A few other seasonally relevant myths from this article:● Vaccines can cause the flu. “A dead virus cannot be resurrected to cause the flu,” Rachel Vreeman, a doctor who has written about medical myths, told the website. ● Sugar makes kids really wired. Live Science writes: “In one particularly clever study, kids were given Kool-Aid sweetened with aspartame, a compound that contains no sugar. These behaviors may tire your eyes because they work harder, but “there is no evidence that these practices cause long-term damage,” Vreeman told Live Science.

Source: Washington Post October 21, 2016 18:03 UTC