Tag Archives : health myths

If you think that you are not at risk of heart attack just because you are of normal weight, you might have been misled. ‘Some people are born with a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol. They may look like the picture of health from the outside, but inside they can have dangerous plaque blocking their coronary arteries, the arteries that surround [...]

The old assumption that running will destroy the knees no longer applies. According to new studies, runner’s knee is avoidable and that running can even actually protect the knees. Having a suntan is definitely pronounced as dangerous. The old belief was that ‘ultraviolet light or sunlight, which contains ultraviolet light, could cure rickets, [...]