When I was growing up, I was told that if I ate watermelon seeds that watermelons would grow out of my ears. FAKE NEWS!!! Okay, I figured out early on that wasn't true. Here are five much more believable medical myths that (according to the editors from Publications International) are not true.

5 Medical Myths

Here is my advice to you. Don't take my word on it, ask a professional whether it's true or not. He/She is paid to know these things and I'm not.

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