Know how you sometimes snatch dropped food off the floor and joke that it’s still good because of the “five-second rule?” Hate to break it to you, but that’s just one of the many old roommates’ tales out there, according to American Dietetic Association spokesperson Melinda Johnson, MS, RDN. It really takes less than a second to contaminate food with whatever it touches on the ground — yes, even if you blow off the dirt.
In the interest of your health and shirt size, we asked nutrition experts around the country to help debunk some other myths and morsels of misinformation that are often ingested to the detriment of weight-loss efforts.
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