Food: Myths, Lies, and Straight Talk

10. Eating Home is Safer
With many cases of food poisoning from restaurant food, is eating home safer? Actually NO. If you like to watch the show, How Clean is Your House?, you know what I'm talking about. At least, restaurants are graded by the Health Department, so they have the pressure to maintain their restaurant and kitchen as hygiene as possible. There are only a few food poisoning cases every year. You have a better chance get bitten by a shark at Times Square than get a food poisoning from a restaurant. Well, that's how they put it =)

9. Brand Name is Better
Apparently, store brands have the similar taste and nutrition with the national brand name, like Chips Ahoy, Tropicana Orange Juice, Kellogg's, etc. Not to mention that some of the store brands actually taste better than the national brands. Why? Because those store brands are made by the same manufacturer as the national brands.

8. Carrots Help Your Eyes
Not really. After a certain amount consume, it doesn't make any difference anymore.

7. Beer Before Liquor Makes You Less Sicker
Alcohol is alcohol guys!

6. Green Tea Fights Cancer
Green tea has a unique antioxidant that can't be found anywhere else, and antioxidant prevents cancer. Asians have been drinking tea for more than 50 centuries, and they have the smallest population of people with cancer.

5. Don't Swallow Chewing Gum
It's true.

4. Sugar Makes Your Kids Hyper
It's a myth.

3. Margarine is Healthier
True if you choose the right margarine, like Smart Balance and Benacol.

2. Expensive Coffee Tastes Better
It's not true. You just assume that it's better because you expect them to be better since they're more expensive.

1. Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day
Believe it or not, according to an expert it's a myth, you don't need to drink 8 glasses of water a day because all of the food that you consume contains water. A slice of bread is more than 30% water. So you actually get most of your fluid from food, not water.

Source: 20/20, ABC Primetime, April 22nd, 2005.