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  • Eating Late at Night Makes You Fat on Random Food Myths

    (#9) Eating Late at Night Makes You Fat

    This myth stems from a misunderstanding of how digestion works. A large meal eaten late at night doesn't simply sit undigested in your gut. Your metabolism doesn't just stop and magically turn food into fat when you sleep, though it does slow down. Food is turned into fat because of inactivity - and that can be anything from sitting at a desk to lying down for an afternoon nap. What you eat, how much you eat, and how much you move determines if you get fat - not what time of day you eat it.
  • Seared Meat Keeps Its Juices In on Random Food Myths

    (#5) Seared Meat Keeps Its Juices In

    It's actually just the opposite. The idea of searing meat to seal in its juice stems from a 19th century experiment conducted using two pieces of meat, one of which had been soaked in water before it was grilled. Naturally, this meat was wetter than the meat that had simply been grilled. In reality, seared meat is actually less moist than grilled meat. If you like the taste of seared meat, that's great and what you should eat - just not for its moistness.
  • Grilling Meat Can Lead to Cancer on Random Food Myths

    (#4) Grilling Meat Can Lead to Cancer

    This myth seems to stem from the discovery of small amounts of the chemical acrylamide - a compound used in a number of industrial and manufacturing contexts - in some burned foods. While acrylamide has been linked to nervous system toxicity and fertility issues, you'd have to eat so much grilled meat to have a problem that you'd be dead long before you had any toxicity issues. Not to mention that acrylamide is found naturally in many foods.
  • Aluminum Cookware Gives You Alzheimers on Random Food Myths

    (#6) Aluminum Cookware Gives You Alzheimers

    This is false, and mostly the stuff of conspiracy theories. No link has been found between aluminum cookware and Alzheimer's Disease. While some research points to Alzheimer's sufferers having higher concentrations of aluminum in their brains, the studies on this are flawed and contradictory. Aluminum is also a natural metal found in trace amounts in virtually everything, so avoiding it is impossible.

    Other things that don't cause Alzheimer's include flu shots, aspartame, deodorant, and dental fillings.
  • You Should Drink 64 Ounces of Water Every Day on Random Food Myths

    (#2) You Should Drink 64 Ounces of Water Every Day

    A fragment from a government report from 1945, the idea that everyone needs to drink 64 ounces of water was seized upon by anti-soda crusaders. But what people forget is that the 1945 study said that while that much water was best, people would get most of it from prepared food. There's no scientific research that confirms how much water people need, and you don't need to drink anywhere near that much. It is still better for you than soda, though.
  • Pork Must be Overcooked to Avoid Parasites on Random Food Myths

    (#11) Pork Must be Overcooked to Avoid Parasites

    This used to be true, but isn't really anymore. The risk of contracting the parasite trichinosis has all but vanished in the United States thanks to food safety regulations, regular inspections, and better hygiene. The USDA has actually reduced the minimum safe temperature for pork to from 165 degrees to 145 in response to the reduced risk of trichinosis. You still don't want to eat pork raw, but you don't need to blast it into dry, gray oblivion.

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It is normal that people want to choose the best and most nutritious foods. Consumers have started searching online stores and supermarkets for all kinds of foods with magical effects. In fact, we must reconsider the choice of food, because some of them are unhealthy. Some people are too good at creating food myths, and these myths are only created by their own perception, without any scientific basis.

Let's take a look at some of the most common food myths and the truth. The generator displays random 17 food myths about some ordinary things, such as eggs, salt, grilling meat, etc. 

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