Every year the British Medical Journal has a Christmas issue devoted to more offbeat and lighthearted scientific studies.  This year’s issue had an article reviewing holiday themed medical myths. The article debunks the following myths:

• that sugar increases children’s hyperactivity
• that suicides increase around the holidays
• that poinsettias are poisonous for you or your pets
• that you lose more heat from your head than any other part of your body<...