20 Health Myths We’ve Believed Our Entire Lives That Are Not True

6Light from your computer or laptop damages your eyes

Yes, haven’t we all heard it from our mothers not to work in front of computer screens for too long as it damages the eyes and is bad for health? Computer screens emit radiation in too small amounts to cannot harm our eyes at all; there is no relation between the radiation from a computer screen and poor eyesight.

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7Shampoo and conditioner can get rid of split ends.

Shampoo and conditioners, no matter how costly or famous, cannot treat split ends. The most they can do is to make your hair silkier and shinier and maybe a little softer too. The only magic that works on your stubborn split ends though is a pair of sharp scissors and nothing else.

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8A man thinks about sex every 7 seconds

Seriously, we sometimes wonder, who can be really so dumb to believe such a claim which reeks of exaggeration. No man can really function normally, do their jobs, exercise, sleep or eat if they actually keep thinking about sex every 7 seconds! Agreed men do think about it much more than women but come on every 7 seconds!  It’s Impossible.

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9The human body can develop resistance to antibiotics

First thing first, it is the bacteria in our body which develops such resistance, not the human body. This is the reason why chronic patients need to keep changing their anti-biotics regularly because medicines stop being effective if taken on a long run continuously.

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10Vitamin ? prevents colds and flu

Yes, there are many self - proclaimed health experts amidst us who advise everyone around to take vitamin C, the moment any one confesses to having cold or flu. Pharmacies are afloat with vitamin supplements and vitamin C pills too. But in reality, all that Vitamin C can do is to boost our immune systems but it cannot prevent or cure the cause or symptoms if you are already afflicted with flu or cold that is.

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