20 Mainstream Nutrition Myths that Most People Believe (Even though they've been Proved Wrong)
Pretty interesting read.
Pretty interesting read.
Rick D
Rick is a founder at eatlocalgrown.com. He enjoys taking on near impossible pursuits. His beautiful wife of 25 years, his 3 three grown children (and his future grandchildren) provide the motivation required to keep throwing rocks at the big bad guys. In his spare time he enjoys being a dad, cooking, playing guitar, traveling, drinking good beer and hanging out with great friends.
I don't know what to believe anymore. As I mentioned on another thread, I was just diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. When I visited the dietitian, she gave me the play by play on what foods I should be eating, etc.
I then told her I had been pretty much following those exact guidelines for the last 8 years, and yet here I was in her office getting advice on how to treat my disease.
Her only comment was "Well then keep up the good work."
I'm not fond of sites that hide who is behind them. I usually get my health and nutrition information from .gov or .edu sites.
From the About Us page:
Thanks. I have proven the low carb approach works along with several others mentioned in the list.
It seemed I am on board with most every statement. Kinda reinforced what i already believed to be true.
I wouldn't trust the government to walk my dog, less tell me whats good or bad for me.
Even the education community is biased on several issues.
I'd really like to know what sources you used to decide what you believe.
I don't always correlate government with knowledge or even common sense.
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I do my best to not listen or read national news either. I watch my local news at 5:00 pm and ignore any other news until the next day a 5:00.
Places like this also seem to have good resources and nice people. So you could say DC is a source of knowledge and that knowledge put into use becomes a belief.
Just because someone believes something strongly doesn't make it true.
But, but...I clapped real hard and loud while watching Peter Pan...
Believing something strongly CAN (potentially) make it come true/manifest ...it's in the area of creative manifestation/cosmic ordering i.e. in the realm of spirituality. Many have used it successfully to bring about their desires.
No it's not a fancy name for working towards something. Clearly you are not familiar with this procedure. I did use the word CAN (and in capital letters)....of course it's not a cure all but, as mentioned, many people have successfully used "the secret" to manifest their desires. The book "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne was a bestseller and...not for nothing! It is not some new fangled, hippy trippy idea either but has its roots going way back and employs the law of attraction which is a universal law.If you're assigning a fancy name to describing and working toward what you want out of life, then fine. However, no matter how much you want it, belief alone will not cure cancer or any other serious disease. Believing strongly in it will not make homeopathy work and it won't make acupuncture cure anything. People who have type 1 diabetes or cystic fibrosis or infertility are not going to overcome them by wishing for it. And of course, the corollary of that idea is that people are responsible for whatever bad things happen to them - they didn't believe strongly enough in a positive outcome.
It's called magical thinking for a reason: magical thinking - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
That site is full of interesting reading.
junk science and pseudoscience - topical index - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
logic and perception - topical index -The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
New Thought (aka Mind Cure or Mind Science) movement - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
law of attraction
"The Secret" is like Amway for the soul.
"Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." — Mark xi. 24.
The law of attraction is a New (Dark) Age belief that one's mental disposition attracts similar external circumstances and events. In other words, your mental intentions and attitudes draw people and things of like intention and attitude to yourself. On one level this is trivially true. We generally hang out with people who think like us and share our values and we avoid people who disagree with us on important matters and don't share our values. But a moment's reflection should reveal that this "law" is false; it's not even truthy.
Sellers don't attract sellers; they attract buyers, unless they're running an MLM scheme. Lazy dreamers don't attract lazy dreamers. They attract con artists with big smiles and lots of promises. Grieving vulnerable people don't attract vulnerable people; they attract vultures and vampires who take advantage of their grief. If you say that grief and greed are both negative so this example supports the law of attraction, then this law is impossible to test. It's too slippery to have any meaningful content if obvious contradictions to it are said to support it. When kindness begets not more kindness but resentment, a New (Dark) Age defender of this "law" can always claim that the kindness wasn't genuine.
One of the main purveyors of this belief is Gary "Dancing Wu Li Masters" Zukav. According to Zukav:
Each personality draws to itself personalities with consciousness of like frequency or like weakness. The frequency of anger attracts the frequency of anger, the frequency of greed attracts greed, and so on. This is the law of attraction. Negativity attracts negativity, just as love attracts love. Therefore, the world of an angry person is filled with angry people, the world of a greedy person is filled with greedy people, and a loving person lives in a world of loving people.*
The so-called law of attraction is the kind of law that many people will find attractive. It provides them with the illusion of having control over their lives. All I need to do is change my attitude and intentions and I'll attract money like a magnet (or lose weight or whatever else it is I want to achieve). If it doesn't work, it's my fault because I didn't genuinely change my attitude and intentions. Sound familiar? What is it that the faith healers say about those who don't get healed? You didn't have enough faith!