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All we have heard from our parents or grandparents sayings, who then accompanied us for a long time in life, and, perhaps, we continue to believe in them, and so far! You might remember this: "Do not sit close to the TV, go blind," "eat carrots, will have a good view," not " crunching fingers - cones grow "... And we tried to follow these tips to avoid all sorts of horrors future. However, some of them unfounded. About them and tell in our post.
1. Chocolate pimples
No product does not cause acne (may be an allergic rash), although still need moderation. Search with any food - it's not good for the body.
2. Eat carrots - will be good eyesight
You can turn yellow from the carrots, but still can not get rid of glasses. And do not even prevent the loss of vision.
3. Will crackle fingers - earn arthritis
One addictive personality specially conducted an experiment and snapping the fingers of one hand over the years. The result: both his hands were completely identical, arthritis, he has not earned.
4. Eating spicy food can cause ulcer
Spicy foods can become a strong irritant, if you already have an ulcer, but does not cause it.
5. If you touch a toad, warts will
Not. Warts are due to the presence of the virus in the body of a certain person. Toads have nothing to do with it.
6. You drink coffee - will cease to grow
Children do not drink coffee, but to grow it has nothing to do.
7. Do not turn your eyes to the nose - stay cross-eyed
Variations: If the eyes squinted, and hit on the head, you will remain cross-eyed. It is unclear why a child we all loved to mow the eye to the nose. But the truth is that it does not cause strabismus.
8. With a cold you need to eat well and at a temperature there is not worth
Wrong neither one nor the other. You can not deprive the body of nutrients, if you feel hungry, should eat even if temperature. But the cost and not to push a food just because you have a cold and need to eat.
9. You can not swim after eating
Moot. After a hearty meal, any sports activity is contraindicated, it is a bad effect on the digestion. But here's the seizures associated with what you have just eaten, it will not be exactly. So after not too heavy meal it is possible to swim.
We learned in this post sayings that have heard for a long time? And your children say something like that?