1. Midnight Snacks
Myth: Eating at night will make you fat. Fact: This is a complete myth. It doesn’t matter what time of day you eat, as long as you eat only the total calories that you burn each day, you will not gain weight.
2. Turkey sleep
Myth: Turkey meat contains tryptophan therefore it makes you sleepy. Fact: Turkey is served at very large meals often eaten during the day rather than the evening. The heavy meal slows blood flow which can cause drowsiness, and the timing can have a huge psychological impact: in other words, you are imagining it.
3. Back Pain
Myth: Back pain needs to be treated with bed rest. Fact: Thirty-nine independent studies show that bed rest is more harmful than good in a broad range of illnesses.
4. Cancer treatment
Myth: Cancer treatment is painful and pointless – furthermore, it is incurable. Fact: Various drugs exist to treat different types of cancer, and many of them are extremely effective and well worth trying if you do get the disease.
5. Baby teeth
Myth: Teething causes a fever. Fact: Scientific studies show no correlation at all between fever and teething.
6. Arthritic Knuckles
Myth: Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis in later life. Fact: Arthritis is caused by various reasons but knuckle cracking isn’t one of them.
7. Gummed up
Myth: Chewing gum takes seven years to pass through your system. Fact: it is true that gum is not digestible in the human body but if you swallow some chewing gum the only thing that will happen is that it will simply pass whole through your digestive system and then pop out the other end.
8. Water consumption
Myth: We should drink at least 8 glasses of water a day. Fact: In 1945 a government agency found out that we need to drink 8 glasses of fluid a day but somehow over time ‘fluid’ turned to ‘water’.
9. Body heat
Myth: We lose most of our body heath through our head. Fact: Completely naked you lose approximately 10% of your body heat through the head. The other 90% is lost via other body parts.
10. Sugar hyperactivity
Myth: Sugar makes kids hyperactive. Fact: It is all in the parent’s mind. Many tests and studies show that kids who just ate sugar are feeling and acting in the same way they did before, perhaps only a bit happier.
