#nutritional misinformation

[peppermintsandbones5]

Need to shake my mom by the shoulders and tell her that fruit is NOT bad for you just because it has sugar and that it should NOT be seen as a sort of cheat food when trying to lose weight…

[ganja-hq]

Celery is so low on calories that you lose weight by chewing it

Incorrect

Unfortunately there is no such thing as negative calorie foods and celery specifically has DIT of roughly 85% as opposed to the 100+% a food would need to cause the body to burn more than it takes in, there's no known foods that fit that criterion.

Celery is also disgusting

[vitos-ordination-song]

I haven’t looked into it deeply but why are ppl so freaked out about oils. When I look at a cheeseburger like that oils are the last health concern I have, lol

[discount-goth-grill]

OH MY GOD, THIS IS SO TRUE!!!!

You can't even search about nutrients on Google, because the only "good" source of information that shows up is fucking Wikipedia and the rest of the results is just pseudoscience or bullshit.

So many bullshit online about magical nutrients that can cure all diseases e evil foods that were created the devil, so many god damned influencers and gurus saying bullshit hacks for losing weight and gaining muscles.

And the worst part is that people hold on that shit so hard. Like why is it so hard to understand that there's no magical recipe that solves all problems??? That each and every person is different and whatever problem they want to solve or goal they want to achieve will require a different strategy????

But noooo, they'd rather believe the fucking bitch on TikTok that drinks borax.

It’s crazy how there’s so much misinformation about Food. The thing we need all the time. Arguably the point of getting up each day. Fucking food. You’d think educating our young on this central component of life would be the sort of thing we’d teach them as kids, but nooo, I have to go reading up on zookeeping techniques for keeping and feeding large primates in captivity to get a straight fucking answer about carbon and phosphorus sourcing instead of a bunch of pseudoscience or fatphobia or classism or racism or just good old fashioned taboos! [Chews furniture] HOW DO YOU DEMONIZE THE POTATO

[h--hannah--h]

my nutrition teacher said that when her son had an earache she warmed smashed garlic in some olive oil and then put it in his ear.

That can’t be safe lmao.

[catmask]

honestly if i could absolve everyone of one thing it would be any lingering shame about not knowing how to take care of your body/health because of a home environment that didnt teach you how to or prevented you from doing so. i wince every time i see people snap at strangers online with 'how DIDNT you know that!?' to like, basic hygiene or nutritional information. or hell even just for having believed misinformation... i do think its important that, once youre an adult to form a curiosity about these things and i cheer everyone on who's still learning. i wish the world were gentler to us all, its difficult to know what it is you're lacking if you were never shown how to or taught the importance of how to care for yourself. i think we can all get there someday

[paradiseismade]

I've gone and found the video

https://youtu.be/hhgXukqIa5U?si=rUQEu64jriLcrrcs

It's a 2 and a half minute long video that spends its entire length pulling quotes from different published medical papers.

It's a little sensationalist but it is reporting actual scientific research. From what I can see the channel is mainly focused on reporting nutrition research with a focus on reviewing different papers and studies on various topics.

It seems to be pro-vegan but coming from actual medical and scientific evidence, which I don't think is a bad thing. Given the general consensus that western society eats too much meat and not enough veggies I generally think that's a good thing.

Certainly I wouldn't call it misinformation.

I think we should call out sensationalists who try to mislead people about health topics but this is quite literally a breakdown of scientific literature. From a cursory watch of a few videos they seem to accurately cite every paper they reference and often the short videos link to longer explanations.

I think there's other YouTube channels out there that push a lot more misinformation and this is probably one of the better channels out there actually trying to educate people.

OP is correct, the video itself mainly addresses the effects of the tapeworms not how they're contracted but that's because it is reporting on a recent study about how widespread these worms are. Also it's from 12 years ago so I suppose it's unlikely to be up to date.

OH MY GOD does it fucking piss me off that some piece of shit owns "nutritionfacts.org" and uses it to spread outright lies about health. Fucking asshole. This video on youtube is over a decade old with countless views, and it directly implies that you can get a tapeworm infection in your brain from eating raw pork.

I've one on this rant several times before but I'll go on it again: Tapeworms have a complex life cycle where every single stage behaves completely different, and is contracted in a completely different way. The simplified version is that you will only get tapeworm larvae in your brain or other tissues if you ingest tapeworm eggs from fecal matter, such as in contaminated water, soil, or unwashed produce. The stage that can be found in raw meat is what becomes the adult tapeworm, which is very easy to treat and not life threatening. This video and many other fearmongering articles on "PORK tapeworms IN YOUR BRAIN!!!!" either does no research or deliberately leaves out the critical details in order to conflate all stages of tapeworm as the same exact thing and scare people into thinking they'll get it from a fucking hot dog. Naturally the comments on these are full of smug veganism of course. Don't tell them all the nastiest, deadliest food-borne illnesses pretty much come from lettuce. If you want to understand why it works that way I'll put the longer technical life cycle explanation under a cut:

So a tapeworm begins as a microscopic egg. It's very sticky, and it can survive a long time "hibernating" in that egg, like a sea monkey! The only thing that will hatch the egg is exposure to stomach acid when it gets accidentally swallowed by something. When this egg hatches, it becomes a specific type of larva that only exists to tunnel out of the stomach, keep tunneling through the tissues of the body, and eventually become a "cyst." This is another "hibernating" stage. It doesn't feed or grow. It just stays there hanging out in the meat, and unfortunately, sometimes hanging out in the brain tissue. The goal of this cyst is to be eaten again, by a carnivore. When this cyst comes into contact with stomach acid again, it begins development into the adult tapeworm, the one that just chills in your digestive tract and absorbs your digested food. This can grow very large and it can cause metabolic problems but it is not very dangerous; some people have one for their whole adult life and never know it. It is extremely easy to treat. The danger of the adult is that it produces the eggs, millions of them, which come out in the host's feces. As mentioned earlier, the only FOOD that might have these eggs on it is food potentially handled by someone who doesn't wash their hands, which unfortunately includes a lot of produce. Fecal contamination is very common in hand-picked vegetables, especially those that outsource to poorly treated, poorly paid labor (which is lots of them)

[acti-veg]

As the link between animal agriculture and climate breakdown becomes clearer, if anything, we are seeing more ordinary people falling over themselves to defend an industry that is destroying our planet, polluting our communities, exploiting animals and human workers. This is especially worrying to see from leftists, in spaces that are supposed to be progressive. I promise you, you do not need to spend your time greenwashing leather and wool, repeating blatant industry propaganda about veganism, 'regenerative agriculture' or whatever other buzzword they're using to sow doubt this week. The industry already spends millions of your dollars to lobby our politicians and influence public opinion; they don't need you to do it for free.

Vox – The greenwashing of wool explained

New Republic – The comforting lie of climate-friendly meat

Guardian – Big Beef’s climate messaging machine

The Breakthrough – Is Feedlot Beef Better for Environment?

International Journey of Biodiversity – Misinformation on Science of Grazed Ecosystems

Food Climate Research Network – Grazed & Confused

Science 2.0 – The regenerative ranching racket

DeSmog – A guide to six greenwashing terms

Truthdig – The backlash to plant-based meats

Independent – Meat & dairy industries downplaying role in climate crisis using tobacco tactics

Guardian – Meat & dairy lobbyists turn out in record numbers at COP28

Greenpeace – How Big Agriculture is borrowing Big Oil’s playbook at COP28

Guardian – Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed

Guardian – Ex-officials at UN farming body say work on methane emissions was censored

Guardian – How UN food body played down role of farming in climate change

QZ – The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based diet

The Times – Red Tractor farms more likely to pollute environment

Influence Map – European meat & dairy industry weaken EU’s climate policies

The Grocer – Meat Industry lobbying behind cultured meat bans

Food Unfolded – Truth, tactics and the mist of meat lobby science

Business Green – Climate lobbying: Are meat and dairy lobbyists the ‘new merchants of doubt’?

[fuck-customers]

Imagine trying to work in pet nutrition, sounds easy at first. Until you realize that 99% of America doesn’t even understand how to feed themselves so imagine what morons they are when they try to feed their dogs.

These are the issues I see on a daily basis:

Calories. Everyone has misinformation on what calories in food even are, idk how many times I’ve explained this one .

Fat content. Everyone with an obese dog thinks their dog needs a low-fat diet, when it’s the caloric surplus that is making them obese.

Carbs. Same as fat, everyone with an obese dog swears that carbohydrates are the culprit even though there are plenty of athletic prize-winning dogs that are on high-carb diets, which brings up the next concern…

Physical Activity. People think walking their dog around the block once a day is enough to count their physical activity as “high” when it’s actually a mere 10 minute walk, and then they wonder why their dog won’t lose any weight even though he’s on a low-fat diet.

Water content. When I explain to people that the food we are going to give them has a high water content, they go “well why do you guys add water to the food for?” So I explain that we aren’t adding water, all food just naturally has water in it. Somehow this leads them to believe that I’m lying to them and making up false things because they cannot fathom that chicken breast has moisture in it and moisture = WATER.

Poultry. It’s actually common that people need me to explain what poultry is because they simply never even heard of the word. Which I don’t understand because even at the grocery store there are signs labeling the poultry apart from the fish, red meat etc.

Welcome to America, where even the dogs are morbidly obese because no one can do simple research on nutrition without falling down some fad-diet rabbit hole.

Posted by admin Rodney

[eugenedebs1920]

As of Monday afternoon the wildfires in California had consumed over 36,000 acres leaving a death toll of 24. When asked in an interview regarding funding for disaster relief, Alabama senator Tommy Tubervill said this “We shouldn’t be [funding California]. They got 30 million people in that state they vote in these imbeciles in to office” former collage football coach and by far the dumbest senator continued, “you go in to California you run in to a lot of Republicans, a lot of good people and I hate it for them. But they are just overwhelmed by these inner city woke policies with people who vote for them. Those people don’t deserve anything unless they show that they’re going to make some changes”.

Notwithstanding the not so subtle racism of ‘inner city woke’ comment, exactly what is the senator from the state ranked 44th out of 50 for living standards, health, education, opportunity, natural environment, ect, saying?

Alabama’s GDP grosses $300 billion, with a population of a little over 5.1 million people, they are the 14th highest recipient of federal welfare assistance, they are 45th in education and 44th in overall health. Over 360,000 residents receive rental assistance and nutritional assistance.

Yes. California ranks number one for dollar amount federal assistance. Although upon further analysis the percentages are far less unbalanced as the numbers would suggest.

California is the WORLDS 5th largest economy, grossing $3,862 billion annually, with a population of nearly 40 million. That is over 10 times the annual revenue Alabama takes in, with almost 10 times the population as well.

Does California have its share of difficult circumstances it deals with, with some questionable solutions to do so? Yes. Yet seeing as it’s the top contributor to federal tax revenue they obviously are functioning beyond the norm.

Overall the states that fund this nation the most are, California, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania and Florida. States such as the Dakotas, Wyoming, Mississippi, Kentucky, and yes, Alabama, contribute a dismal amount in contrast.

Let’s look back to late summer of last year. When two hurricanes devastated the the lower southeastern states, Helene causing monumental destruction and incredible loss of life. Did the Biden administration use these disasters as a political tool? Did he suggest that they shouldn’t get funding until they remedy their bigoted, unconstitutional voter suppression and gerrymandering? No. He said that the United States government is here for you. While right wing politicians and media plastered the victims with false statements and misinformation, confusing and misleading the afflicted Americans, FEMA and the Biden administration begged the survivors to reach out for help. The politically motivated lies even spurred FEMA to create a specific website combating the false claims and offering assistance.

There’s the old saying, Rome wasn’t made in a day, the recovery from these massive events unfortunately takes time also. Yet NEVER did Democrats or Biden lead folks astray, exploit their vulnerability, or abandon them. I know, I reside in a county that was declared a disaster area after Helene. The federal response was quick, and thorough.

What did the right do? Lie. Mislead. Frighten. Contrive a self serving narrative. Enrage those impacted and scrambling to piece their lives back together.

The void of compassion, the insufficiency of truth, the lack of maturity from much of the right is astounding. When did we begin using the suffering of Americans as a tool to advance your political agenda? When did it become the status quo to segregate assistance to only those who align with your political views? What was the moment when helping your fellow American out in a time of need was tethered to conditions?

In my just over 40 years on this earth I’ve seen the GOP go from being a party of fiscal responsibility, “Christian family values”, the party of law and order, and the party of high moral standards, to now where over a quarter of the current deficit was created in one Republican presidential term, a party of nominating, elected and confirming sexual assailants and predators (not just Trump), a party that not only backs and supports a felonious insurrectionist, but tiptoes, if not flat out violates the Constitution and rule of law, and a party that has no self awareness of its own misgivings.

Personally. I want leaders who are far more intelligent and far more qualified than me to be in charge. I want leaders who harbor self restraint and possess an extraordinary sense of moral fortitude. I want leaders with grace and maturity running the various aspects of this country. I want leaders who care and hold reverence to their values and to the oath of office they swear to.

Can we go back to a time where those who represent us were adults? Can we go back to a time where government was beholden to you as an American citizen regardless if you reside in a blue state or red state? Can we go back to a time where leadership wasn’t a popularity, tribalist, culture war crusade?

We are all humans. We all feel pain. We all feel joy. We all bleed red. Most importantly we are all citizens of the United States of America, key word united.

This shouldn’t be this hard. It shouldn’t be this controversial or complicated. We are one nation, we all want to see it flourish. We all do better when we are all doing better.

So please! Let’s return to decency. To compassion. To respect. To some mild form of social adhesion.

[homeofhousechickens]

I saw this chart being shared around which was either made by an AI/bot or a very misinformed person (notice how it keeps repeating high nutrition value on colors that should def give you the ick) so I'm going to share my egg yolk color post from my patreon.

And here is my 2 year old patreon post if you want to learn what yolk colors really mean/ I think it covers everything besides blood/meat spots which are just due to the oviduct or blood vessels getting damaged in the egg laying process

"Its uncommon but sometimes egg yolks can come in a variety of colors besides shades of yellow and orange. Egg yolks are usually various shades of orange and yellow due to Xanthophylls, specifically Lutein. Xanthophylls are a yellow pigment and a type of carotenoid mostly found in leafy green plants. These pigments are what give free range chickens such a nice rich orange color to their yolks. There is a catch though, us humans know that lutein is what makes egg yolks that nice color so sometimes companies add it into their feed to give the impression that their poultry feed is healthier then their competitors. Sadly this also means that nice orange egg yolks don't necessarily mean the chicken that laid it lived a nice lifestyle. There are other egg yolk colors besides orange and yellow, such as white for example. This only happens when the hen in question is on a diet severely lacking in sources of Lutein, so no corn, leafy greens, grains, ect. So it usually means a chicken is lacking nutritionally and will be fixed immediately when on a better diet. Bright red is another color that can be caused by a variety of reasons. Red yolks can be from a hen eating a lot of sources of lutein and red pigments, such as nice green grass. peppers, or it can be from trauma in the oviduct which led to blood being in the yolk. Sometimes its just nutrition but its always safe to check your eggs over in case this is unusual for your hen. Another interesting color is black and green. These egg yolks are usually caused by cottenseed meal. They are this color due to an overabundance of Gossypol a yellow and brown pigment that is toxic in high amounts to both humans and chickens and very abundant in cottonseeds. Cottenseed meal is sometimes used in some poorer quality feed and silage as filler and as a protein source even though it has anti-nutritional properties. Sadly this can have a negative effect on chickens who eat to much causing long term damage to their digestive health and physically changing their crop. It can also cause eggs to become rubbery in texture and have pinkish egg whites. For these reasons you never want to eat egg yolks of this color. Lastly we have olive green. Olive Green egg yolks are most commonly caused by curious chickens eating acorns or by being fed acorn meal. Not only do acorns cause the bizarre change in color they also cause the eggs to taste weird. Acorns have a high amount of tannins in them, just like tea and just like tea they tend to have a naturally bitter flavor, not something you want to taste in your eggs! Tannins can also be toxic in high amounts so be mindful of your chickens diet if you see them. I think that covers most varieties and the reasons they happen. Its generally a good idea to not eat eggs that are questionable or a weird color in anyway, especially since some dangerous bacteria can change the color of the egg yolk or even the egg whites. So if your eggs arent the usual yellow and to reddish orange shades it may be a good idea to throw out the egg." https://www.patreon.com/posts/64183457

[3liza]

ok i have to sleep so i havent read this past the abstract yet but i saw a thumbnail on youtube of YET ANOTHER episode of My Strange Addiction featuring a Black woman so i figured i would bang this drum again because its one of my pet issues and it makes me crazy: My Strange Addiction is trash reality tv obviously but the specific way it is trash is in how the word "pica" is not mentioned at any point during any episode of the show that i am aware of, making it not only exploitative but actively spreading medically damaging misinformation specifically about Black women, who for complicated and not-totally-understood reasons are the patient demographic overwhelmingly likely to have symptoms of pica, which is usually a nutritional deficiency, occasionally a culturebound syndome, and sometimes an aspect of OCD or ARFID, but almost always a medical issue with a physical component that needs to be investigated with physical testing. sending a pica patient to a therapist, which is all they do on that fucking show, is like sending someone to get counseling for being vitamin D deficient.

also if you or someone you know eats non-food items in this manner (clay, chalk, dust, soil, pottery, paper, and related items are really common pica targets but not exclusively) please go to a general practitioner about it and do some reading about pica yourself, you are not crazy or broken you have a common disorder that can often be easily treated. and it is bad for you to continue eating this stuff, even if youve been okay so far. even if your relatives/mother/grandmother also does it. just a PSA

edit: i'm not sure why eating ice is included in the pica definition but i see it listed regularly. eating ice seems normal to me its just water??? i have no explanation for eating ice being medicalized in this context

[moreespressoformydepresso]

I was talking with two friends yesterday and it reminded my barely functional brain of a TBOSAS AU I apparently haven’t posted yet, so I bring you: the tributes stop the games by being grumbley

A while back I made a post about the headcanon that the tribute names are being pronounced incorrectly and that’s what makes them seem “weird”, and I can think of several ways this might get the games cancelled. The most obvious one being the mentors combining their growing fondness of their tributes with the knowledge that the Capitol proudly and openly mispronounced every single name on the tribute list and was convinced of it being the right pronunciation until the tributes corrected them. Bonus points if the mentors try to “correct” the tributes and getting hit in the face with reality.

“It’s actually pronounced T⟨r⟩ee-tsj Mè⟨r⟩an…”

“That r can’t be right and your emphasis is off.”

“A- are you-“ Treech gave Vipsania a look somewhere between disbelief and disdain. “Are you trying to correct me on the pronunciation of my own name?!”

The other tributes are cackling behind him and Vipsania splutters, trying to save herself from the embarrassment, before realizing how stupid that was and clearing her throat, changing the subject rather unceremoniously. Every chance the tributes get, they correct the mentors on misinformation or mispronunciation. It starts off as pure spite for the sake of entertainment, but soon becomes genuine annoyance with just how confidently incorrect these stuck up brats are. Meanwhile, the mentors realize with every correction that maybe they don’t know as much about the districts as they thought they did. Every little thing they get wrong makes them wonder even more what else they thought to be true is actually bullshit. It also gets them (and the rest of the Capitol) a little more interested in District culture since the tributes share some super cool or interesting things.

On the other hand, though, the tributes also confirm a thing or two, except the way they describe it has a totally different vibe than the rumors the Capitol took as fact. For example: I have a headcanon that District 7 partially relies on edible tree bark for nutrition, especially in the cold winters. In summer they smuggle as much food from the forest as possible to stock up for harsh famine winters where they cannot grow their own extra food and all the animals are hidden for their winter nap. District 10 eats all the parts of the animal the Capitol doesn’t want, they’ve found ways to make even the disgusting bits taste good. 9 and 11 have found ways to secretly grow small patches of plants that don’t look out of the ordinary but are actually super nutritious. They eat things like tulip bulbs and sugar beets and parts of plants the Capitol sees no value in. (These headcanons are inspired by the hungerwinter)

At first, the mentors are disgusted with the idea of eating bark or the “bad” animal parts, but then the tributes talk more about it and it truly hits the Capitol that the districts are basically living through the seige the Capitol hates the rebels for so much. Festus is particularly affected by the D7 bit, because a whole district is kept alive by tree bark because his dad can’t be bothered to just send them more food. Why? Because it would lessen profits. It gets the mentors to realize just how dire the situation in the districts is, even 10 years after the rebellion, and the outcry against the Games and the fact that the Capitol is doing exactly what they hate the rebels for gets so bad that the president is forced to shut down the games to focus on putting out this political wildfire.

The mentors whose parents have say in the districts twist their parents’ arms into fixing these conditions, if only so they can stop thinking about tiny children chewing on intestines or tree bark or flower bulbs in a desperate bid to survive.

[bunposting]

Rabbit Resources Folder

Hey y'all, I've created a Google Drive containing a few of the PDFs of rabbit resources I've collected - hopefully this can serve as a good starting point for anyone looking to learn more about rabbit care/welfare that isn't tainted by misinformation from animal rights groups such as House Rabbit Society. I'll try to update this folder any time I find other resources (things like peer reviewed research and publications by the ARBA and other animal welfare groups)!

Currently in the folder:

ARBA Care Recommendations (ARBA) - A document containing all of the ARBA's rabbit basic care recommendations.

Feeding Meat Rabbits for Free (Megan Hight) - A bit of an outlier but still worth adding, this is a guide created by a homesteader for feeding rabbits a primarily forage-based diet. Note that this person is based in the southeastern USA, so while there is a lot of great information here, it may not be relevant to everyone.

Rabbit Feeding and Nutrition (Peter R. Cheeke) - Literally an entire textbook solely on the feeding and nutrition of rabbits.

Rabbit Production 9th Edition (Steven D. Lukefahr et al.) - A previous edition of the Rabbit Production textbook.

Rabbit Production 10th Edition (Steven D. Lukefahr et al.) - A textbook on just about everything you could possibly want to know about raising and caring for rabbits!

Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits 5th Edition (Bob Bennett) - One of the most commonly recommended starter guides for raising rabbits, great for beginners and fairly easy to read.

Veterinary Care of Farm Rabbits - A Complete Practice Guide to Rabbit Medicine and Production (João Simões et al.) - An admittedly dense but thorough textbook on, you guessed it, rabbit medicine and production. This also includes a guide to performing a necropsy.

[itsbansheebitch]

Fanfiction as a Learning Tool

Imagine if we were able to use fanfic as a learning tool. You could get people interested in topics they would otherwise hate (or think they'd hate) or you could inform people on topics that could effect the plot.

You wouldn't have to simplify it or water it down much because the reader is already interested. You could get people informed, and it's not like writers are strangers to research. There are literal memes about it.

Just to clarify, here's some examples:

DC X DP crossover: Bruce adopts Danny and thinks he's vaping (ghost sense) and gives him a lecture while Danny has to find a way to explain that he's never vaped in his life lmao

Undertale (Horrortale AU): Human falls into the Underground and had a hyperfixation/special interest in cannibalism. This allows them to remember the the Harris Benedict Equation, and other options for food (leather, bark, etc). You could get into misinformation about nutrition, the importance of rest in the human body, etc. Not to mention the psychological and sociological coping mechanisms that come with survival cannibalism.

Supernatural: You could teach the history of cryptozoology and ghost hunting

These are just some examples, but hopefully this is getting your gears turning. I genuinely think that this could help young people practice their media literacy skills, reading more, and staying informed.

Reading fanfic is actually a great tool when it comes to practicing reading, finding what you like, and learning new things.

I know we all meme on fanfic sometimes (My Immortal) but fanfiction could actually be used this way, and just because it's not a published work, doesn't mean it's not as good as books. Also, it being free to read fanfic means people from all walks of life can read it and learn. It could be very helpful to see how different people live.

I swear I've learned more about Romani culture from Romani people writing DC fanfic than I've ever learned in my whole life lol.

I wouldn't recommend it in schools (due to grey area legality and censorship), but I think it could be a new form of informal learning. What do ya'll think?