10 Popular Health Myths
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I want to highlight this :
Mind: Ghee is said to promote all three aspects of mental functioning -- learning, memory and recall.
It may have scientific truth to it afterall, because our body needs lipids (fat) to coat the membranes of the cells in our brains that conduct impulses and send messages.
So, if you go on some extreme diet and cut out all fat from your diet, not only will your skin and hair start to suffer in texture and appearance, you might even end up stupider!
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Originally posted by elindra:
Well too much anything is bad for you :P
Too much money ain't bad for me! And in any case, you will never find me complaining of 'too much' money!
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Too much money ain't bad for me! And in any case, you will never find me complaining of 'too much' money!
We are talking about food here :xYa our bodies need fat
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Should highlight this too
Eating ghee is also believed to enhance virility and sexual potency.
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Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:
Should highlight this too
Eating ghee is also believed to enhance virility and sexual potency.
Of course mah! Lipids provide the necessary lubrication for a lot of bodily functions!
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Of course mah! Lipids provide the necessary lubrication for a lot of bodily functions!
All this talk about Ghee makes me have sudden urge for roti prata... -
just eat and be happy?
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Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:
All this talk about Ghee makes me have sudden urge for roti prata...Actually, I was giving my ECG notes a quick glance-through and I remembered yet another health myth perpetuated by movies and TV shows. When someone flatlines, you see in the movies and TV series that the crash cart will be wheeled in and defibrillation will be started. (Defib = using the special paddles to send electricity into the body to 'shock' the heart, and hopefully get it to revert back to its normal beat).
That is such a huge, huge myth! In reality, if a person flatlines, you don't shock the person, instead, you commence CPR. If you shock a person when he/she flatlines, all you're doing is 'fry' the heart by electrocuting it.
There are only TWO waveforms that warrant a defib - Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Ventricular Fibrillation (VF). But I guess for dramatic effect, the flatline is more dramatic!
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Actually, I was giving my ECG notes a quick glance-through and I remembered yet another health myth perpetuated by movies and TV shows. When someone flatlines, you see in the movies and TV series that the crash cart will be wheeled in and defibrillation will be started. (Defib = using the special paddles to send electricity into the body to 'shock' the heart, and hopefully get it to revert back to its normal beat).
That is such a huge, huge myth! In reality, if a person flatlines, you don't shock the person, instead, you commence CPR. If you shock a person when he/she flatlines, all you're doing is 'fry' the heart by electrocuting it.
There are only TWO waveforms that warrant a defib - Atrial Fibrillation (AF) and Ventricular Fibrillation (VF). But I guess for dramatic effect, the flatline is more dramatic!
woo fry the heart! Sigh I think if it happens to me, u will probably smell a nice fragrant smell of sizzling fat
wa then why they insist that all airplanes carry tt thingy huh
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Crossing your legs can, however, speed the development of varicose veins if you're at risk or already have them.
so now we all sit with legs wide apart?!
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Well, detox diets probably won't do you a lot of harm..... but they won't do you a lot of good, either.
I've read about the detox diets of some people.... all they eat for 3-4 days straight are fruits and those overpriced 'detox teas' costing $60-$70. End of story. And then at the end of it all, they proclaim that they feel 'cleaner' and point to their weight loss as proof of the efficacy of detox diets.
I dare say that their 'clean' feeling is just a placebo effect.... and the weight loss was mainly water loss coupled with some fat and muscle loss due to the lack of intake of protein and complex carbs during the detox session.
So what do you lose during detox diets? Maybe about $60-$70 for those detox teas.
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Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:
woo fry the heart! Sigh I think if it happens to me, u will probably smell a nice fragrant smell of sizzling fat
wa then why they insist that all airplanes carry tt thingy huh
Those are special automatic defibrillators. Malls and public places in the US have them too.
The machine is fully automatic and all you need to do is place the two pads on a person's chest the way it's shown in the diagram on the machine, and then the machine will automatically interpret the ECG waveforms and there's a mechanical voice announcing what's happening, and giving you instructions on what to do next. If there's a need to defib, the machine automatically does it at the right time. You barely have to be trained to use it, really!
Did you know that if you try to defib a person during the wrong time, you'll either :
- get no response because the electrical charge had been given at the moment when the heart's having its own electrical impulse so it's obliterated; or
- inadvertently send someone into Ventricular Fibrillation, which means, your electrical charge was given when the heart muscles are repolarising (relaxing), and the wrongly-timed electrical charge triggers the bottom half of the heart into some sort of abnormal spasm!
The whole process is a lot more complicated than what you watch on TV!
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Originally posted by tare:
so now we all sit with legs wide apart?!Alamak!! Can't you sit with your legs together but not crossed?
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Well, detox diets probably won't do you a lot of harm..... but they won't do you a lot of good, either.
I've read about the detox diets of some people.... all they eat for 3-4 days straight are fruits and those overpriced 'detox teas' costing $60-$70. End of story. And then at the end of it all, they proclaim that they feel 'cleaner' and point to their weight loss as proof of the efficacy of detox diets.
I dare say that their 'clean' feeling is just a placebo effect.... and the weight loss was mainly water loss coupled with some fat and muscle loss due to the lack of intake of protein and complex carbs during the detox session.
So what do you lose during detox diets? Maybe about $60-$70 for those detox teas.
Precisely!
We all come equipped with our own detox organs, mainly the liver and kidneys. The only time we'll need to resort to any external form of detox would be when any of these organs fail. Hence, there's the commonly-known Kidney Dialysis, but did you guys know that there's Liver Dialysis too?
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Precisely!
We all come equipped with our own detox organs, mainly the liver and kidneys. The only time we'll need to resort to any external form of detox would be when any of these organs fail. Hence, there's the commonly-known Kidney Dialysis, but did you guys know that there's Liver Dialysis too?
It's extremely costly and not used often.Yeah.... seriously, if toxins were to accumulate in all our bodies as those detox ads claim, then we'd all be in trouble.
I really shake my head when I go to Guardian Pharmacy, Watson's and all those other reputable pharmacies and see whole shelves of overpriced detox products.... sigh.....
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1 and 4 hor... really anyhow...
Drinking more water helps your body clear toxins away faster, and has many other benefits.
Then vitamin C, 0.2g for research... Most other research that claims its benefits, I believe, reaches dosage of 0.5g to 1g
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Yeah.... seriously, if toxins were to accumulate in all our bodies as those detox ads claim, then we'd all be in trouble.
I really shake my head when I go to Guardian Pharmacy, Watson's and all those other reputable pharmacies and see whole shelves of overpriced detox products.... sigh.....
best detox is still to eat a lot of vege and fibre lor...
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Originally posted by eagle:
1 and 4 hor... really anyhow...
Drinking more water helps your body clear toxins away faster, and has many other benefits.
Then vitamin C, 0.2g for research... Most other research that claims its benefits, I believe, reaches dosage of 0.5g to 1g
I think you have to read carefully...
1 Drink eight glasses of water a day.
There's no scientific backing for this oft-cited rule, which has seen the water bottle become a ubiquitous accessory. It's such a popular myth it was endorsed by Kidney Health Australia (KHA), until it reviewed the policy about five years ago and discovered a "distinct lack of evidence.
The origin of "8X8" - eight glasses of eight ounces (240mls) - is unclear, although a potential suspect is a 1974 book by American nutritionist, Dr Frederick J Stare.
KHA Medical Director, Dr Tim Mathew, says the best rule is drink when you're thirsty, and choose water. You can use the colour of your urine as a guide - pale amber is good, darker means you're dehydrated.
Point No. 1 : It doesn't say to NOT drink water. All it says is, it's not necessary, not die-die MUST drink EIGHT GLASSES, ie works out to a total of 1,920 litres!
An individual's need for water varies, and there are some medical conditions where fluid restrictions have to be imposed and it therefore becomes detrimental to drink 1,920 L a day. We do have to drink water, just not 1,920 L of it.
4 Vitamin C stops you getting a cold.
Despite widespread use of the vitamin for this purpose, a Cochrane Review this year concluded that there's not much point.
The results of 30 trials showed that taking Vitamin C supplements (orally 0.2g+) makes almost no difference to whether you get a cold, unless you're doing extreme exercise and / or in very cold temperatures (marathon runners, skiers, soldiers on sub-arctic exercises).
Taking Vitamin C before the cold can cut its duration, but after you have symptoms it makes no significant difference. Severity isn't affected.
And that's true, because taking Vitamin C regularly doesn't mean that you will NEVER catch a cold ever.
And also, if you have already caught a cold, remember that it CAN help you recover faster, but it will not be able to reverse the situation. It just augments the recovery process, but isn't a miracle cure.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Yeah.... seriously, if toxins were to accumulate in all our bodies as those detox ads claim, then we'd all be in trouble.
I really shake my head when I go to Guardian Pharmacy, Watson's and all those other reputable pharmacies and see whole shelves of overpriced detox products.... sigh.....
They are merely using an old tried-and-tested method of effective marketing - striking fear!
Once you can cause someone to fear the unknown and the unfamiliar, once you can convince people that they will die / suffer ill health UNLESS they buy your health product, you can manipulate them like putty in your hands, which is what the unscrupulous companies and salespeople will do. -
i blive its the placebo effect. these kind of diets or health products works because mainly they make the user feel "good" from the knowledge that they are eating right and taking care of their health.
its no secret that a healthy mind makes a healthy body.