--- title: Food myths and fads — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Food myths and fads», a lesson of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a banana takes far longer than ten minutes to digest, and scientists think most exercis --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / Food myths and fads # Food myths and fads Lesson 55 of the medicine course of Mova's primary school: 12 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/1/) — Tom gets cramp in the 80th minute and yells for a banana, but a banana takes far longer than ten minutes to digest, and scientists think most exercise cramp comes from tired muscles, not low potassium. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/3/) — Not every food tip is a fad: in the dreich, dark Scottish winter (dreich means grey and drizzly) Kirsty's mum gives her a vitamin D drop, because UK advice says everyone should think about it in autumn and winter, so the trick is to follow real advice, not fads either way. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/4/) — Bananas contain potassium, but most exercise cramp is thought to come from tired muscles, and a banana can't be digested fast enough to help mid-match; gentle stretching and rest help. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/5/) — Starchy carbs like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes are the body's main fuel for running about, and wholegrain ones are best. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/6/) — Children get enough protein from normal meals; protein shakes are made for adults and are not needed by children. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/8/) — Extra vitamin pills don't make a healthy child faster, and too many vitamin gummies can be harmful, so keep them out of reach and follow the label or a doctor. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/9/) — UK advice is that everyone should think about taking 10 micrograms of vitamin D a day in autumn and winter, when there isn't enough sunshine for the skin to make it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/10/) — Carb-loading is for long races of many hours, mostly for adults; before a short kids' race a normal meal is enough. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/11/) — A marathon is about 42 km, so a 2 km school cross-country is about 21 times shorter. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/12/) — The body doesn't turn food into fat because of the time on the clock, so a proper tea after evening training is right. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/15/) — Online food posts are often adverts or opinions; a sensible check is to ask a parent, a school nurse or look at NHS advice. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/55-food-myths-and-fads/16/) — «Bussin'» is young American slang for really good, and «hen» is a Scottish way to call a girl or woman, like «love». - ← previous: [A balanced plate for a kid who plays sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/54-a-balanced-plate-for-a-kid-who-plays-sport/) - next →: [Sleep for growing and for playing well](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/) - ↑ back to [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/)