Many of us will have grown up listening to truisms such as “feed a fever starve a cold”; eating carrots improves your vision; cracking your knuckles causes arthritis; sitting too close to the TV will damage your eyesight....
These are just a few pearls of wisdom that have been handed down through generations by well-intended elders seeking to share their insights for a happy, healthy life. The trouble is, well-intended nuggets of advice aren’t necessarily true, as is the case for all of the above examples.
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