Perpetuating
certain myths makes big money for beauty manufacturers, and as soon as you stop believing the hype you start saving a bundle.
Not exact matches
The idea of a paperless office seemed like a joke, and there was even a book written about it, «The
Myth of the Paperless Office,» which theorized that
certain human characteristics
made going paperless an impossible feat.
It seems to follow that, just as a dominant philosophical imaginary governs the quality of understandings of the world, so the
myths that inform a self - creating social imaginary must delimit what that society can as well as should
make of itself, while leaving
certain possibilities open.
In the case of Harpur's theory (that Jesus didn't exist, and that deliberate efforts have been
made to choose to
make the
myths interpreted literally), his evidence is not as convincing or as extensive as the evidence for Jesus having been a real person, on whom a
certain religious and political systems have been formed and which have embellished, perverted, and developed
certain aspects, with intentions both deliberate and unintentional.
We had a great discussion in one of the sessions around the
myths around
certain food and
making better choices.
He busts typical bodybuilding
myths of eating 6 times a day and about
certain foods
making you «fat».
PS — If you like the
myth debunking in this post, be sure to check out my latest book, Real Food for Pregnancy, which lays out the evidence — 930 citations and counting — on the benefits of real food, why
certain foods are essential (and others are detrimental), and countless lifestyle tweaks you can
make to have a smooth, healthy pregnancy.
The way you explain
certain nutrition concepts like the order of eating / combining foods and bad fats helps
make things clear about what is really good for you versus
myths you hear in the industry.
Like
myths, I think they are often the subtlest and most accurate tools we have to illuminate
certain truths and help us
make sense of the world.
Bast and Spencer are motivated to debunk the 97 percent «
myth» because they have a vested interest, via their affiliation with Heartland, in getting the public to believe that the scientists are a lot less
certain about the reality of man -
made climate change than they actually are.
That you must
make your resume one page and omit a job objective are two potentially harmful resume - writing
myths, and there are many others that can work against your best interests if you believe that
certain resume - writing «laws» are inviolable.