To spout utter rubbish health advice?

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EG, sitting on stone steps gives you piles, going out with wet hair will give you a cold, too much sugar in your tea gives you worms, any red food is good when you are on your period, watching TV too much makes your eyes go square, milk goes DIRECTLY to your bones and teeth to make them stronger, standing on your head makes you cleverer, swimming after food is deadly, chocolate gives you spots...

Any more for any more?

(Shamelessy derived from the expressions thread :) )

That coffee stunts your growth- this has been said to me many times over the years, by people who think I was nuts for letting my little ones have a cup. My just turned 14 yo DD is six foot tall, and Ds, just turned 12, is five foot seven so far.....

Poor you. I hope they get better, yukon. But I am sure you didn't get them from sucking money. At least I know it was part true....

Squareegg - I think it's meant to give the baby luck in life to cross their palm with silver. Could be a regional thing - my mum was quite surprised when she took my baby brother to visit relatives in the north east 30 years ago and people kept giving him money, as it didn't happen where she was from in the south.

Whenever anyone (particularly MIL) comments on the fact that I don't eat crusts, I just tell them that I don't want my hair to go curly.

pedant alert

My GM used to tell me sugar gives you worms

I tell DS 11yo that if I put something in the freezer when its on its use by date that the freezer reverses time! Disclaimer, I've never given him food poisoning .

if I put something in the freezer when its on its use by date that the freezer reverses time Brilliant!

... evil, but brilliant ...

Yup - garlicbutter. I remember the nurses telling our mothers group that we must wait 6 months to wean. I commented that that sort of advice changed all the time and would probably change back to four months in a few years. Oh no, she said, it would never change back.

Five years later the advice is 4 months again...

I'm sure it's still 6 months.

NHS advice is still around the middle of the first year

Tis confusing i have mahooosive age gaps and with dd2 17wks i am being told by books to "start when she is ready" but the baby food pkts say 4-6 months but the hv still says 6months,oh yes and granny said 6wks for rusk or rice in bottle

garlicbutter I remember a nutrtionist telling me how the govt were telling people not to eat butter and change to "veg spreads" she said that they then found out that the spreads were worse due to the additives etc. and that butter is better cos its fairly pure by comparrison but they cant be seen to backtrack. She also told me that margarine is grey before the colouring is added Seems like a good reason to eat butter too me

My xbf used to think that ketchup was really bad for you because it was acidic and would eat your insides.

I once got a terrible earache one night in bed, first he claimed it was because I was cold, then when I said that was bollocks he insisted it was the draft from the window. Never understood how drafts are meant to be terrible in the house but you can go out on a windy day and be fine.

Punkatheart - the only thing I know is that after sitting in a draught, then I pee much more often, almost constantly, for a couple of days. OK, it doesn't not make it a kidney infection but clearly there is reaction of the kidneys to the cold.

In regards to orange juice (or in fact any other juice with high levels of vitamin C such as cranberry juice), it can give you runs. Also at some point my BF DD was having lots of runny poos although not exactly a diarrhea and HV asked me whether I had been drinking more juice recently and I was (actually it was cranberry juice because I had kidney problems). I reduced the amount of juice I had and runny poos stopped.

Yes, but it couldn't have an immediate effect, surely? As in, if we were straining on the toilet, we would be taken off, given an orange to eat, then put straight back on.