30 Myths That Were Widely Circulated Because Companies Were Good At Lying About Their Products

Moderation is best with either one. Diabetes , heart disease, high cholesterol……none of these are good.

it's all marketing - keep think of launching an expensive fat free food **sUgAr** and then a sugar free one **LaRd** Surprised no one has tried selling grass fed beef as concentrated vegtables .

Healthy fats, such as olive oil and butter, are actually good for you and moderate amounts. Fat is known to be protective against Alzheimer’s disease, for example.

The whole fat is bad thing was started by the sugar industry.

More sugar/carbs isn't bad either. It's over eating in general that's bad for you.

I've come to realize that there are a cast array of gems, crystals, fossils, etc... that I prefer over diamonds. I have a small collection of meteorite jewelry as well and find so much joy in wearing these small pieces of outer space. Diamonds are typically pretty boring and put in pretty uncreative jewelry. They have potential but jewelry designers just play it too safe with them.

The one question I can't get my head around is what happens to all the old diamonds. There isn't that much second hand jewellery...

I chose a beautiful 3 stone engagement ring made from cubic zirconia. It has a 14k gold setting. No one could tell it wasn't the real deal. Why waste thousands of dollars that you could use for something more useful?

And De Beers controls the market. They have mountains of diamonds stored. If they put it on the market, it becomes just cheap glass.

Flawless natural without inclusions are rare, but De Beers does control the market.

But were there ever any actual lies involved? I remember this fad from when I was a child, and there was no deception involved that I can recall. People bought into it, not because they were stupid, but because they thought it was fun, funny, cool. Just the same as when anyone buys any nonessential item.

😂😂now I feel sooooooo old I had a family of those when I was like 5 lol n I grew up on a farm ! I’m now 60 this is well funny 😂

how about the part of opening the box carefully and reading the instructions first... because, ya know... you might spook'em!

I kept a shrimp as a pet once, didn't occur to me that it had no head, or soul...I was like 4 lol so same as a pet rock

Almost EVERY deodorant is designed to be applied SPARINGLY. A light jet to give you a pleasant smell (depending on your definition of pleasant). It's for YOUR benefit, not other people's. If you can smell someone's deodorant at more than about two feet away, they used too much.

Oh i remember those days. My brother used to drown himself in that. 😩 overpowering. Now imagine all these guys in a group passing by you. 😷😷

I’ve known many people who cannot stand the smell or are allergic to synthetic perfume and cologne altogether.

Decades ago I went to a zoo with free runnning monkeys wearing axe and the monkeys started procreating right on my lap. That's all I say. Didn't experience anything similar myself, though.

The whole deodorant 'women should smell like flowers and men should smell like animal magnetism' (or some other s**t) thing is weird.

We will be landscaping our garden and i plan on putting clover on our front and 2 side yards. Long live the bees!

The whole concept of the "lawn" is itself problematic. It makes sense in the UK where it rains 160 days/year. But the traditional aristocratic lawn was brought to the United States, which sees far less rain. These then need to be constantly watered or they turn brown, and they then purge the suburbs of beneficial native plants to make way for grass. Better to let your yard be full of wildflowers. They are already acclimated to the lower rain levels, they feed native pollinators, and they are far prettier than just grass (which you then have to water and mow).

The blossoms are so pretty and my bunnies love them

I have both imported and native clover in my 'lawn'. Alongside native geraniums and my current favourite, dichondra. I hate grass, especially the imported kikuyu and cooch grasses as ground cover and hopefully will get rid of them all eventually.

I once counted over 20 different leaves in the lawn while lying in my hammock. I tend to say turf instead of lawn. Lawn seems too singular for my yard.