Nutrition and health: dummy beliefs

Statements exist about the health or on the nutrition that you/they are inculcated you from small to one that you/they don't really have any logical reason. You are about myths broadcasted from the antiquity that are sometimes almost impossible to differ of the truth, but that they are erroneous.

To "use glasses weakens the eyes"
It can be that the view of a person that use glasses is worsening, but that is an age question, not of use of glasses! The experts say that if one doesn't go very closely when reading a book or to make a work that require to look from a short distance, the eye you try to adapt to that necessity. But for it, the view should carry out a very big effort. The glasses achieve the same thing, without necessity of forcing the eye. If one prescribes you glasses to the patient to correct your vision, this finds you easier to see. But then, if the patient tries to see without them, you perceive that effort as if you were a great load and you accuse from this to the glasses. But these are not the true cause.

To "shave is made that the body hair grows more thick, darker and quicker"
The color and the thickness of the body hair are a hereditary question. The body hair is only compound for dead cells and let us make that we make, you won't react in another way. Then, what do you feed this myth? When a girl shaves the legs for the first time, the body hair is uneven and with the very thin tips. When you grow again, after first o'clock shaved, it can seem denser and more abundant because you have been cut in form couple but, in fact, you grow in the same way.

"The coffee cushions the effects of the excess of alcohol"
If we give you brown to a drunkard, what do we achieve? That you remain very awake, but the intoxication is only treated allowing some hours to happen. The body metabolizes a vessel of alcoholic drink in one hour. The caffeine doesn't help in anything to reestablish the mental control and normal physique, because the level of alcohol in the blood continues being the same one. The intoxication symptoms persist until the body metabolizes the alcohol.

"If I eat vegetables in one hour I will already be hungry
That makes that one feels satisfied they are not the calories, but the quantity of food in the stomach. The vegetable origin or animal of a meal doesn't have anything to do with the fact of being satiated. Then, from where does that belief come? You happen that if one ingests a meal with high content of fat, the sensation of hard satiety more, because the slow fat more in being digested and you remain for more time in the stomach.

"If you starts a white hair, three grow more"
If you take off a white hair, you exit a white hair again. Each hair is born of a single follicle piloso I insert in the skin, and those that he/she are made to one of them don't have any effect on the other ones. Anything of those that make, as for starting hair refers, you will change the quantity of white hair that you/they grow again. On the other hand, the appearance of white hair has to do with a genetic load and in them there is a narrow relationship with the inheritance.

"The form of the reflective potbelly of a pregnant one the baby's" sex
Not no connection exists between the form of the potbelly and the baby's sex. Then, why do some mothers have the most circular and other, but pointed potbelly? In the primerizas, the potbelly spreads to be more circular than that of the other mothers, because the fetus takes more in being located in the pelvis.