Theo
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The Freakonomics blog has posted a year-end clearance of medical myths:
I believed some of these myths to be true. Shows ya just how much bullshit is floating around out there, some of which even doctors believe.
Myths, Part One:
Myths, Part Two
Hospitals totally seem to believe in that last one.
Do any of these surprise you? Do you have more medical myths to add to the list?
I can't wait to forward to my brother the myth about sugar causing hyperactivity in kids. He's always claiming I'll cause my niece and nephew to be hyper when I give them sugary treats.
The research shows:
Sorry, moms: it turns out that reading in low light won’t make you go blind; going hatless in the winter won’t make you freeze to death; and you could eat poinsettias all day and not be poisoned.
All this holiday medical myth-busting and more is courtesy of our somber friends at the British Medical Journal....
I believed some of these myths to be true. Shows ya just how much bullshit is floating around out there, some of which even doctors believe.
Myths, Part One:
Sugar causes hyperactivity in children
Suicides increase over the holidays
Poinsettia toxicity
Excess heat loss in the hatless
Nocturnal feasting makes you fat
You can cure a hangover
Myths, Part Two
People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
We use only 10% of our brains
Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in hospitals
Hospitals totally seem to believe in that last one.
Do any of these surprise you? Do you have more medical myths to add to the list?
I can't wait to forward to my brother the myth about sugar causing hyperactivity in kids. He's always claiming I'll cause my niece and nephew to be hyper when I give them sugary treats.
The research shows:
The differences in the children’s behaviour were all in the parents’ minds.
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