Top Seven Health Myths

Maybe there is no direct evidence that reading in the dark ruins your eyesight. There is however evidence that how you use your eyes during development affects their growth. For example: "Spectacle lenses alter eye growth and the refractive status of young monkeys" http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v1/n8/abs/nm0895-761.html . So it is definitely possible that repeated strain on the eyes caused by poor light could affect their development.
In addition, we need to find an explanation for the high number of people that need corrective lenses these days. I, for example, would not have survived a few thousand years ago - I can't tell a cow from a lion. In my opinion, this has to do with how we use our eyes during their development.

Of all these myths,only one seemed real to me...

The one about consuming lots of water...

Now I understand that 8 glasses a day might be too much,however drinking plenty of water is advised by many doctors...

In the 1940's 50's and 60's there was the dark age of medicine. Although a lot of things were discovered, ancient tags like these abounded. Asprin was t he cure-all for everything and going to the doctor only occurred when the heart stopped or some other drastic event. When I was young back then, I remember telling my Mother that somethint (like a sore or bite) hurts when I touch it. Her answer was always...well don't touch it. That was the order of the day.

i wish the 10% of the brain thing was true - i want to be the one who uses 10+% and have superpowers....

the normal consumption of water per day about 7 glasses of water, at least half of them water and the others between tea /coffee/juices or milk. On the other hand, people known stone formers are advised to increase their oral fluid intake to 2.5 litres per day specially in hot weather.

RE: WATER IS GOOD...Juice...with all the processed, colored, sugar packed beverages on the market these days, our immune systems are taking a beating. A healthy lifestyle doesn't require all of the products we have access to these days. Regular consumption of water instead of all of the socially acceptable, but unhealthy, options that are out there will find a person much healthier in the long run.

Re: WATER IS GOOD: Pop...with the carbonation and caffeine ...the link between osteoporosis and caffeinated sodas isn't clear, but caffeine may interfere with calcium absorption and its diuretic effect may increase mineral loss. In addition, the phosphoric acid in soda may contribute to bone loss by changing the acid balance in your blood. If you do drink caffeinated soda, it's important to get adequate calcium and vitamin D from other sources in your diet or from supplements.

Re: WATER IS GOOD: Milk really isn't the healthiest beverage...not as healthy as most of us are taught to believe. Doesn't anyone find it odd that we as a species are the only ones who drink milk after we are weaned as babies? ...and then it's cows milk...cow's that have been given antibiotics and hormones, unless you're choosing organic milk. Asthmatics especially would benefit from drinking more water and cutting out dairy all together.

I think the paragraph about water is irresponsible and misleading. There is so much that water can do for you that any other beverage cannot. WATER IS GOOD. 8 cups of water a day is a healthy lifestyle choice.

Please give me more information on the myth about drinking water because I am a firm believer in drinking half your body weight in ounces and losing weight and feeling better!
~M

Lesson to be learned: Don't trust the 'soundbite' bits of advice that doctors and grandmas give you. Their advice may work in a precise situation (that you may never experience again in your lifetime.), but it'll never work every time for everyone. QUESTION EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. Do your own research, and USE COMMON SENCE. I have no doubt that millions of people only use a small part of their brain. Our government (and the UN) wants it that way. They take money from big corporations (who have stolen it from you) and none of them give a rip about you. Don't believe that the government ever will protect you; not from disease, not from death. As long as they're paid-off by corps, individuals are disposable. A good example is what they want to do with the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NoNAIS.org can tell you all about it.

Some of these are quite commical when you're coming from a non-medical health background....Especially when they still are or have been espoused by the medical community and NOW are espoused as myths!
Dr Dave, fat2trim.com

I want to dispel another myth right now--I am a 10 year user of Methadone at extremely low doses for pain control--which I continue to have in controllable amounts in spite of the narcoltic that I have never changed the dosage amount in the ten years I have taken it.... It continues to work for me, and sometimes when I forget to take it, like I did last month (I forgot to take about a third of it)--I never got any withdrawal symptoms of any sort. I DID have increased pain without it--and ended up in my doctor's office with elevated blood pressure and pulse where he gave me injection of a non-steroidal antiflammatory that worked very well. Orally these do not control the pain, however. So you see, IF you are taking it for pain--you get neither addiction NOR habituation from it. This medication allows me to be a productive and creative memver of society. So THERE all you who do not see that pain control is an important and necessary part of the medical regime.

Point number 7 is incorrect. When I was a child in the late 60's and early 70's there were many instances in my home town of Battle Creek, Michigan, where strangers had embedded needles, razor blades and broken glass in fruit that was given away on Halloween. There were even more cases of people injecting soft candies with LSD, Heroin and Hash Hish. Kids I knew personally were victims of this insanity. That is when hospitals in Michigan began offering to x-ray Halloween candy. They still discover dozens of instances every year in Michigan.

Point number 7 is incorrect. when I was a child in the late 60's and early 70's there were many instances in my home town of Battle Creek, Michigan, where strangers had embedded needles, razor blades and broken glass in fruit that was passed on Halloween. There were even more cases of people injecting soft candies with LSD, Heroin and Hash Hish. Kids I knew personally were victims of this insanity. That is when hospitals in Michigan began offering to x-ray Halloween candy. They still discover dozens of instances every year in Michigan.

Water usage: While we talk about excess drinking, the actual recent (15 years ago) study relies on output rather than intake. This study (sorry can't remember the details of who/where) states that if you have clear urine at least once a day you are good irrespective of your intake,

Using 10% of our brains: This is more of a laziness aspect than physical usage. It's like your computer CPU which barely clocks 100%. Watching TV most of the time is equal to using 1% of your brain. And we all know how much we do that. Even while at work we refuse to use our brain and rely on tools around us, calculators, computers, you name it. Yes we use less of our brains because we are just lazy to exercise it.

Cell phone: Like most studies the crucial details of what the 1.2% is has been carefully omitted.