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Staff Writer Have you ever been told to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day to stay hydrated? Or that you shouldn’t eat too much sugar as it will make you seriously hyper? Despite how you believed or believe these so called ‘facts’, that are surprisingly rather not truthful. During winter time, you’re most likely to wear thicker clothing to keep you warm. Primarily because your mother doesn’t want you to catch a cold due to the freezing weather. Well, what mom worried about isn’t the root of the problem. Fevers and colds are transmitted by contact with a sick patient, not by going out in the snow, where there is less virus than in your own home. Although viruses do tend to span in December, this doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the climate. It is most likely due to staying in your cozy house full of heat. When you see screaming children running wild at a birthday party, you might tell yourself, that’s definitely because of the sugary chocolate cake. That might be little too far from accuracy. Scientists have found out in a study that sugar is not responsible for hyperactive activity, nor change in cognitive skills. However, after being told their children have savored a bowl of sweets, parent are likely to raise their expectations, therefore concluding the child had gotten more hyper due to the sugar. As we are all taught in elementary school by our trustworthy teachers, there are five senses in the human body--- touch, smell, hear, taste, and sight. Perhaps add another 16 senses and it might just be true. A sense is ‘any system that consists of a group of sensory cell types that respond to a specific physical phenomenon and that corresponds to a particular group of regions within the brain where the signals are received and interpreted,’ in this case, a human body has plenty of these. Researchers agree that there are about 21 senses. “Oh really? I have never known that before, I always thought that I only had 5 senses. ” Reacted Anna Cunningham when told this myth is untrue. An example other than the ‘original’ 5 is proprioception, which is the sense that tells the brain where your body parts are. Without this sense, you probably won’t be able to get the food into your mouth so easily. Last but not least, the summer reminder, ‘you should drink 8 glasses of water per day’. No matter how many times this is said to be wrong, the science-less ‘fact’ remains in the worry of people. The origin of this myth is from a 1945 Food recommendation, declaring that the daily water recommendation for adults is 2.5 liters, which is about 8 glasses of water. However, the article also stated that much of this amount is contained the normal consumption of food already, an important fact missed by many. There is 1 milliliter of water in each calorie of food, so drinking 8 liters of water a day might just be a little too much. ‘But it won’t do any harm if I drink a little extra water, right?’ Wrong, and Aaron E. Caroll, a pediatrician, agrees strongly with this. "Contrary to many stories you may hear, there’s no real scientific proof that, for otherwise healthy people, drinking extra water has any health benefits," said Aaron. Comments are closed.
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