Festive medical myths -- Vreeman and Carroll 337: a2769 -- BMJ - The Diigo Meta page

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• 11 May 10
  

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  These and four other myths are debunked - the evidence just doesn't support them.

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• 05 Jan 09
  

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  From the Christmas 2008 season. A look at some medical myths that persist to this day, by Vreeman & Carroll (BMJ, Dec 17 2008)

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  • Scientists have even studied how parents react to the sugar myth. When parents think their children have been given a drink containing sugar (even if it is really sugar-free), they rate their children’s behaviour as more hyperactive.⁴ The differences in the children’s behaviour were all in the parents’ minds.⁴
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• 02 Jan 09
  

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• 31 Dec 08
  

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