fungus medication?
(One of the proposed mechanisms for why skin becomes allergic to the malassezia yeast in the first place is that we disturb it through our washing routines but there's no consensus on that afaik)
I'm candida overgrowth myself and too much washing with soap worsens it in my case. The human body is a wonderful thing :P
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Normal blood tests means you are healthy
That said, more people should do blood tests regularly and observe the trends. I wish I had my blood tested much earlier. By the time the symptoms surface, a lot of damage is already done.
Yes. It goes both ways but since it was about myths, I posted only one side.
Ugh. Love, Long Covid.
RFK Jr.
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