{"id":16169,"date":"2015-08-16T10:46:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10-enduring-health-myths-debunked-by-science"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:15","slug":"10-enduring-health-myths-debunked-by-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/10-enduring-health-myths-debunked-by-science","title":{"rendered":"10 Enduring Health Myths, Debunked By Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/10-enduring-health-myths-debunked-by-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything makes you fat! Gluten-free food is the key to eternal youth! You need to poop once per day or you\u2019ll die! You\u2019ll find tons of equally ridiculous health claims around the internet, and some of them are widely believed. Today we\u2019re taking a look at 10 common myths and uncovering the truth.<\/p>\n<p>While we\u2019ve learned a lot about health issues here at Lifehacker over the years, we can\u2019t claim expertise on any particular subject. To help us get to the root of these myths, we solicited the help of three experts: Dr Carly Stewart (medical expert at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneycrashers.com\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.moneycrashers.com']);\">Money Crashers<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/smallbites.andybellatti.com\/\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/smallbites.andybellatti.com']);\">Andy Bellatti<\/a> (Las Vegas-based registered dietitian), and Dr Spencer Nadolsky (medical editor at <a href=\"http:\/\/examine.com\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/examine.com']);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Examine.com\">Examine.com<\/a><\/a>). They all offer a unique perspective on each myth but mostly came to the same conclusions: we have a lot of silly misinformation out there about our health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2015\/08\/10-health-myths-that-just-wont-die-debunked-by-science\/?utm_content=bufferd3b53&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything makes you fat! Gluten-free food is the key to eternal youth! You need to poop once per day or you\u2019ll die! You\u2019ll find tons of equally ridiculous health claims around the internet, and some of them are widely believed. Today we\u2019re taking a look at 10 common myths and uncovering the truth. While we\u2019ve [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69716,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions\/69716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}