8 Nutrition Myths Busted

If you've been starving yourself on celery and drinking so much water that you're in the bathroom every hour on the hour, you need to stop!

It feels like we're constantly being slapped in the face with diet info and it's almost impossible to know what's true and what's not. But the people at Eat This, Not That have broken down eight of the biggest nutrition myths:

• Celery has negative calories. Sure, a stalk of celery is very low-cal, but your body spends only about a half-calorie digesting it.

• Nutrition labels are always factual. Nope, not so much. The FDA allows for a 20 percent margin of error on calories and nutrients.

• Organic produce is more nutritious. Everyone is on a huge organic kick these days, and while keeping pesticides out of your system definitely has some benefit, the food isn't any more nutritious than regular produce.

• You should drink 64 ounces of water a day. This one is tricky. Your TOTAL water intake (which includes the water in the food you're eating) should be about 64 ounces a day.

• Vitamin C can prevent a cold. It might help a little with symptoms, but there's no scientific proof that it helps you ward off illness.

• Eating soy causes breast cancer. A chemical in soybeans is linked to weak estrogenic effects, but not enough to make a difference or to cause breast cancer.

• Oysters are an aphrodisiac. Sorry to disappoint, but this one is just the stuff of legend.

• The microwave destroys nutrients in veggies. Actually, the shorter cooking time and lack of boiling water help keep vitamins and minerals intact.