once upon a time indians relished their food irrespective of which study had said what about an ingredients health benefits or harmful effects fast forward to india today and most of us are still eating everything we shouldnt but weve picked up some common food myths along the way these food myths help form future opinions not only is this harmful to us as it influences daily nutrition but it is also harmful to the world at large as it becomes part of food lore today were helping you bust five of these common food mythshigh protein food is harmful for the kidneysfact it is true that proteins are processed by the kidney and common sense suggests that too much of something will damage any device however this is not possible two separate studies one conducted by the international journal of sport nutrition and exercise metabolism and another published in the annals of internal medicine revealed that even though athletes consumed large amounts of protein the kidney functioned as normalegg yolks are bad for the heartfact we crack an egg to bake or to make our healthy breakfast but a lot of indians are questioning the high cholesterol level present in the yolk this is clearly a cause of concern for heart patients or is it there is no connection between heart disease and regular egg consumption according to hearthealthy guideline you need to limit your cholesterol level within 300 milligrams an average egg contains 185 milligrams cholesterol so thats still under the limit but you need to balance it if you are consuming chicken dairy and meat productsfasting is the only way to detoxify the bodyfact it is popular perception that your body needs to be detoxified regularly from impurities the most common method used for detoxifying the body is fasting but is it the right way to go scientifically your body has certain organs like the colon liver lungs kidney and skin to flush out the toxins from your body you may not be aware but your body is fasting every night hence your body regularly detoxifies from all the toxins so there is no need to fast to detoxifybrown shell eggs are more nutritious than white shell eggsfact they say do not judge a book by its cover and the same applies for eggs no matter the colour whether brown white or gold the nutritional value is the same the eggs may come from different breeds of chicken therefore the colour or the size may differ but the nutritional value of egg remains similar with a marginal miniscule at best differencefresh vegetables are better than frozen vegetablesfact every recipe and every cooking show will ask you to use fresh ingredients this is a bouncer according to studies by ukbased institute of food research the insitute says frozen foods are as nutritious if not more than fresh produce sounds crazy the argument is that food loses an average of 45 percent nutrition value by the time it reaches