What's the most ridiculous advice you've seen or question asked in Nutrition?

[bretthobbs2008]

I know we all love these questions that make you just scratch your head and wonder how someone came to this conclusion so why not put them all together in one place?!

In this nutrition section I have seen the following questions...

How many carbs does toothpaste have I accidentally swallowed some? (100% srs)
Will drinking too much water make me fat? (sigh)

There are many many more I could list but I think that will get the ball rolling! Bring on the most ridiculous things you have heard in this section!

[Fabs23]

I'm going to be traveling and wont have access to creatine, so I took a 7 day advance dose of 35g's.

(I'm paraphrasing but you get the idea)

[bretthobbs2008]

I'm going to be traveling and wont have access to creatine, so I took a 7 day advance dose of 35g's.

(I'm paraphrasing but you get the idea)

Wow haha, haven't heard that one.

Will eating 2 strawberries in the morning make me fat? I ran so it should be okay right?

[ChecksandGiggles]

You think there's ridiculous sh!t on here, look at the Yahoo Answers Diet&Fitness section. 60% anorexia, 20% spam, 20% broscience.

[bretthobbs2008]

You think there's ridiculous sh!t on here, look at the Yahoo Answers Diet&Fitness section. 60% anorexia, 20% spam, 20% broscience.

Please do share

[BloodRaged]

Anything SpiceTunaRoll Advises!

[bretthobbs2008]

Anything SpiceTunaRoll Advises!

Idk what you are talking about his information is spot on! ;D

[ChecksandGiggles]

Please do share

All right, prepare yourself.

First, a link to the horse's mouth. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_...?sid=396545382

Some questions people are asking:
"Can I become Anorexic????Please Help.?"
"What is the average Weight for a girl 11 years old and is 4'11" tall?"
"can i die from walking up 36 flights?"

and so on. I'm gonna stop looking there now, I feel my brain disintegrating.

[zeetis]

lol, you're onto a winner alright there's some crackers on there!

"random question. Are there calories in face wash? if you were to eat a spoonful would there be any?"

"Calories in random items. If someone were to eat soap,face wash, would it have any calories? Can your body..?"

[bretthobbs2008]

All right, prepare yourself.

First, a link to the horse's mouth. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_...?sid=396545382

Some questions people are asking:
"Can I become Anorexic????Please Help.?"
"What is the average Weight for a girl 11 years old and is 4'11" tall?"
"can i die from walking up 36 flights?"

and so on. I'm gonna stop looking there now, I feel my brain disintegrating.

You poor poor soul lol... how have you survived there? XD

[bretthobbs2008]

Not neccessarily about nutrition but funny none the less...

"If I jack off too much will that cause muscle loss due to the protein loss?"

I lol'd outta my chair from that one... to think that it was done so excessively that it might be an issue still makes me chuckle

[BloodRaged]

Not neccessarily about nutrition but funny none the less...

"If I jack off too much will that cause muscle loss due to the protein loss?"

I lol'd outta my chair from that one... to think that it was done so excessively that it might be an issue still makes me chuckle

At one point and time I actually wondered something similar to this. It was how sex or masturbation would effect test levels.

Being in the military and having a golden gloves roommate this was kind of put into my head.

I've later found that it's actually beneficial to do it regularly because if you don't then you could actually risk lowering the test levels.

[phal]

All right, prepare yourself.

First, a link to the horse's mouth. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/index;_...?sid=396545382

Some questions people are asking:
"Can I become Anorexic????Please Help.?"
"What is the average Weight for a girl 11 years old and is 4'11" tall?"
"can i die from walking up 36 flights?"

and so on. I'm gonna stop looking there now, I feel my brain disintegrating.

It's only a matter of time until these forums completely turn into that

[BloodRaged]

It's only a matter of time until these forums completely turn into that

... what do you mean turn into...

Gay questions like these pop up from time to time but they tend to fall back in pages... I wonder why....

[ChecksandGiggles]

You poor poor soul lol... how have you survived there? XD

You know, I'm not sure. I stuck around there for about a month or so giving good advice to people. But unfortunately, the advice I gave them generally went something like "Work hard and stop stuffing your face with sh!t." That was hard for people to understand, as they would rather pop acai berry pills or eat straight cabbage soup for 10 days.

[dago85]

"Yesterday i took 2 pills of multivitaminic and on the label wrote only 1 pill for day. now what's happen?"


ahahahahah

[phal]

... what do you mean turn into...

Gay questions like these pop up from time to time but they tend to fall back in pages... I wonder why....

True, though they usually get bumped every 5 minutes by the OP. I've been reading these threads on the yahoo forums for 3 minutes now and I've yet to see a legitimate question.

We're lucky though, this site has a lot of subsections. If there was one giant Diet/Fitness/Nutrition forum imagine the stupidity .. oy vey.

[BloodRaged]

True, though they usually get bumped every 5 minutes by the OP. I've been reading these threads on the yahoo forums for 3 minutes now and I've yet to see a legitimate question.

We're lucky though, this site has a lot of subsections. If there was one giant Diet/Fitness/Nutrition forum imagine the stupidity .. oy vey.

No doubt, when I first joined I tried to be fairly active but it's like the longer you are here and the more you read every day it's like the same ****ing 5 questions constantly get asked.

It just get's a bit boring answering them. Granted I like this section and don't really read other sub sections.

[bretthobbs2008]

No doubt, when I first joined I tried to be fairly active but it's like the longer you are here and the more you read every day it's like the same ****ing 5 questions constantly get asked.

It just get's a bit boring answering them. Granted I like this section and don't really read other sub sections.

Well without this section we wouldn't have met the almighty nutrtionist that is spicy

[snorkelman]

"I'm trying to watch my calorie intake. What is the maximum number of sticks of sugarless gum should I chew per day?"

[bretthobbs2008]

Skimmed over that yahoo page... "Is it healthy to be anorexic?"

Good God lol...

[BloodRaged]

Skimmed over that yahoo page... "Is it healthy to be anorexic?"

Good God lol...

**** like that doesn't even surprise me these days.

Generally people are ****ing retarded. I mean seriously, sometimes I just give blank stares at people in real life and remind myself that humans are for the most part... stupid as ****.

[SwiftyX]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=121131991

[bretthobbs2008]

**** like that doesn't even surprise me these days.

Generally people are ****ing retarded. I mean seriously, sometimes I just give blank stares at people in real life and remind myself that humans are for the most part... stupid as ****.

I mean I think we were all pretty clueless starting out, but.. wow lol

[BloodRaged]

I mean I think we were all pretty clueless starting out, but.. wow lol

Eh, I'm talking in general not just body building and nutritional info.

I mean seriously, sometimes I wonder what the **** is going on.

I'm not Einstein and I can't spell for **** but I mean come on... really.

:P

[cheeseandrice]

Will drinking too much water make me fat? (sigh)
!

my EX told me drinking water with your meal makes you fat

i told her it was the dumbest thing ive ever heard

shes a fat cow right now, by the way.

[bretthobbs2008]

I hate it when people turn a simple thing like "losing weight" into a huge complicated "lifestyle change" in which they try to precisely dial in every aspect of an ideal diet immediately.

So they'll cut out "junk food" and all of that and replace it with "healthy food" (which can be just as calorically dense). Then they'll try to avoid foods that are high in fat (such as certain meats, eggs, so on). Then they'll try to avoid foods that are high in carbs. The astute of you will note that this leaves only protein. So their only choices are protein shakes and lean meats at this point.

Of course these people are going to find the thought of drinking a protein shake disgusting and vile, so instead they'll try lean meats. But then at some point they start to feel bad for eating so much MEAT, and they'll come across the statistic that vegetarians live 10 years longer on average and vegans 15 years longer, so they'll try the vegetarian thing.

Since fats and carbs are out, and protein shakes, and lean meats, that means they can mainly eat fruits, veggies, beans, rice, and beans. But wait, rice isn't good either -- you need to eat BROWN rice rather than white rice. Because the white rice has all the nutrients removed.

But wait, rice is all carbs! Why eat rice, if it's all carbs? But it's okay, because it's vegetarian, right? No, but it's carbs! But it's vegetarian! Is it organic!? What the hell is going on@? Then they decide that the carbs in rice and beans are okay because they're organic vegetarian carbs, and continue with that diet. Well, maybe nuts are okay as well. Of course, overeating "clean" food isn't much better than overeating "dirty" food, and if they're going entirely by hunger, then they're likely to stay at maintenance where they started. Maybe even a bit over if they're compulsively eating nuts.

But they also start doing cardio... lots of cardio. Cardio at 6 AM, fasted. 3 mile runs. 4 mile runs. Pushing themselves harder and harder to do these runs. Can't stay up late and have a social life, gotta run at 6 AM tomorrow. Oh god I missed a day of running... ****ed up my diet. Then they'll go to the 2 hour abs/pilates class to try to spot reduce on the abdominal region and waste more unnecessary time...

Then after dropping a lot of water weight for the first two weeks, the weight loss stalls, and they realize how much effort they're putting into this, and they decide they're just "fat" and that's how it is, and they have slow metabolisms or whatever, so they start to think they have to keep this up for the rest of their lives or else they'll get fat again.

They could be skipping all of this and whatever they want for 3 meals a day while doing only as much cardio as they want and keeping their calories 500 under maintenance... but of course, it's too much work to count your calories, who wants to do that?

When did you meet my sister? lol

[SumDumGoi]

My favorites are:

1) "Does fruit make you fat"?

2) "Chris Aceto, what do you think about...................."

[bretthobbs2008]

"why is my metabolism so slow!?"

Do you exercise?

"no"

Do you eat healthy?

"no"

Facepalm

"your right must be genetics!"

Headslam into wall

[Lifterforlife10]

If you guys love the current questions being asked, just wait till christmas and after to new years.
One of my favorites was when it was asked if one counts the calories in your pre and post workout meals or do they not count