DELUSIONS ABOUT YOUR BODY
Added on: 17th Jun 2016
SUGAR MAKES KIDS HYPERACTIVE
It doesn’t. Studies have shown that when a child is given a
placebo (what the parents think is sugar water), then the
parents will consistently rank the child as being more hyper.
Maybe your kids just get excited about candy, but there is no
chemical effect of sugar on hyperactivity.
IF YOU SWIM LESS THAN 30 MINUTES AFTER
EATING YOU'LL GET A CRAMP
If your mom every told you not to swim after eating because
you’ll get a cramp and drown…well, she’s wrong. You might
get a cramp, but it will have nothing to do with when you ate.
DON’T HAVE MILK WHEN YOU'RE SICK
BECAUSE IT MAKES MORE MUCUS
Milk can thicken mucus, but not make more of it. At any rate,
this won’t set you back much on the healing process.
YOU SHOULD NEVER WAKE UP A SLEEPWALKER
According to the myth, if you wake a sleepwalker it can give
them a heart attack or send them into shock. While that won’t
happen, it is probably best just to guide them back to bed
because if you wake them up they’ll probably be really,
really groggy.
YOU BECOME RESISTANT TO ANTIBIOTICS
It is not you that becomes resistant to antibiotics, it is the bacteria.
HAIR GROWS BACK THICKER
It doesn’t. When it grows naturally, it grows tapered. When you
shave it, it has a blunt tip. This blunt tip may make your hair
appear to be thicker but it’s not. The thickness of your hair is
determined beneath the skin by the root, over which your
razor has no say.
DROWNING PEOPLE FLAIL
Hollywood is wrong on this one. As every lifeguard will tell you,
drowning people are hard to spot because they don’t make
much of a racket. Drownings are usually extremely silent with
not much going on at the surface of the water.
VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM
Although the study that started this rumour has been debunked
as a fraud, everybody still seems to believe. No, vaccines do not
cause autism any more than driving cars cause diarrhoea.
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