Granted, like most other things, the fitness industry has been inundated with people seeking to get “views” on social media. So being provocative is perhaps the main concern.
But there are plenty of fitness influencers who blame sugar for all that is dastardly and wrong. For them, this includes natural sources, like the fructose in fruit.
Me? I think fruit is nature’s candy, and the fiber and vitamins make it very worthwhile.
As for vegetables? The theory seems to be that they have natural defenses that make them toxic to humans. Personally, I just don’t want to live in a world where veggies aren’t good for me.
Exactly right. In the list that @Czarcasm wrote, all of them are (or can be) included when I get my oil changed, except for spark plug replacement, tire rotation, and brake check.
And tire rotation and brake check were NEVER included in the tune-up of yesteryear.
Also, I just did some quick Googling, and spark plugs can now last up to 100,000 miles. This was unheard of not that long ago.
Urine has little actual use, once you urinate. Do not urinate on a jellyfish sting- it makes things worse.
Do not drink urine. Altho you own urine if you are really well hydrated might be okay- “clear & copious” by the time you need to drink it, it will be dark and concentrated of things your body wants to get rid off.
In the past urine had some uses- cleaning agent, etc, and even mouthwash, we have better uses.
Okay, obsolete advice: I’m pretty sure you are NOT supposed to use a lit cigarette to remove ticks.
Also, putting knives in the dishwasher will not cause the blades to lose their temper. It may dull them or cause rust, but the steel is just fine, thanks.
In general, there’s a lot of old medical advice around that we now know was always a bad idea. Butter on a burn is another one. The best thing you can do for a burn is to cool it off right away to prevent further damage, and then to dress it in a sterile bandage. Butter hinders both of those.
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”.
There was a jokey version where it was “breakfast is one of the three most important meals of the day” and I think that has in fact become true. Breakfast is fine, it is likely still recommended, though plenty of us don’t (which is not that big of a deal), but it’s no more important than any other meal.
I remember carbohydrates being recommended as the core of a healthy diet - literally, ‘people should eat more pasta’. Now carbs are the devil and protein is our saviour, but I feel like It can’t be very long before folks will start scaremongering about how too much protein is a really bad thing.
Oh they already are.
Of course a diet heavy on plant based things is best.
I have to have a certain amount of protein per day. There’s no way I could eat enough veggies to sustain that.
But I always hear about the meat I eat. It’s a tried and true delicate balance I need to maintain. I’m not always successful but I strive everyday. I get no cheat days. No treats for doing well.
It’s day in and day out.
I also have this nagging suspicion that there will suddenly arise some obvious and serious reason why ‘being in ketosis’ was a terrible thing to seek to achieve.
Anyway… one thing that still pops up from time to time is ‘turning things off at the wall’ - in the UK, it’s common for mains wall outlets to be switched - mostly this is a convenience feature, not explicitly for safety (the design of the actual plugs and sockets takes care of that), but the requirement to be able to switch things off at the wall has diminished over time. I have a couple of use cases:
My food processor has an LED on it that is absurdly bright, so I like to turn the thing off at the wall when not in use (but leave it plugged in for convenience).
If something gets stuck in the toaster, I can turn it off at the wall before I poke anything inside (I guess that is kind of a safety feature after all).
Edit: I just thought of another use case - I have a bunch of lights in my studio that are all fed by a gang plug, and so I can switch them all on at once from one switch on the socket.
But I don’t always bother to turn off the switch when unplugging something (it isn’t unsafe to do this), and I do encounter people worrying about that, on some sort of safety grounds. Sometimes it almost sounds like they believe the electricity is going to spill out of the empty socket if the switch isn’t turned off.
And I do very occasionally hear older people talking about how you should always turn things off at the wall if there is a thunderstorm expected, so that if lightning strikes, the appliances won’t be damaged - honestly, I think the contact separation in the switch is not going to present a huge obstacle to a bolt of lightning that has managed to jump all the way down from the sky.
Never give your credit card number to a website that doesn’t have a clear legitimate physical address and telephone number displayed on it.
Possibly obsolete is the wrong word for this one, I think the online experience would be better if this was still the norm, but Amazon et al have convinced us otherwise.
All those things go to reputation. The actual advice is “Don’t give your CC to a disreputable website. One indicia (among many) is they have a real address and phone number on the site.”
By now, e.g. Amazon’s reputation far exceeds that of some minor plumbing parts e-commerce website despite the owner’s earnest picture, shop address, & phone number prominent on his site.
I would not say it’s any stronger than the wall framing, but it’s designed to carry the load that the wall carries. A non bearing wall just has the top sill plate and the top plates, no header.
Its a better place to stand than the middle of a room.
