Old wives’ tales don’t only come from our mothers and grandmothers. Sometimes, it’s the doctors themselves who help spread them. And if the doctor said so, it must be true, right?
I just read about a book written by Andrew Adesman, Babyfacts: The Truth About Your Child’s Health From Newborn Through Preschool. Dr. Adesman is a pediatrician in New York .
Aaron Carroll and Rachel Vreeman also wrote a book about medical myths, called Your Gum! Myths, Half-Truths and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health . I’ve got to read it because I remember my grandmother telling me when I was very small, that if I ate apple seeds, a tree would grow in my stomach. That took a lot of figuring out – and of course testing on my part. Never did feel a tree growing though. That being said, I did worry about the gum I was swallowing, now that I think about it.
To read some of the myths the doctors wrote about, check out the USA Today article, Some medical myths come straight from the doctor . You may end up finding out something you believed just isn’t true.
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Although I would encourage everyone to read BabyFacts, my new book that debunks more than 160 common parenting myths, interested readers may want to start by going to the book’s website, http://www.BabyFacts.com. There, you can find 6 different “Myth or Fact?” quizzes that are fun, informative, and completely anonymous. Readers will learn a lot just by taking the quizzes.