The British
Medical Journal has rounded up many of the commonly held beliefs that many
doctors think are true. Despite the fact that these myths have either been
proven false or they lack supporting evidence, they looked at them closely. The
myths include: We use only 10% of our brains, eating turkey makes you sleepy,
reading in dim light will damage your eyesight, that we need to drink eight
glasses of water each day, shaving causes hair to grow back faster, darker and
coarser, and hair and fingernails continue to grow after we die. All of them
false! It’s pretty interesting that these myths are out there and we fall for
them. The researchers who combined the literature, and they looked at all sorts
of things for proof of the myths, found their doctor colleagues also found it
hard to believe many of these myths are not true.
