I could read very early on, and a lot of the healhty cereals my mother would buy would talk about heart disease and why their cereal was healthy for you. I'd somehow gotten the idea that sugar went straight into your veins and made blockages, which then caused heart attacks. I took a look at my skinny little arms, and then at the spoonfuls of sugar I dumped on my Wheat Chex every morning, and stopped eating sugar on my cereal because I was sure that I was going to have a heart attack before I turned five.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- My mom told me that if I ate raw hotdogs or spoonfuls of sugar, I'd get worms. I believed her until I was 13.— seale
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I used to believe that when cordial drink said 'sugar free' that you didnt have to pay for the sugar in it!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- My mum told me that if I ate sugar from the sugar bowl I'd get worms.— QueenB