#921 Snot True

Remember when your mom told you to wear a hat if it’s freezing outside or you’ll catch a cold? Snot true.
Well, not accurate, to be exact. Seems having your head uncovered does involve heat loss from your body, just not any more or any less than any other bare patch of skin exposed to the elements. Your mom could as easily have told you not to go out with your pants down or your armpits uncovered.
But like most folk wisdom no one ever brings that up, because it’s obvious. And being pants free feels colder than not wearing a hat.
Nonetheless, two scientists have recently set about disproving all kinds of motherly advices we’ve come to accept without question.
Science... what do you do? First, it was the sun not circling around the flat earth and now this. What a bunch of spoilsports.
One of the debunked old wives tales, excuse me, elderly female spouses tales is the notion that eating at night increases your poundage. Not true, say Doctors Aaron Carroll and Rachel Vreeman in the British Medical Journal. Repeated studies have found no link to eating at night and excess weight gain.
Eating too much, yes, eating it when, who cares?
All right. Late night Ben and Jerry’s I’m coming back to get ya.
Although I don’t know if I trust these scientists. They’re actually from Indiana Medical University and they had to publish in a British Medical Journal. And we all know Britain was once strong on curing everything with bleeding.
In any event, they also found there’s no connection with kids eating sugar and hyperactivity. It’s just that parents expect to see it, and so they notice it more after the grandparents deliberately and insidiously set out to undermine their authority and try to get the Kids wound up.
Obviously some passive-aggressive generational issues rearing up.
And lastly, the scientists say Poinsettias are not poison-settias. In almost 23,000 cases where people porked down a poinsettia, only 4% needed medical attention.
Still, that’s 920 sick folks. Enough to insure poison poinsettias will enter the next generation of bugbears.
Because I’m guessing those 920 people were old wives.
America, ya gotta love it.