Has someone ever lied to you? Did you even know they lied to you? Did you figure it out by them telling you, someone else telling you, or maybe you never knew?…till now. These are 4 lies you were most likely told as a kid that aren’t true.
The first lie I’m gonna talk about is one of the least known on the list, and it’s that too much sugar makes you hyperactive. This is more of a common misconception that parents think is happening. According to Eatright, “In one study, parents were asked to rate their child’s hyperactivity after consuming a drink with sugar. Unknown to the parents, the drink was sugar-free, but the parents still rated their child as more hyperactive.” The reason people mostly think that is because in the 1970’s there was a study where they took all the sugar from the kid and his behavior improved.
The next lie is that you can’t swim for an hour after eating. There are a lot of people who say that it diverts blood flow from your arms and legs to your gut to help digest, which in turn makes you more tired and fatigued so you’re more likely to drown. While this is true, it is not dangerous in any way, it might just be a little uncomfortable. Finestresorts.com says, “According to modern-day medical professionals and the American Red Cross, eating before swimming does not pose any dangers.”
Another lie you might have been told is that cavemen lived in caves. This isn’t entirely a lie because there were certain tribes that did live in caves. They are the easiest to discover in the modern day because most of them were painted on the caves and there was nothing to erase that they were there. While the other tribes made stuff like wood houses which erode and basically disappear over time. They were more of nomadic hunter-gatherers kind of like a lot of Native-American tribes were (in western Kansas).
And the 4th lie I believed until writing this is that dogs see in black and white. They do see in colors such as blue, yellow, brown, and gray. For reference, people see(unless you’re color blind) Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. People started thinking that dogs see in black and white because there was an old book called Training the Dog and it stated, “It’s likely that all the external world appears to them as varying highlights of black and gray”. Also, in the 1960s, some researchers hypothesized that out of all the mammals, only primates (human, monkeys, gorillas, etc..) could see color.
Isn’t it crazy that people truly thought that all these were true at some point and it is still somehow being spread around? All of these have been disproven fairly recently (probably in the last 20-40 years). So, if your grandparents or someone tries to tell you one of these, maybe reference this article or something like this so they might learn a thing or two about stuff they thought was true.
