Tall Tales

Urban myths are harmless enough until you start basing your beauty and health routine on them Just as garlic won't keep vampires at bay, much beauty folklore is hooey piled up on a good sized heap of nonsense. So let's separate facts from fiction.

Drinking eight glasses of water a day keeps your skin clear by getting rid of toxins. Not true according to Susan Barr - Professor of nutrition at the University of British Columbia in Canada and 10 other scientists conducted a study for the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine and looked into the rule. After sifting through the research they couldn't find any evidence to support it. While our bodies lose eight to 12 cups of fluid a day, we take in water from foods and other beverages. Therefore our need for water can be met through drinking milk or coffee as well as eating fruits, vegetables, fish and poultry. Drinking too much water may flush away vitamins with the toxins.

Shaving your legs makes your hair grow back thicker. Shaving won't turn you into a Sasquath. Nor will it make your hair grow faster or change its color or length. If the regrowth or stubble on your legs seems coarse, it's mostly because longer hair, by contrast has been worn down by the element and the growing process. And as you age and go through changes, your leg hair does as well. Leg hair growth eventually slows down when hormonal levels drop and loses its pigmentation. So shaving's got nothing to do with how hair grows back.

Brushing Your Hair 100 Strokes Will Make It Shiny and Healthy. Not true. Brushing can make hair look healthy by distributing nature's conditioner-sebum (natural oil) throughout the hair and brushing can also help hair look shiny but over brushing can actually damage the hair by putting it out or breaking it off. Excessive brushing can also strip away its cuticles, making the hair weak and more likely to break. Careful brushing with a mixed bristle brush two or three times a day will do.

Now you know.

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