Myths in Nutrition
Myths in Nutrition

Author(s): Michal Svoboda
Subject(s): Sociology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: myths; nutrition; food;
Summary/Abstract: A false irrational judgement based self-delusion created on subjective feelings of an individual or by a mechanical accepting of baseless information is considered as a myth. Selected myths refer to the following groups of food: fat, milk and dairy products, meat and meat products, fruit and vegetables, cereal. The main objective of the research was to answer the following question: Do the respondents understand the selected statements about nutrition as true or not? The research method was a questionnaire of its own design. Among the statements that respondents believe to be true include: milk fills up with mucus, milk from a shop is thinned by water, milk “directly from a cow” is healthier, present-day yoghurt is not real yoghurt, processed cheese contains cheap margarine, meat is full of antibiotics and growth hormones, raw chicken meat contains less fat than pork, spinach contains a lot more iron than other green vegetable, brad made of leavening (without yeast and other substances) is valuable nowadays. The results of the questionnaire survey are in line with people’s long-term views on food and nutrition.

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