As a child I used to believe that eating butter would make your hair fall out. My mother told me this. I grew up and shaved my head bald several times. Maybe she was sorta right.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe nun's shaved their heads and were completely bald.— Mark
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- I used to believe eating the crusts from sandwiches would make my hair curly.Anon
- When I was a little boy, I thought that hair was made out of peanut butter.Anon
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.