From eggs raising cholesterol to cold weather giving you a cold, we bust the biggest health myths out there.
In the old days—just a few years ago, in fact—health misinformation would spread slowly. Not today. “The Internet has given people the ability to send everyone on their e-mail lists wild stories that end up mushrooming around the world in a matter of hours,” says Rich Buhler, creator of Truthorfiction.com, a Web site devoted to debunking false e-mail rumors. But relax: Most of those health scares hitting your in-box are a misreading of facts or a deliberate twisting of the truth. Here, the whole story.
