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Misconception Junction Presents.. 10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled MisconceptionJunction.com Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising Muscles and fats are made up of very different types of cells that have completely different functions. Skeletal muscles get larger when a person exercises primarily from hypertrophy; in other words, the person isn't gaining more muscle cells (which would be hyperplasia), rather, the ones they have are just getting bigger. After a person quits exercising, the muscle cells don't go away or morph into fat cells; they simply shrink. Muscle cells take quite a bit of energy to maintain (approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound per day). People who exercise regularly tend to accustom themselves to eating quite a bit more food than people who maintain a relatively healthy body weight without exercising. Once they stop working out though, they instantly lose the need for the calories used during their workouts, which is often quite significant. So bottom line is, people who exercise regularly & suddenly stop, tend to gain fat quickly because they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for their decreased caloric needs, not because muscle cells are turning into fat cells! The red juice in raw meat is blood The red "juice" in meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don't see blood in raw "white meat"; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you see in red meat? Well, red meats A such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Ostriches hide their heads in the sand When an Ostrich feels genuinely threatened, it will actually take off running and not hide it's head in the sand, as is popularly believed. Considering it is the fastest animal on two legs, it can pretty much out run most other animals.The Ostrich also has extremely good eye sight & hearing. Because of this, they are generally able to perceive predators before the predator sees them. So what they will do when they observe a predator is lie down on the ground, put their body as close to the ground as possible and wait. The myth that they stick their heads in the sand primarily comes from this first line of defense where they lie down and it appears from a distance as if its head disappears in the sand, even though it is really just lying down to see if the predator will pass by so that it won't have to expend the energy of trying to outrun it. Shaving affects hair growth Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, stronger, faster or any other "er". Numerous studies going all the way back to the 1920's show that shaving has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your hair growth rate. Hair growth is controlled by hair follicles found just underneath the skin. These follicles are not in any way affected by shaving. Only the outer part of your hair that is already dead is getting cut. The follicles underneath that determine thickness/color/growth rate remain completely unaffected by your shaving or not shaving. Sushi is raw fish Sushi is not raw fish. It's sashimi, which is just sliced raw fish, sometimes simply dipped in sauces and sometimes served with sushi. Sushi is any food dish consisting of vinegared rice, usually served with some other toppings, but not always. It happens to often be served with various types of sea food, either cooked or raw, and perhaps even a mix of the two. Sushi can be served with just about any toppings or none at all. In fact, sushi is more often than not served in the west with fully cooked sea food such as cooked imitation crab (known as California roll) & smoked salmon (known as Seattle roll). The Sun is yellow The Sun isn't yellow, it's white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. The same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. The Earth's atmosphere scatters light in the blue and violet wavelength range, so the remaining wavelengths of light appear yellow. This same effect is why the sky will also often appear yellow when the Sun is disappearing over the horizon, as well as why the sky/Sun can appear more red at times during this phase of the day. You use only 10% of your Brain Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. Amazing amounts of research have gone into mapping the brain, in terms of figuring out the function of various parts of the brain, and, to date, no area of the brain has been found that doesn't have some function, even though that function may not be yet wholly understood. Brain scans, courtesy of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) technologies, show us that, even while we are sleeping, every part of the brain shows at least a small amount of activity and most areas of the brain are active at any given moment, assuming the person being scanned hasn't ever suffered some form of brain damage. If 90% of the brain wasn't used for anything, then damage to that 90% of the brain shouldn't affect a person at all. In reality though, damage to just about any part of the brain, even tiny amounts of damage, tend to have profound effects on the person who suffers that damage, proving that we use all of the brain and not just 10% Twinkies have a long shelf-life The popular notion that Twinkies "last forever" or for some ridiculously long amount of time is false; they actually only have a shelf life of about 25 days. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs; in 25 days or so they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread. The direction water spins down your drain, depends on the hemisphere you live in What hemisphere you are in does not affect the way water spins down your drain or toilet. The Coriolis Effect is basically an apparent force relative to the Earth's surface that causes objects to appear as if they are moving in somewhat of a curved path, when actually they are moving straight and it is the Earth turning that makes it look like they are curving. Things such as hurricanes and other large cyclonic systems are very much affected by the Coriolis Effect in terms of which way they spin. However, a hurricane might literally be 500 miles wide and last for days; your sink and toilet are very small in comparison and the time the Coriolis Effect has to influence the draining water is very small as well. In this case, the Coriolis Effect has about the same affect on the swirling water in your toilet as a butterfly's flapping wings have on a Tornado. 10 The tongue has taste zones Contrary to popular belief, the tongue doesn't actually have zones specializing in specific tastes. It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled "Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes". The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig's research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects & tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. In reality, most everyone can detect the five basic tastes equally everywhere on the upper surface of the tongue, with extremely BITTER SOUR SOUR ALTY SWEET SALTY slight variations that are more or less random from person to person. As such, Scientists have since admitted that Hanig's paper would be better served as toilet tissue, instead of reading material, as the results have no basis in reality. Designed by Noreen (Buzzfactory.net) © MisconceptionJunction.com Misconception Junction Presents.. 10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled MisconceptionJunction.com Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising Muscles and fats are made up of very different types of cells that have completely different functions. Skeletal muscles get larger when a person exercises primarily from hypertrophy; in other words, the person isn't gaining more muscle cells (which would be hyperplasia), rather, the ones they have are just getting bigger. After a person quits exercising, the muscle cells don't go away or morph into fat cells; they simply shrink. Muscle cells take quite a bit of energy to maintain (approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound per day). People who exercise regularly tend to accustom themselves to eating quite a bit more food than people who maintain a relatively healthy body weight without exercising. Once they stop working out though, they instantly lose the need for the calories used during their workouts, which is often quite significant. So bottom line is, people who exercise regularly & suddenly stop, tend to gain fat quickly because they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for their decreased caloric needs, not because muscle cells are turning into fat cells! The red juice in raw meat is blood The red "juice" in meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don't see blood in raw "white meat"; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you see in red meat? Well, red meats A such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Ostriches hide their heads in the sand When an Ostrich feels genuinely threatened, it will actually take off running and not hide it's head in the sand, as is popularly believed. Considering it is the fastest animal on two legs, it can pretty much out run most other animals.The Ostrich also has extremely good eye sight & hearing. Because of this, they are generally able to perceive predators before the predator sees them. So what they will do when they observe a predator is lie down on the ground, put their body as close to the ground as possible and wait. The myth that they stick their heads in the sand primarily comes from this first line of defense where they lie down and it appears from a distance as if its head disappears in the sand, even though it is really just lying down to see if the predator will pass by so that it won't have to expend the energy of trying to outrun it. Shaving affects hair growth Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, stronger, faster or any other "er". Numerous studies going all the way back to the 1920's show that shaving has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your hair growth rate. Hair growth is controlled by hair follicles found just underneath the skin. These follicles are not in any way affected by shaving. Only the outer part of your hair that is already dead is getting cut. The follicles underneath that determine thickness/color/growth rate remain completely unaffected by your shaving or not shaving. Sushi is raw fish Sushi is not raw fish. It's sashimi, which is just sliced raw fish, sometimes simply dipped in sauces and sometimes served with sushi. Sushi is any food dish consisting of vinegared rice, usually served with some other toppings, but not always. It happens to often be served with various types of sea food, either cooked or raw, and perhaps even a mix of the two. Sushi can be served with just about any toppings or none at all. In fact, sushi is more often than not served in the west with fully cooked sea food such as cooked imitation crab (known as California roll) & smoked salmon (known as Seattle roll). The Sun is yellow The Sun isn't yellow, it's white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. The same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. The Earth's atmosphere scatters light in the blue and violet wavelength range, so the remaining wavelengths of light appear yellow. This same effect is why the sky will also often appear yellow when the Sun is disappearing over the horizon, as well as why the sky/Sun can appear more red at times during this phase of the day. You use only 10% of your Brain Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. Amazing amounts of research have gone into mapping the brain, in terms of figuring out the function of various parts of the brain, and, to date, no area of the brain has been found that doesn't have some function, even though that function may not be yet wholly understood. Brain scans, courtesy of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) technologies, show us that, even while we are sleeping, every part of the brain shows at least a small amount of activity and most areas of the brain are active at any given moment, assuming the person being scanned hasn't ever suffered some form of brain damage. If 90% of the brain wasn't used for anything, then damage to that 90% of the brain shouldn't affect a person at all. In reality though, damage to just about any part of the brain, even tiny amounts of damage, tend to have profound effects on the person who suffers that damage, proving that we use all of the brain and not just 10% 8 Twinkies have a long shelf-life The popular notion that Twinkies "last forever" or for some ridiculously long amount of time is false; they actually only have a shelf life of about 25 days. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs; in 25 days or so they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread. The direction water spins down your drain, depends on the hemisphere you live in What hemisphere you are in does not affect the way water spins down your drain or toilet. The Coriolis Effect is basically an apparent force relative to the Earth's surface that causes objects to appear as if they are moving in somewhat of a curved path, when actually they are moving straight and it is the Earth turning that makes it look like they are curving. Things such as hurricanes and other large cyclonic systems are very much affected by the Coriolis Effect in terms of which way they spin. However, a hurricane might literally be 500 miles wide and last for days; your sink and toilet are very small in comparison and the time the Coriolis Effect has to influence the draining water is very small as well. In this case, the Coriolis Effect has about the same affect on the swirling water in your toilet as a butterfly's flapping wings have on a Tornado. 10 The tongue has taste zones Contrary to popular belief, the tongue doesn't actually have zones specializing in specific tastes. It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled "Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes". The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig's research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects & tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. In reality, most everyone can detect the five basic tastes equally everywhere on the upper surface of the tongue, with extremely BITTER SOUR SOUR ALTY SWEET SALTY slight variations that are more or less random from person to person. As such, Scientists have since admitted that Hanig's paper would be better served as toilet tissue, instead of reading material, as the results have no basis in reality. Designed by Noreen (Buzzfactory.net) © MisconceptionJunction.com Misconception Junction Presents.. 10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled MisconceptionJunction.com Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising Muscles and fats are made up of very different types of cells that have completely different functions. Skeletal muscles get larger when a person exercises primarily from hypertrophy; in other words, the person isn't gaining more muscle cells (which would be hyperplasia), rather, the ones they have are just getting bigger. After a person quits exercising, the muscle cells don't go away or morph into fat cells; they simply shrink. Muscle cells take quite a bit of energy to maintain (approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound per day). People who exercise regularly tend to accustom themselves to eating quite a bit more food than people who maintain a relatively healthy body weight without exercising. Once they stop working out though, they instantly lose the need for the calories used during their workouts, which is often quite significant. So bottom line is, people who exercise regularly & suddenly stop, tend to gain fat quickly because they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for their decreased caloric needs, not because muscle cells are turning into fat cells! The red juice in raw meat is blood The red "juice" in meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don't see blood in raw "white meat"; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you see in red meat? Well, red meats A such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Ostriches hide their heads in the sand When an Ostrich feels genuinely threatened, it will actually take off running and not hide it's head in the sand, as is popularly believed. Considering it is the fastest animal on two legs, it can pretty much out run most other animals.The Ostrich also has extremely good eye sight & hearing. Because of this, they are generally able to perceive predators before the predator sees them. So what they will do when they observe a predator is lie down on the ground, put their body as close to the ground as possible and wait. The myth that they stick their heads in the sand primarily comes from this first line of defense where they lie down and it appears from a distance as if its head disappears in the sand, even though it is really just lying down to see if the predator will pass by so that it won't have to expend the energy of trying to outrun it. Shaving affects hair growth Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, stronger, faster or any other "er". Numerous studies going all the way back to the 1920's show that shaving has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your hair growth rate. Hair growth is controlled by hair follicles found just underneath the skin. These follicles are not in any way affected by shaving. Only the outer part of your hair that is already dead is getting cut. The follicles underneath that determine thickness/color/growth rate remain completely unaffected by your shaving or not shaving. Sushi is raw fish Sushi is not raw fish. It's sashimi, which is just sliced raw fish, sometimes simply dipped in sauces and sometimes served with sushi. Sushi is any food dish consisting of vinegared rice, usually served with some other toppings, but not always. It happens to often be served with various types of sea food, either cooked or raw, and perhaps even a mix of the two. Sushi can be served with just about any toppings or none at all. In fact, sushi is more often than not served in the west with fully cooked sea food such as cooked imitation crab (known as California roll) & smoked salmon (known as Seattle roll). The Sun is yellow The Sun isn't yellow, it's white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. The same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. The Earth's atmosphere scatters light in the blue and violet wavelength range, so the remaining wavelengths of light appear yellow. This same effect is why the sky will also often appear yellow when the Sun is disappearing over the horizon, as well as why the sky/Sun can appear more red at times during this phase of the day. You use only 10% of your Brain Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. Amazing amounts of research have gone into mapping the brain, in terms of figuring out the function of various parts of the brain, and, to date, no area of the brain has been found that doesn't have some function, even though that function may not be yet wholly understood. Brain scans, courtesy of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) technologies, show us that, even while we are sleeping, every part of the brain shows at least a small amount of activity and most areas of the brain are active at any given moment, assuming the person being scanned hasn't ever suffered some form of brain damage. If 90% of the brain wasn't used for anything, then damage to that 90% of the brain shouldn't affect a person at all. In reality though, damage to just about any part of the brain, even tiny amounts of damage, tend to have profound effects on the person who suffers that damage, proving that we use all of the brain and not just 10% 8 Twinkies have a long shelf-life The popular notion that Twinkies "last forever" or for some ridiculously long amount of time is false; they actually only have a shelf life of about 25 days. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs; in 25 days or so they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread. The direction water spins down your drain, depends on the hemisphere you live in What hemisphere you are in does not affect the way water spins down your drain or toilet. The Coriolis Effect is basically an apparent force relative to the Earth's surface that causes objects to appear as if they are moving in somewhat of a curved path, when actually they are moving straight and it is the Earth turning that makes it look like they are curving. Things such as hurricanes and other large cyclonic systems are very much affected by the Coriolis Effect in terms of which way they spin. However, a hurricane might literally be 500 miles wide and last for days; your sink and toilet are very small in comparison and the time the Coriolis Effect has to influence the draining water is very small as well. In this case, the Coriolis Effect has about the same affect on the swirling water in your toilet as a butterfly's flapping wings have on a Tornado. 10 The tongue has taste zones Contrary to popular belief, the tongue doesn't actually have zones specializing in specific tastes. It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled "Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes". The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig's research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects & tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. In reality, most everyone can detect the five basic tastes equally everywhere on the upper surface of the tongue, with extremely BITTER SOUR SOUR ALTY SWEET SALTY slight variations that are more or less random from person to person. As such, Scientists have since admitted that Hanig's paper would be better served as toilet tissue, instead of reading material, as the results have no basis in reality. Designed by Noreen (Buzzfactory.net) © MisconceptionJunction.com Misconception Junction Presents.. 10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled MisconceptionJunction.com Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising Muscles and fats are made up of very different types of cells that have completely different functions. Skeletal muscles get larger when a person exercises primarily from hypertrophy; in other words, the person isn't gaining more muscle cells (which would be hyperplasia), rather, the ones they have are just getting bigger. After a person quits exercising, the muscle cells don't go away or morph into fat cells; they simply shrink. Muscle cells take quite a bit of energy to maintain (approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound per day). People who exercise regularly tend to accustom themselves to eating quite a bit more food than people who maintain a relatively healthy body weight without exercising. Once they stop working out though, they instantly lose the need for the calories used during their workouts, which is often quite significant. So bottom line is, people who exercise regularly & suddenly stop, tend to gain fat quickly because they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for their decreased caloric needs, not because muscle cells are turning into fat cells! The red juice in raw meat is blood The red "juice" in meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don't see blood in raw "white meat"; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you see in red meat? Well, red meats A such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Ostriches hide their heads in the sand When an Ostrich feels genuinely threatened, it will actually take off running and not hide it's head in the sand, as is popularly believed. Considering it is the fastest animal on two legs, it can pretty much out run most other animals.The Ostrich also has extremely good eye sight & hearing. Because of this, they are generally able to perceive predators before the predator sees them. So what they will do when they observe a predator is lie down on the ground, put their body as close to the ground as possible and wait. The myth that they stick their heads in the sand primarily comes from this first line of defense where they lie down and it appears from a distance as if its head disappears in the sand, even though it is really just lying down to see if the predator will pass by so that it won't have to expend the energy of trying to outrun it. Shaving affects hair growth Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, stronger, faster or any other "er". Numerous studies going all the way back to the 1920's show that shaving has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your hair growth rate. Hair growth is controlled by hair follicles found just underneath the skin. These follicles are not in any way affected by shaving. Only the outer part of your hair that is already dead is getting cut. The follicles underneath that determine thickness/color/growth rate remain completely unaffected by your shaving or not shaving. Sushi is raw fish Sushi is not raw fish. It's sashimi, which is just sliced raw fish, sometimes simply dipped in sauces and sometimes served with sushi. Sushi is any food dish consisting of vinegared rice, usually served with some other toppings, but not always. It happens to often be served with various types of sea food, either cooked or raw, and perhaps even a mix of the two. Sushi can be served with just about any toppings or none at all. In fact, sushi is more often than not served in the west with fully cooked sea food such as cooked imitation crab (known as California roll) & smoked salmon (known as Seattle roll). The Sun is yellow The Sun isn't yellow, it's white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. The same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. The Earth's atmosphere scatters light in the blue and violet wavelength range, so the remaining wavelengths of light appear yellow. This same effect is why the sky will also often appear yellow when the Sun is disappearing over the horizon, as well as why the sky/Sun can appear more red at times during this phase of the day. You use only 10% of your Brain Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. Amazing amounts of research have gone into mapping the brain, in terms of figuring out the function of various parts of the brain, and, to date, no area of the brain has been found that doesn't have some function, even though that function may not be yet wholly understood. Brain scans, courtesy of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) technologies, show us that, even while we are sleeping, every part of the brain shows at least a small amount of activity and most areas of the brain are active at any given moment, assuming the person being scanned hasn't ever suffered some form of brain damage. If 90% of the brain wasn't used for anything, then damage to that 90% of the brain shouldn't affect a person at all. In reality though, damage to just about any part of the brain, even tiny amounts of damage, tend to have profound effects on the person who suffers that damage, proving that we use all of the brain and not just 10% 8 Twinkies have a long shelf-life The popular notion that Twinkies "last forever" or for some ridiculously long amount of time is false; they actually only have a shelf life of about 25 days. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs; in 25 days or so they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread. The direction water spins down your drain, depends on the hemisphere you live in What hemisphere you are in does not affect the way water spins down your drain or toilet. The Coriolis Effect is basically an apparent force relative to the Earth's surface that causes objects to appear as if they are moving in somewhat of a curved path, when actually they are moving straight and it is the Earth turning that makes it look like they are curving. Things such as hurricanes and other large cyclonic systems are very much affected by the Coriolis Effect in terms of which way they spin. However, a hurricane might literally be 500 miles wide and last for days; your sink and toilet are very small in comparison and the time the Coriolis Effect has to influence the draining water is very small as well. In this case, the Coriolis Effect has about the same affect on the swirling water in your toilet as a butterfly's flapping wings have on a Tornado. 10 The tongue has taste zones Contrary to popular belief, the tongue doesn't actually have zones specializing in specific tastes. It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled "Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes". The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig's research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects & tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. In reality, most everyone can detect the five basic tastes equally everywhere on the upper surface of the tongue, with extremely BITTER SOUR SOUR ALTY SWEET SALTY slight variations that are more or less random from person to person. As such, Scientists have since admitted that Hanig's paper would be better served as toilet tissue, instead of reading material, as the results have no basis in reality. Designed by Noreen (Buzzfactory.net) © MisconceptionJunction.com Misconception Junction Presents.. 10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled MisconceptionJunction.com Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising Muscles and fats are made up of very different types of cells that have completely different functions. Skeletal muscles get larger when a person exercises primarily from hypertrophy; in other words, the person isn't gaining more muscle cells (which would be hyperplasia), rather, the ones they have are just getting bigger. After a person quits exercising, the muscle cells don't go away or morph into fat cells; they simply shrink. Muscle cells take quite a bit of energy to maintain (approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound per day). People who exercise regularly tend to accustom themselves to eating quite a bit more food than people who maintain a relatively healthy body weight without exercising. Once they stop working out though, they instantly lose the need for the calories used during their workouts, which is often quite significant. So bottom line is, people who exercise regularly & suddenly stop, tend to gain fat quickly because they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for their decreased caloric needs, not because muscle cells are turning into fat cells! The red juice in raw meat is blood The red "juice" in meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don't see blood in raw "white meat"; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you see in red meat? Well, red meats A such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Ostriches hide their heads in the sand When an Ostrich feels genuinely threatened, it will actually take off running and not hide it's head in the sand, as is popularly believed. Considering it is the fastest animal on two legs, it can pretty much out run most other animals.The Ostrich also has extremely good eye sight & hearing. Because of this, they are generally able to perceive predators before the predator sees them. So what they will do when they observe a predator is lie down on the ground, put their body as close to the ground as possible and wait. The myth that they stick their heads in the sand primarily comes from this first line of defense where they lie down and it appears from a distance as if its head disappears in the sand, even though it is really just lying down to see if the predator will pass by so that it won't have to expend the energy of trying to outrun it. Shaving affects hair growth Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, stronger, faster or any other "er". Numerous studies going all the way back to the 1920's show that shaving has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your hair growth rate. Hair growth is controlled by hair follicles found just underneath the skin. These follicles are not in any way affected by shaving. Only the outer part of your hair that is already dead is getting cut. The follicles underneath that determine thickness/color/growth rate remain completely unaffected by your shaving or not shaving. Sushi is raw fish Sushi is not raw fish. It's sashimi, which is just sliced raw fish, sometimes simply dipped in sauces and sometimes served with sushi. Sushi is any food dish consisting of vinegared rice, usually served with some other toppings, but not always. It happens to often be served with various types of sea food, either cooked or raw, and perhaps even a mix of the two. Sushi can be served with just about any toppings or none at all. In fact, sushi is more often than not served in the west with fully cooked sea food such as cooked imitation crab (known as California roll) & smoked salmon (known as Seattle roll). The Sun is yellow The Sun isn't yellow, it's white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. The same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. The Earth's atmosphere scatters light in the blue and violet wavelength range, so the remaining wavelengths of light appear yellow. This same effect is why the sky will also often appear yellow when the Sun is disappearing over the horizon, as well as why the sky/Sun can appear more red at times during this phase of the day. You use only 10% of your Brain Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. Amazing amounts of research have gone into mapping the brain, in terms of figuring out the function of various parts of the brain, and, to date, no area of the brain has been found that doesn't have some function, even though that function may not be yet wholly understood. Brain scans, courtesy of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) technologies, show us that, even while we are sleeping, every part of the brain shows at least a small amount of activity and most areas of the brain are active at any given moment, assuming the person being scanned hasn't ever suffered some form of brain damage. If 90% of the brain wasn't used for anything, then damage to that 90% of the brain shouldn't affect a person at all. In reality though, damage to just about any part of the brain, even tiny amounts of damage, tend to have profound effects on the person who suffers that damage, proving that we use all of the brain and not just 10% 8 Twinkies have a long shelf-life The popular notion that Twinkies "last forever" or for some ridiculously long amount of time is false; they actually only have a shelf life of about 25 days. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs; in 25 days or so they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread. The direction water spins down your drain, depends on the hemisphere you live in What hemisphere you are in does not affect the way water spins down your drain or toilet. The Coriolis Effect is basically an apparent force relative to the Earth's surface that causes objects to appear as if they are moving in somewhat of a curved path, when actually they are moving straight and it is the Earth turning that makes it look like they are curving. Things such as hurricanes and other large cyclonic systems are very much affected by the Coriolis Effect in terms of which way they spin. However, a hurricane might literally be 500 miles wide and last for days; your sink and toilet are very small in comparison and the time the Coriolis Effect has to influence the draining water is very small as well. In this case, the Coriolis Effect has about the same affect on the swirling water in your toilet as a butterfly's flapping wings have on a Tornado. 10 The tongue has taste zones Contrary to popular belief, the tongue doesn't actually have zones specializing in specific tastes. It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled "Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes". The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig's research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects & tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. In reality, most everyone can detect the five basic tastes equally everywhere on the upper surface of the tongue, with extremely BITTER SOUR SOUR ALTY SWEET SALTY slight variations that are more or less random from person to person. As such, Scientists have since admitted that Hanig's paper would be better served as toilet tissue, instead of reading material, as the results have no basis in reality. Designed by Noreen (Buzzfactory.net) © MisconceptionJunction.com Misconception Junction Presents.. 10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled MisconceptionJunction.com Muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising Muscles and fats are made up of very different types of cells that have completely different functions. Skeletal muscles get larger when a person exercises primarily from hypertrophy; in other words, the person isn't gaining more muscle cells (which would be hyperplasia), rather, the ones they have are just getting bigger. After a person quits exercising, the muscle cells don't go away or morph into fat cells; they simply shrink. Muscle cells take quite a bit of energy to maintain (approximately 13 Calories per kilogram per day or around 6 Calories per pound per day). People who exercise regularly tend to accustom themselves to eating quite a bit more food than people who maintain a relatively healthy body weight without exercising. Once they stop working out though, they instantly lose the need for the calories used during their workouts, which is often quite significant. So bottom line is, people who exercise regularly & suddenly stop, tend to gain fat quickly because they don't adjust their food intake to compensate for their decreased caloric needs, not because muscle cells are turning into fat cells! The red juice in raw meat is blood The red "juice" in meat is not blood. Nearly all blood is removed from meat during slaughter, which is also why you don't see blood in raw "white meat"; only an extremely small amount of blood remains within the muscle tissue when you get it from the store. So what is that red liquid you see in red meat? Well, red meats A such as beef, are composed of quite a bit of water. This water, mixed with a protein called myoglobin, ends up comprising most of that red liquid. Ostriches hide their heads in the sand When an Ostrich feels genuinely threatened, it will actually take off running and not hide it's head in the sand, as is popularly believed. Considering it is the fastest animal on two legs, it can pretty much out run most other animals.The Ostrich also has extremely good eye sight & hearing. Because of this, they are generally able to perceive predators before the predator sees them. So what they will do when they observe a predator is lie down on the ground, put their body as close to the ground as possible and wait. The myth that they stick their heads in the sand primarily comes from this first line of defense where they lie down and it appears from a distance as if its head disappears in the sand, even though it is really just lying down to see if the predator will pass by so that it won't have to expend the energy of trying to outrun it. Shaving affects hair growth Shaving does not make your hair grow back thicker, stronger, faster or any other "er". Numerous studies going all the way back to the 1920's show that shaving has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your hair growth rate. Hair growth is controlled by hair follicles found just underneath the skin. These follicles are not in any way affected by shaving. Only the outer part of your hair that is already dead is getting cut. The follicles underneath that determine thickness/color/growth rate remain completely unaffected by your shaving or not shaving. Sushi is raw fish Sushi is not raw fish. It's sashimi, which is just sliced raw fish, sometimes simply dipped in sauces and sometimes served with sushi. Sushi is any food dish consisting of vinegared rice, usually served with some other toppings, but not always. It happens to often be served with various types of sea food, either cooked or raw, and perhaps even a mix of the two. Sushi can be served with just about any toppings or none at all. In fact, sushi is more often than not served in the west with fully cooked sea food such as cooked imitation crab (known as California roll) & smoked salmon (known as Seattle roll). The Sun is yellow The Sun isn't yellow, it's white. The reason the Sun looks yellow to us on Earth is that our atmosphere scatters light from the Sun; so the apparent color of the sun changes. The same scattering effect is why the sky looks blue in the day time instead of black, like at night. The Earth's atmosphere scatters light in the blue and violet wavelength range, so the remaining wavelengths of light appear yellow. This same effect is why the sky will also often appear yellow when the Sun is disappearing over the horizon, as well as why the sky/Sun can appear more red at times during this phase of the day. You use only 10% of your Brain Over the years, the myth that you only use about 10% of your brain has been widely spread with the source of this myth often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein. Amazing amounts of research have gone into mapping the brain, in terms of figuring out the function of various parts of the brain, and, to date, no area of the brain has been found that doesn't have some function, even though that function may not be yet wholly understood. Brain scans, courtesy of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) technologies, show us that, even while we are sleeping, every part of the brain shows at least a small amount of activity and most areas of the brain are active at any given moment, assuming the person being scanned hasn't ever suffered some form of brain damage. If 90% of the brain wasn't used for anything, then damage to that 90% of the brain shouldn't affect a person at all. In reality though, damage to just about any part of the brain, even tiny amounts of damage, tend to have profound effects on the person who suffers that damage, proving that we use all of the brain and not just 10% 8 Twinkies have a long shelf-life The popular notion that Twinkies "last forever" or for some ridiculously long amount of time is false; they actually only have a shelf life of about 25 days. Twinkies are in fact baked and their primary ingredients are flour, sugar, and eggs; in 25 days or so they get stale and go bad in a similar fashion to any other bread. The direction water spins down your drain, depends on the hemisphere you live in What hemisphere you are in does not affect the way water spins down your drain or toilet. The Coriolis Effect is basically an apparent force relative to the Earth's surface that causes objects to appear as if they are moving in somewhat of a curved path, when actually they are moving straight and it is the Earth turning that makes it look like they are curving. Things such as hurricanes and other large cyclonic systems are very much affected by the Coriolis Effect in terms of which way they spin. However, a hurricane might literally be 500 miles wide and last for days; your sink and toilet are very small in comparison and the time the Coriolis Effect has to influence the draining water is very small as well. In this case, the Coriolis Effect has about the same affect on the swirling water in your toilet as a butterfly's flapping wings have on a Tornado. 10 The tongue has taste zones Contrary to popular belief, the tongue doesn't actually have zones specializing in specific tastes. It turns out this myth got its start when a certain Harvard Psychologist Edwin G. Boring mistranslated a German paper written in 1901 titled "Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes". The tongue paper, written by the German Scientist D.P. Hanig, outlined Hanig's research on the four known basic tastes. He got together a group of subjects & tested the main tastes on each of them on various parts of their tongues until he figured he had a good map put together on where they tasted various tastes the most. In reality, most everyone can detect the five basic tastes equally everywhere on the upper surface of the tongue, with extremely BITTER SOUR SOUR ALTY SWEET SALTY slight variations that are more or less random from person to person. As such, Scientists have since admitted that Hanig's paper would be better served as toilet tissue, instead of reading material, as the results have no basis in reality. Designed by Noreen (Buzzfactory.net) © MisconceptionJunction.com

10 Common Misconceptions Dispelled

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Here are 10 common misconceptions by people like muscle turns to fat if you stop exercising, red juice in raw meat is blood, ostrichs hide their heads in the sand and many more.

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