The British Medical Journal likes to have a jolly good time with their Christmas edition and they like to expose medical myths. It is their gift to help you understand the ways of your body.
For Boxing Day, I thought I would edu-tain (yep educate + entertain = edutain) with a quiz. You need to decide if the following statements are myths or facts.
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Oops! I made a boo boo on #2....I didn't read DOES NOT increase
1some of these that their saying are false are true for sure!
like the hair growth one, when you shave your hair DOES grow faster and thicker.
and reading in dim light makes your eye sight weaker. it does!
2hair does NOT grow back thicker and faster when you shave. People think it does because it's often time coarser feeling due to having a blunt end from being shaved.
3I got them all right! WooHoo
5/5. That was easy.
4100% pure LOVE! =D 5/5 baby!
54/5 - I believed the tryptophan hype. Oh well.
6I believed the hair and nails one...4/5!
7Maybe your hair doesn't grow back thicker after you shave it, but it grows back darker or something that makes it more noticeable. I made the mistake of shaving some hair on one of my toes and it is definitely darker than the other foot. (strange, I know. I'm still not sure why I did that!)
8rivrchild, I'm not sure about it growing back darker, but one possible xplanation is that the hair on your toes is lightened from it's natural state, just like arms hair or the hair on your head lightens, so when you shaved it, the new hair coming out hasnt been exposed to the sun to be lightened.
9Who knows.Maybe you should just shave the other toe too
I got 5/5. My husband took the quiz with me and he believed the dim light one and the tryptophan one.
10Almost all of the most commonly believed medical myths are either not true, or have not been conclusively proven!
11Not even one =/
125/5
13live and learn
14Wooo, 5/5...this was easy! Common sense it seems to me...
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I know useless knowledge!!!
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