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A lot of us depend on old wives' tales to help when we're sick, but what if the sayings are wrong?
We asked readers if they had old wives' tales that they wanted our Research Department to investigate. Here is a selection of the tales you sent in, along with the results of the work done by our researcher, Craig Segal.
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