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You may not be able to live for long without drinking water, but you can do just fine without all the myths about drinking water. Here are four, well and truly busted.
Water is life, and perhaps as a result, we suffer from lots of myths about drinking water. That's especially true today, when drinking the proper water is often implicitly associated with beauty, health, and sheer coolness. So, are these associations accurate in any way, shape, or form? Um, do chickens have lips?
It's easy to see that myths about vision are far too common, but what to do, what to do? Check out this article, and we'll tell you the truth about a few.
Why are myths about vision so common? Fear, mostly. Despite the fact that all of us are born into and occupy a magnificent organic machine our entire lives, despite hundreds of years of medical knowledge, many of us don't have a clue how our senses work -- and this leads to a fear that they'll stop working.
For most of us, eyesight is our most important natural sense. Nobody raised in a world of sight really wants to have their vision forever shuttered, because it's so limiting if you're not born to it. This leads to a lot of myths that we shouldn't have to worry about. Here are four.
Suffering from too many myths about sleep? This article ought to open your eyes a little.
The average person spends about a third of their life in the Land of Nod, so myths about sleep -- and the things we do therein -- aren't all that uncommon. Sleep may indeed "knit up the ravel'd sleeve of care", per Shakespeare, but the myths about it are all over the map. Let's take a look at a few, shall we?
Persistent myths about deafness often cloud our thinking about what it means to be unable to hear. In this article, we'll take a look at four such misconceptions.
Myths about deafness can be difficult ones to fight. Fortunately, we've got a rich, ever-evolving body of research that makes it relatively simple to research the true story, one largely developed by the hearing impaired themselves.
With the advent of the Internet, deaf people have been able, more than ever, to disseminate the details of their lifestyles and experiences, and are often quite happy to do so. Those are the major tools we've used here to reveal the truth about common misconceptions regarding the severely hearing impaired.
As with many health problems, the concept of breast cancer is unusually rife with misconceptions. We've already introduced you to eight breast cancer myths in previous articles; here are four more.
Why are breast cancer myths so common? Probably because the disease is a scary one, and strikes one of the more defining features of femininity. In a two-part article we previously posted here, we covered eight common myths about breast cancer -- but those barely scratched the surface of this particular lore.
In the following article, we revisit the subject of breast cancer, and address four more common misconceptions. Some are completely wrong, being based on incorrect or insufficient information, while others are cautionary tales gone out of control.
The world's favorite comfort food is a magnet for myths and mythconceptions, so we thought we'd clear a few up. And so we present, for your delectation: four common myths about chocolate.
It's not all that surprising that there are so many myths about chocolate, given the importance that many of us place upon it in our lives. After all, if it was just something boring instead of the richest, tastiest thing on Earth, who would care if there were myths surrounding it?
But since it's a rare individual who doesn't at least like chocolate, we thought you might want to know the truth about some of those old wives' tales you've been handed over the years. Here are four myths you can sink your teeth into.
Don't bet your health on old wives tales and similar medical myths. We covered four in the last installment; here's the truth about four more.
In our last exciting episode, we gently demolished four medical myths concerning reproduction, water intake, chocolate consumption, and knuckle cracking. If you're hungry to learn more, feast your eyes on Part II of this article, where we discuss the truth behind four more myths.
When you get right down to it, your health's your most important possession -- so don't endanger it by falling for these medical myths.
The human body and its functioning can be a mysterious thing, even after several hundred years of diligent study -- so it's no wonder that medical myths are common in our society. Heck, there are a few even doctors fall for, so the rest of us can be excused for being uncertain about some things.
In this two-part article, we'll take a look at eight common myths about medicine and human health, and give you the straight skinny on each one. Let's start with the ever-popular subject of reproduction, shall we?
Even if you don't like spiders and snakes, you'll probably be happy to learn that these snake myths are just so much hooey.
Snake myths are many and varied. Why? Well, if there's one type of beast almost all of us have an aversion to, it's snakes. Oh, sure, you can learn to get over your fear of the slithery critters. But if you're like most people, your initial reaction to the sight of a wild one is to find yourself several dozen feet away. Instantly.
But let's be fair: it's not altogether reasonable to malign these quiet creatures, most of whom are not venomous, and all of whom serve completely respectable purposes in the natural order of things. In this article, we'll do our part to calm the anti-snake storm with the anodyne of truth.
With all the self-styled mental health experts out there, it can be hard to distinguish the truth from the myths about stress. In this article, we'll take on four common misconceptions.
Are you stressing out over which myths about stress are actually true? Well, you're in luck, because your friendly neighborhood Mythbusters have decided to take the subject in hand. In this article, we'll reveal the truth about four stressful myths that tend to keep people up at night.
