10 misunderstandings about your health or suffer

Many people mistakenly believe that vitamins help the body stay healthy, alcohol kills brain cells, sugar makes children active, anti-viral antibiotics .

Here are the misconceptions about human health, according to Brightside.

Vitamins help the body stay healthy

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When you have excess vitamins, they will harm your body.

Vitamins only regulate processes in the body and should be used with caution. If you have excess vitamins, they will harm the body and show through outward signs.

Anoxic blood is blue

The amount of oxygen in the blood affects the blood color and ability to absorb light. Oxygen is transported by red blood cells. A maximum red cell can carry 4 molecules of oxygen. Under the surrounding effect such as high temperature, acid environment, one or more oxygen molecules will leave the red blood cells to make blood dark. This crimson color is still red in nature but easier to see as blue because the light shining on them is refracted.

Brown sugar is better than white sugar

Brown sugar is often mistaken for healthier because it is not as sweet as white sugar. But in fact, white and brown sugar all have the same effect.

Alcohol kills brain cells

Alcohol affects metabolism in the body and leads to oxygen deficiency. This harms the connection between brain cells, but it does not kill the brain cell itself as many people believe.

Sugar makes children active

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Some children eat a lot of sweets, they work just as a way to release energy.

Many studies have proved that sugar is not the culprit that makes children hyperactive. Sugar providing calories means energy. So, some children eat a lot of sweets, they work just as a way to release energy. Child care professionals only recommend not eating too much sugar or sweets because of easy tooth decay . but never recommend limiting sugar to prevent hyperactivity.

Need to sleep 8 hours a night

Everyone is advised to sleep 8 hours a night. However, the reality is not so, each person has different biological clock and different sleep needs. People who sleep too much or lack of sleep can negatively affect their health. Someone who only needs to sleep 6 hours a night has been awake, while someone who sleeps 10 hours a night still feels exhausted when he wakes up.

Antibiotics kill viruses

Antibiotics only kill bacteria. Many people with the flu take antibiotics that do not work because of the virus caused by the virus and not the bacteria.

Chocolate causes blackheads

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Eating chocolate has no effect on acne.

Scientists give participants 10 times more chocolate than normal. Then compare the number of blackheads these people had before and after the experiment, the results found no difference.

Road addictive

In 2009, an experiment in mice showed that they were addicted to sugar and could not survive without sugar when scientists fed them a large amount of sugar for several days. Experiments are repeated with humans, similar results do not occur.

The left hemisphere is the source of creativity; right brain hemisphere is the source of logic

Our brains are divided into two hemispheres, each performing different functions. Scientists have yet to find data to confirm that the left hemisphere is the source of creativity and the right hemisphere is the source of logic.