7 'medical myths'

There should be more things like this in the news. The BBC recently had a story yesterday addressing 7 common myths:

• Drink at least eight glasses of water a day


• We use only 10% of our brains


• Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death


• Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight


• Shaving causes hair to grow back faster or coarser


• Mobile phones are dangerous in hospitals


• Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy

(All of these are false. I'd never heard the mobile phone one before, and I already knew the one ones about our brains and shaving.)

1. 'Medical myths' exposed as untrue