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Good, we can eat late at night guilt-free after all (so long as it's our third meal of the day, not our ninth.)

And the sugar-makes-children-hyper thing seems to have been debunked by several surveys.  I did my own little mini-survey on this, as during parties some of the small attendees become extremely hyperactive and over-excited without a single morsel of sugar having passed their lips.  Parents look around for something to blame, but the truth is, small children are silly  

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"Both physicians and non-physicians sometimes believe things about our bodies that just are not true," wrote Dr Rachel Vreeman and Dr Aaron Carroll. "Examining common medical myths reminds us to be aware of when evidence supports our advice."

I liked this whole thing - medical myths debunked - because it reminds me how easily we generally tend to accept received wisdom without question. It's easy to see the unsubstantiated nature of claims that have gone out of fashion or that we don't agree with (such as the superiority/inferiority of races/sexes/religions), but always hard to remember to ask where the "common sense" assertions we ourselves take for granted came from!

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but the truth is, small children are silly

Exactly! People should read the manual. Preferably before they have them if they expected anything else.

"Well he spent the whole day with a bunch of other kids. Opening presents, playing games, leaping up and down on a bouncy castle and then running around shrieking. He is excited now. It MUST be something he ate"

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