Myth 30: Lots Of Milk Builds Strong Bones

For years, doctors and scientists have told the public to drink milk, eat dairy products and take calcium supplements to improve bone health and prevent osteoporosis. The problem is they’re wrong.

Myth 29: High Fructose Corn Syrup Is The Worst Of The Evils

Aside from the obvious nutritional benefits of ingesting natural sugars from their source , eating foods created from refined sugar of any kind seems to fall firmly within the jurisdiction of the epithet, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Myth 24: Breast is best

Are the actual benefits of breastfeeding so great that they trump all objections to the decision to breast feed? We’ve spent 30 years researching it and the Magic 8 Ball keeps turning up the same answer. “No. Ask again later.”

Myth 23: Breastfeeding prevents obesity

A longer period of breastfeeding was associated with lower BMI (a measure for weight) at one year of age. This relationship disappeared by the age of 7 years. Similarly, there was no significant difference in BMI at the age of 60 years associated with duration of breastfeeding.

Myth 17: Kids like candy better than fruits and veggies.

Contrary to popular belief, a new study released by First 5 California found that parents don’t need to sneak fruits and vegetables into their children’s meals — kids say they actually like them! Interviews with more than 100 preschoolers across California revealed that kids not only know it’s important to eat fruits and vegetables, they [...]

Myth 16: Gorging on candy rots your teeth.

Mark Helpin, pediatric dentist of Temple University, says that it is better to let your kids gorge themselves on candy periodically than to let them have a little piece here and there throughout the day.

Myth 12: Feed baby veggies before fruits.

We’ve all heard the warning, “introduce baby to vegetables before fruits or she will only want to eat sweet foods”. And well intentioned parents, who fed their baby bananas as one of her first foods, fret over visions of a future obese child who crosses her arms at the sight of a carrot and [...]

Myth 3: 2% milk is now better for toddlers.

Week of July 16, 2008 the American Academy of Pediatrics basically said, “Since kids keep being obese we will change science to make them be skinnier.” For the past 10 years the AAP has been recommending whole milk, instead of reduced fat milk, for kids between 1 and 2 years of age. [...]