HARDLY A COINCIDENCE...:

Busting Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe: No, your hair and nails don't grow after death, report says (Ed Edelson, 12/07, Business Week)

Somewhere in the back of your mind is the idea that you should drink at least eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy.

You may have nodded in agreement when someone mentioned scientific studies showing that, on average, you use just 10 percent of your brain.

And you may have lectured your children about the danger of reading in dim light, which could cause permanent eye damage.

None of this is true. But the ideas continue to circulate (and be believed even by some physicians), say Drs. Rachel Vreeman and Aaron Carroll of the Indiana University School of Medicine. They've taken the time and trouble in a two-page report in the Dec. 22-29 British Medical Journal to puncture seven such medical myths.

...that the end of smoking killed the myth that you have to wait an hour after lunch before going in swimming.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 26, 2007 8:30 AM