That belly is to drink beer

Phrases that we have already heard our lives, which we give forever and that we continue to repeat generation after generation. Three experts are expanding different of these myths here. Because, let’s take a look, no, crumbs food does not grow.

Dr. Giuseppe Russolillo, president of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, makes some claims.

Brewing Belly

These prominent bellies that prevent more than one parts of the body from seeing the help of the mirror are due to an unhealthy food and lifestyle, explain the nutritionist: «People who collect fat at abdominal level wear a little healthy diet. It is of course possible that they can drink beer, but there are belly of this type in people who eat very badly and do not drink beer ». This is the Android or visceral obesity, says Russolillo, which is accumulating in the intestine and waist «and is a high risk, much more than when the fat is deposited in gluteus or thighs, because in the gut, near the guts, the cardiovascular risk increases, especially in women. And the chance of diabetes ».

If you eat crumbs, the breasts grow

Here Rusolillo laughs a lot: “Ha, ha, it’s a totally false myth, there is no evidence that it is the case under all circumstances.” It is clear that the peanuts are not worthy either.

Chocolate encourages us

Consuming a lot of chocolate can release a series of neurotransmitters at brain level that help us be better: «There is something when you take such food, which helps with the synthesis and segregation of serotonin, it can be. In general, these are sweet foods or those who remind us of our youth, and they can help us encourage us, although not because food has that power themselves, but because they release a series of neurotransmitters ».

With the sausage they come from granules

Russolillo says that it can happen with any exaggerated fat food: “If we take a diet with many fats, especially of animal origin, we can have in addition to that type of reactions, such as the appearance of acne.”

The melon in the morning is gold, in the afternoon, silver and killing at night

A statement says. But the nutritionist ensures that there is no evidence to take the melon at an hour, can benefit or harm. «Now I am in favor of listening to the body: if you observe it every time you take a food, produce acne or feel bad, note and look for a replacement or take it for another hour. It is a myth because there is no evidence, but if someone feels bad and is repeated over time, that he goes to the nutritionist, because it is not good to suppress food from the diet ».

The gynecologist Francisco Carmona responds with humor to things that we hear in the field of sexual relationships for pregnancy, pregnancy and delivery, land paid for legends.

Put on your legs after sex facilitates pregnancy

It is a very widespread myth, even among people with a lot of training. The gynecologist says that he has a partner of medical friends who are convinced that they have worked: «But it has nothing to do. What is essential is that sperm has spontaneous movement, that they are able to move linearly, not in circles. And orgasm in women is important because these contractions work like a seed vacuum ». He points out that the ovary that ovulates, releases substances that ensure that male cells tackle it more than opposite the other.

That belly is as a child …

It is one of the most common myths, people who, because of the shape of the abdomen – a higher, higher, lower … – of the pregnant woman, they claim to know if a boy or a girl will come … “Wow, no. I did practices with a gynecologist who was guessed to always have told what he was wrong with what he had and when he came with what he was wrong with what he had to come with what he had and fetched with what he had, fenal, and, and, and, and, but Explanations, he took his documents and made it very clear that he predicted a girl!

If the pregnant woman does not eat what is there, a ‘strawberry’ comes from the baby

Carmona jokes: «Well, it is very important, it is very important to maintain this myth, so that we continue to mimic pregnant women. To get strawberries at midnight … and notice that the places that come to babies for very different reasons are called ‘strawberries’ or ‘crazy’ … without more ».

Eat everything and so the fetus will get used to those tastes …

And he will like asparagus. Well, too. It is as if they say that the pregnant woman is not allowed to drink cow’s milk, because if not, if not the child will develop intolerance for that food. Everything the mother takes breaks into other components that are those who go to the baby through the umbilical cord. So not.

Does the full moon cause deliveries?

There are many studies that show that there is no increase in births with the full moon, even though it is a widespread conviction. «Otherwise the hospitals would collapse and that will not happen. I do not know where this myth can come from, I suppose that from the tides, caused by the moon, but because they are huge masses of water on which it can exert its influence, but the water that a pregnant woman has in her belly is a very small amount. “

The pediatrician and director of the center growth, Lucía Galán helps to clarify some concepts.

Heal the saliva?

“Despite the popular saying of ‘Licks Wounds’, it is not recommended to do it literally,” says Galán. He explains that human saliva contains a wide variety of harmless bacteria in our own mouth, but can cause an important infection in open wounds from other parts of the body. “In fact, when they cross the skin, human bites are more easily infected and more serious than those of animal origin.” He advises to better clean wounds with soap and water and disinfect with an antiseptic.

If something is short, he is healing.

Not necessary. Within the wound healing process the doctor points it, sometimes they bite, “but they are sometimes also infected, so if it bites, it’s not because he heals.” Carefully.

Boud the cold and you will be cold

«What causes the cold is not the cold, but the virus. That is, if there is no virus, even when it is cold, there is no cold. And viruses are transmitted by narrow contact between people when one of them is a carrier of the virus; The population has understood this with the Coronavirus ». What happens in the winter? Those breathing viruses mainly as cold to reproduce and stay active, so there are much more circulating in the winter than in the summer. «Moreover, we live more together in closed environments in the winter, so infection is greater and the low humidity of the interiors is in favor of the replication of viruses. This dryness in the environment means that our mucous membranes are not sufficiently hydrated and our virus cleaning systems do not work perfectly. It refers to the nose Cilia, who helps to catch and clean the germs. I summarize in the winter, spend more time with high heating that resects the area and is all more together, form “the perfect storm to become bad.” Of course he clarifies that exposure to cold in a maintained way, “which causes hypothermia, weakens our immune system, but does not leave for a moment to throw waste without the jacket.”

If you bleed your nose, your head back

Exactly the opposite, because throwing back all the blood goes to the throat, “with what the person could suffocate, cough him or even vomit,” the pediatrician explains. He points out that what you have to do is the person sitting and bending a little forward so that the blood can reach that Boca is plotted. «We tell you that you have to breathe through the mouth and press our fingers on the nostrils for a few minutes until it yields bleeding. Normally the bleeding will have yielded within ten minutes ». And it is better that the nose does not sound, or put paper or cotton in it, because when you remove it, it can bleed again.

Do you have cough? Cut onion

“Put it can say it without a problem,” says Galán. But in addition to reaching a scent in the room that there will be no way to eliminate in weeks, the cough will not improve. Or yes, but not because of onion, there is no scientific evidence that it is demonstrating, I am sorry. That the ‘works for me’ cannot replace the scientific method. It is like who says: “I always cross the traffic light in red and nothing happened to me”; That’s why we cross everything in the red because the total … what should we wait for?