Pick foods with lots of vitamin C to help you fight off infection or the cold virus. Most doctors advise patients to drink plenty of fluids when they are sick and to eat if they feel hungry. Especially if you include an apple a day in your diet! Or, is that another myth?įeed a cold, starve a fever is another time-honored tale with little or no truth behind it. So what’s a healthy eater to do? When in doubt, eat a wide variety of colorful fruits and vegetables everyday and you will be as healthy as you are meant to be. As for spinach, we probably all know that it contains high levels of iron that should strengthen our muscles, but have you heard of oxalic acid? Spinach also contains this chemical that can block iron absorption. The antioxidants will lower your cancer risk, which may allow you to keep enjoying your hair-even if it isn’t curly.Įat spinach for strong “Popeye-sized” muscles. Bread crusts have been found to contain as much as eight times more antioxidants than the rest of the loaf, but consuming crusts will not provide curly hair. Whatever you are doing to the rest of your body affects your eyes eating more fruits and vegetables is better, as you are eating fewer chemicals and fatty foods.”Įat the crust of your bread and you will have curly hair. Optometrist Stuart Anderson of Kansas City North, states: “Vegetables and fish are wonderful foods for your eyes. Eating carrots can reduce by 40 percent your chances of developing macular degeneration (a loss of central field of vision) and supports your overall health. Although carrots do contain vitamin A and other ingredients that support eye health, they will not ward off wearing glasses nor improve already poor eyesight. So, pass along some of these old wives’ tales to your children:Įat your carrots for good eyesight. We can find solace in the fact that a handful of the food myths we heard during childhood are somewhat true. However, one study at Harvard University did link food and the baby’s sex, finding that mothers of boys ate more than mothers of girls, possibly accounting for higher birth weights among boys.Īll right, perhaps we’ll accept that predicting the gender of our offspring is rather a futile effort. low predictors aren’t any more accurate than the ring/string method, nor are the heartbeat counters (high = girl, low = boy) or mom’s food cravings. Doctors still say that the shape of the mother’s stomach only reveals the baby’s position and the mother’s uterine and muscle tone. Sure, it’s fun to do these “at home” tests, but there is no evidence that this predictor is anymore than 50 percent accurate. Wave the string over a pregnant woman’s stomach.
Perhaps the first old wives’ tales to address are those surrounding determining the sex of a pregnant mother’s baby! The ring and string method is among the most popular methods. Review the following old wives’ tales to see how you rank on the superstition scale. They’ve gained widespread acceptance, despite scientific evidence to discredit them. These tidbits of wisdom seemingly have no basis in fact, but have been passed down since the Middle Ages.
No matter how practical you are, old wives’ tales are a part of our culture and often influence our behavior. An apple a day keeps the doctor away frogs give you warts …
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