The Truth About 12 Health Myths

well maybe some of this is "scientifically proven" or whatever but a lot of it is placebo -- i mean, if i think a glass of warm milk will help me fall asleep, it does. and as long as i keep believing that being startled will cute my hiccups, it will.

Some matches contain very poisonous ingredients and have been used in succesful suicide attempts( mostly in other countries where phosphorus matches may still be sold). The reason I had always understood about warning swimmers to wait 30 to 45 minutes after eating is to allow time for the stomach to empty into the duodenum and small intestine making the likelihood of regurgitating anf aspirating stomach contents into your trachea and lungs much less. Its also why general anaesthetics are considered more dangerous if the person has a full stomach.

Truth is "they" don't know what the hell they're talking about, and change year to year.

ok question...how do you drink backward??
"or drinking from a glass of water backward, "
that makes no sence to me!

One day I ate cross eyed fish with some bread crust. Then I drank a glass of warm milk and went swimming. I got the hiccups, fell asleep and drowned. Now I wish I had some Big League Chew. (Watermelon).

at age 14 i became a junior life saver with the red cross. at age 16 i became a senior life saver, and
at age 18 i became a water safety instructor. at age 21 i became a certified s.c.u.b.a. diving
instructor. what an incredible DUMB-ASS to say that if you go swimming soon after eating that you
will have less energy and be able to swim less vigorously, as if swimming less vigorously was
perfectly o.k.? from age 14 in the baby pool to age 16 on the life guard stand i made dozens upon
dozens of rescues simply because the swimmer wasn't able to swim" vigorously" in order to save
themselves. want to possibly die young from drowning? then i strongly suggest that you pig out
on your favorite food, and then waddle your fat butt over to the pool, lake or ocean and just see
what happens when you need to swim "vigorously" in order to save your IGNORANT ASS!

ASLYN -

Stand facing a sink with a glass of water in front of you. Lean forward and drink from the side of the glass where your fingertips are. Keep drinking until the entire glass (well most of the glass it is hard to bend that far forward to get it all). You will spill some of the water but thats why you are over the sink!

Haha at the bartender's trick. I bartended for years and my hiccup cured almost always worked and after reading this article I now know it was because of the sugar!
Take a glass of water and empty one sugar packet into it. Put a straw into the glass. now drink from the edge of the glass NOT THE STRAW! Stare at the straw while downing the sugary water. I always thought the hiccups were cured because the person was distracted by the straw...

I have heard from more Drs and nurses that a baby needs vitamin D if the infant is only breast fed.
This is nonsense.
The mother has converted the calcium she consumes with her supply of vitamin D to an absorbable form of calcium to make breast milk. The mother may need more vitamin D, but the child does not.
Cows milk is for calves, that stand in the sun all day. It does not break down easily in human digestion, and the calcium has not been converted for easy assimilation by humans.
Goat's and sheep's milk is easier to digest, but again the calcium has not been converted.
Breast milk is designed by nature/GOD to protect babies from any disease the mother has been exposed to, and contains every thing a baby needs nutritionally
Breast milk was given a bad rap by the ADA, to sell more milk.
When babies started getting sick from the nutritionally deficient cows milk they added sugar, more absorbable fats, and vitamins,including vitamin D, to copy breast milk.
Children quickly loose their ability to digest cows milk. Starting at age two the stomach stops producing the enzyme lactase, needed to break down the sugar lactose. Many problems with child behavior have been traced to digestion problems caused by cows milk.
A study done 35 years ago in Utah, proved that the chemicals used to clean dairy equipment was causing behavioral problems in teens.
Another study showed that infants that are fed cows milk have an 80% higher incidence of ear infection.
Several studies have linked cows milk, to increases in SIDS.
The vitamin D won't hurt your infant, since the excess will just flush out in it's urine, but why waste your money.

These are funny. The blueberry thing is nice but Apples are easier to get, there are so many varieties that children are guaranteed to like one of them and they have a pretty long shelf life.

The only cure for hiccups that I NEVER saw fail: suck on a wedge of lime.

Did you know that drinking beer makes you smart?

..... it made Budweiser!

How is standing in a hallway with wet hair the same as going outside with wet hair? Apples to Oranges.
Also, the Omega 3s in fish are supposed to help improve your memory and contribute to overall brain health in ADULTS as well.
Please be more specific about citing your sources. I'm starting to feel like most Yahoo stories are fluff.

I have found that drinking water, not backwards, but upside down works well. It easier than you think. Sip water as normal and hold in mouth....bend over and put your head down, then swallow. I get painful, strong hickups, like once a day and this seems to work. I guess it makes that flap have to work just a little harder so it moves back into place.

My biochem teacher told me this in high school and has worked for me everytime:
i dont remember exactly but it has something to do with your diaphragm. you need to change the pH of your stomach. to do this, just drink about a cup of orange juice or lick a lemon.

I've always drank a cup of orange juice and my hiccups are gone instantly.

Omega-3 options? CANOLA??????????

I DON'T THINK SO!!!!! Not only is this a radically genetically modified substance, it is made from the rape weed - a weed that is soooo noxious that cows will not eat it!

Our government, and its cozy relationship with big corporations (ie Monsanto) has woefully misled us to believe that Canola is good. WRONG AGAIN!!

Canola oil comes from the same plant that Lamp oil comes from. Don't you remember grandma telling you that it was not to drink because it would kill you?

Some of the ailments that Canola can cause: Horrific heartburn, nausea, unexplained skin rashes (sometimes blistering rashes that last for weeks).

Since these don't show up consistantly from person to person, the FDA has chosen to ignore them.

But think back to when the 'Purple pill' was introduced. It's timeline follows the introduction of Canola in the American diet. Hmmmmm. Makes you wonder....

I do not think that going out with your head wet in the cold won't make you ill. That specialist says NONSENSE.

And...yes warmmilk can contribute to relaxation and I don't care what it contains. In a few years they'll probably come up with the discovery that wow milk actually contains something that helps sleep.

fish is food until a child is 3 or 4? kids cant even have it until they are 3, because they will get sick. i know because it happened to me

The following are several health myths: it is safe for your children to consume sugar-injections like fruitl.ops; aspartame does not cause terrible side-effects; HFCSs do not addict one to the need of super-sweet or inflict damage upon the endocrine system and genes. Belly-up to the breakfast bar and ignore those screams in the back of your mind to investigate the ingreedients you consume. You BECOME what you eat. Burp!

Ok, I did an experiment. I went to sleep with wet hair last night and guess what... I woke up in the middle of the night choking on snot, coughing my butt off and with the worst sore throat ever. And I had almost gotten over my illness. So yeah, bulls--- on that one.