• Latest
  • Trending
REVEALED! 10 health ‘facts’ that are actually false

REVEALED! 10 health ‘facts’ that are actually false

6 years ago
Soldiers kill motorcyclist in Ibadan

Soldiers kill motorcyclist in Ibadan

4 hours ago
‘It’s false’- Ex-Oyo Speaker faults  Fashola’s account of Ladoja’s impeachment

‘It’s false’- Ex-Oyo Speaker faults Fashola’s account of Ladoja’s impeachment

4 hours ago
BREAKING: I’ll continue to campaign for Tinubu- Buhari

BREAKING: I’ll continue to campaign for Tinubu- Buhari

8 hours ago
Naira scarcity: Dispense new notes or I’ll revoke your land, Borno governor warns banks

Naira scarcity: Dispense new notes or I’ll revoke your land, Borno governor warns banks

10 hours ago
Finally, Emefiele appears before House of Reps over new naira notes

Naira scarcity: CBN begs Nigerians to endure challenges

14 hours ago
Osun 2022: Stop attacking Makinde, he has no anointed candidate –Rep

Naira/fuel scarcity: Makinde deploys free buses in Oyo

14 hours ago
Naira scarcity: Emefiele acting cabals’ script- Folarin

Naira scarcity: Emefiele acting cabals’ script- Folarin

1 day ago
Man slumps, dies inside bank

Man slumps, dies inside bank

1 day ago
NFIU: No going back on cash withdrawal limit

Makinde, Adelabu, Kola-Daisi suspend campaigns over fuel, naira scarcity

1 day ago
Appointments:  Clarke, Fasoranti, Adebanjo,13 others sue Buhari, demand N50bn

Presidency: Buhari’ll take major decision on naira redesign within seven days

1 day ago
BREAKING: Protests rock Ibadan over fuel, naira notes scarcity

BREAKING: Protests rock Ibadan over fuel, naira notes scarcity

1 day ago
CBN deadline: First Bank opens Saturday, Sunday to receive old naira notes

BREAKING: Allow Nigerians spend old, new naira notes- APC governors tell Buhari

1 day ago
Temi Otedola celebrates sixth anniversary of meeting fiancé, Mr Eazi

Temi Otedola celebrates sixth anniversary of meeting fiancé, Mr Eazi

1 day ago
Buhari meets APC governors in Abuja

JUST IN: Buhari in closed door meeting with APC governors

1 day ago
Suspended  Catholic priest wins Benue APC governorship rerun

Again, Catholic priest wins Benue APC rerun guber primary

2 days ago
El-Rufai: How Buni’s lawyers, fifth columnists  colluded to stop APC convention

El-Rufai: We’ll defeat Aso Rock cabals inciting Nigerians against APC

2 days ago
‘You’ve directed LG chairmen, aides, others to work for Tinubu in Rivers’- Atiku’s camp accuses Wike of anti-party activity

‘You’ve directed LG chairmen, aides, others to work for Tinubu in Rivers’- Atiku’s camp accuses Wike of anti-party activity

2 days ago
El-Rufai: How Buni’s lawyers, fifth columnists  colluded to stop APC convention

VIDEO: How Tinubu emerged APC presidential candidate- El-Rufai

2 days ago
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Newspeakonline
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Technology
  • World
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Europe
  • Opinion
  • Interview
  • Newspeak ExclusivesNew
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Technology
  • World
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
    • Europe
  • Opinion
  • Interview
  • Newspeak ExclusivesNew
No Result
View All Result
Newspeak
UBA
Home Politics

REVEALED! 10 health ‘facts’ that are actually false

Patrick Akpu by Patrick Akpu
August 29, 2016
in Politics
Reading Time: 3 mins read
239 18
0
REVEALED! 10 health ‘facts’ that are actually false
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on WhatsAppShare on Telegram

Below are some health facts about health that have been proven to be false.

RelatedPosts

No cause for alarm over Akeredolu’s health – Ondo govt

What Seyi Tinubu told me about his father’s health-Keyamo

DAWN moves to boost healthcare delivery in South West 

1. Chocolate gives you bad skin

Starting with this good news for the sweet toothed, the idea that chocolate causes acne or spots is not true at all. The Journal of the American Medical Association wrote about this as long ago as 1969, yet the myth persists. The experiment involved feeding people chocolate for one month and then counting their zits. There were no differences in skin quality between those who ate chocolate and those who had been fed candy bars without chocolate. Though the latter were probably less content.

2. Natural sugar is better for you than processed sugar

Honey in a ‘health bar’ (another con) is no better than corn syrup sugar. The actual sugar, whether natural or synthetic has the same effect on your body. The difference is a candy bar filled with corn syrup usually contains more synthetic sugar than a nutri-granola-crunch thing. The health difference is determined by amount not by the derivation of the ingredient.

3. Sugar is as addictive as heroine

The ‘can of cola is the same as a drug high’ diagram circulates the internet every six months or so, and we all shudder and decide we’ll never touch the sweet black stuff again. The latest full year statistics (2014) showed Coca Cola’s turnover was $45,998 million (USD), so at least one of us has caved. The addictive property is usually attributed to the sugar in drinks, but psychiatrist Hisham Ziaudden says this is difficult to prove. Although the 2009 book ‘Fat Chance’ argued that sugar stimulates the brain’s reward system in the same manner as alcohol, heroine and cocaine. Ziaudden counters that even with brain scans, scientists don’t yet know what addiction looks like in the brain, so saying these two look similar does not equate to proving sugar has addictive properties.

4. Bread and food will ‘soak up’ the alcohol

‘I’ll just eat two slices of plain bread and that way I’ll be remain sober, normal and less fighty after 12 shots of Sambuca’, we have all told ourselves. While eating before drinking will delayalcohol from entering your bloodstream, it won’t stop it completely. It might help your hangover, but not the level of drunkenness.

5. Your hair and nails keep growing after death

When you die, as well as there being nothing, all your tissue shrinks and shrivels up as you disintegrate in your wooden box buried beneath the earth. This shrinkage gives the illusion of your nails and hair growing, but they’re actually staying the same. You can avoid this horrifying image (but why bother, you’re dead) by being cremated.

6. Chewing gum stays in your system for years

Actually think about this and then wonder why you ever believed it. Do you eat other chewy foods? Do they stay in your system? What opportunity would the gum have to become tangled around your rib cage? Gum only ever ‘gets stuck’ if it’s been eaten with other things which you shouldn’t have been eating (think Lego blocks), and the gum sticks to them.

7. Your blood turns blue when it’s out of oxygen

For anyone who remembers being told this fib during a science lesson, you may want to begin doubting everything you have ever been taught. Your blood is never blue, (unless you are an evil Illuminati reptile person), it is only red or darker red when it’s deoxygenated. The reason your veins appear blue is because you’re looking at them through layers and layers of tissue. Mind blown.

8. Chocolate is an aphrodisiac

Nope. A study by the Mayo Clinic found that neither chocolate nor any other food has been found to stimulate sexual desire. It’s all down to you. This is just a trick of advertising that began in the Victorian era, perhaps to do with the fact cocoa was imported from the exotic reaches of the Empire, and being treated to it made us feel more amorous.

9. The ‘five second rule’

Not really a health ‘fact’, but the ‘5 second rule’ is definitely not hygienic. Bacteria can, and will, contaminate your food within milliseconds. The dirtiness of the surface your food falls onto determines how dirty the food becomes, time has very little to do with it.

10. Eating before swimming gives you cramps

Except nobody has ever drowned because they’d eaten within an hour of dipping their toes into the water. Obviously a swim with a tummy full of grub might be a bit uncomfortable, but the idea that digestion draws blood away from your muscles, causing them to cramp, is untrue.

Source: INDY100 from Independent.co.uk

Related

What’s your Reaction?
Like
Like
0
Dislike
Dislike
0
Laugh
Laugh
0
Angry
Angry
0
Sad
Sad
0
Accurate
Accurate
0
0 Shares
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Linkedin Messenger
×

Share this post!

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Linkedin Messenger Telegram Tumblr
Tags: Health

Recent Posts

BREAKING: I’ll continue to campaign for Tinubu- Buhari

BREAKING: I’ll continue to campaign for Tinubu- Buhari

February 4, 2023
NFIU: No going back on cash withdrawal limit

Makinde, Adelabu, Kola-Daisi suspend campaigns over fuel, naira scarcity

February 3, 2023
Suspended  Catholic priest wins Benue APC governorship rerun

Again, Catholic priest wins Benue APC rerun guber primary

February 3, 2023
‘You’ve directed LG chairmen, aides, others to work for Tinubu in Rivers’- Atiku’s camp accuses Wike of anti-party activity

‘You’ve directed LG chairmen, aides, others to work for Tinubu in Rivers’- Atiku’s camp accuses Wike of anti-party activity

February 2, 2023
El-Rufai: How Buni’s lawyers, fifth columnists  colluded to stop APC convention

VIDEO: How Tinubu emerged APC presidential candidate- El-Rufai

February 2, 2023
APC suspends state congress in Oyo

Makinde’ll answer for his many crimes after May 29, Oyo APC vows

February 2, 2023
Kwankwaso: Why I won’t go on medical tourism as president

Kwankwaso: Why naira notes scarcity isn’t affecting presidential candidates

February 2, 2023
Amosun, Abiodun trade words over performance, abandoned projects

Amosun, Abiodun trade words over performance, abandoned projects

February 2, 2023
Next Post
Renowned lawyer, Atsuete, assassinated in Rivers

Renowned lawyer, Atsuete, assassinated in Rivers

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Newspeakonline

© 2020 Newspeak & Associates
Optimized by IChannelTech.

Navigate Site

  • Breaking News
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Interview
  • Newpeak Magazine
  • Newspeak Exclusives
  • Politics

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Latest News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Technology
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Interview
  • Newspeak Exclusives

© 2020 Newspeak & Associates
Optimized by IChannelTech.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
Newspeak We would like to show you notifications for the latest news and updates.
Dismiss
Allow Notifications