Untrue Myths

1. Which of these myths did you use to believe or do you still believe now?
First of all I’m quite impressed by the carrot myth, I’ve always believed that as well as the intake of an orange juice in the first minutes because if not, it’ll lose all its vitamins.

2. How do you think these myths started?
Before reading the article I was thinking about the most common sources of myths, I guess they would come either from marketing purposes or to give an understandable lesson on not what to do.

3. Can you think of an everyday myth that turns out to be real?
I’m not sure about what I’m about to say but it is said that if you take a cold bath after having a very hot day you’re not going to mitigate the effects of a possible heat stroke, but you do quite the opposite. By submitting your body to a huge temperature changes, you could feel dizzy.

4. Do you know if any of these 13 myths can more likely be real?
Actually there’s a relationship between staring long periods of time at a screen and having eyesight issues. Not only you would feel your eyes irritated, but in the long term, your diopters increase. This is specially noticeable with myopia.

5. Think of another example of an everyday myth that is not really true.
Theres a myth related to gray hair, if you remove a gray hair it’ll turn gray other seven. It sounds as ridiculous as it is, yeah, not five or six or fifteen, no, seven hairs. I’m curious about how the number 7 is that common in these type of myths and superstitions, I guess it’d be an explanation of this relationship. I also heard that if you drink Baileys(a sort of creamy liquor) and then you drink coke, the whole will turn into a stone in your stomach.