Despite our best efforts to debunk health myths, they continue to be told.
- An apple a day keeps the doctor away
- Feed a cold starve a fever
- You can catch a cold from being too cold.
- You will get blind if you read in low light
- You lose 75% of your heat through the head
- Eating organic foods during pregnancy prevents fetal problems
- To get rid of hickups have someone startle you
- Warm milk will make you go asleep
- In order to tan, you must burn first
- Muscle turns to fat if you don’t use it
- Alcohol kills brain cells
- People are fat because they don’t exercise
- Birth control/HPV vaccine/etc leads to more sex
- Women need annual pap smears starting from age 18
