There was an older kid at our school who was friends with me and my group of friends, and once when we were eating candy he told us what his mother apparently told him, but he must have misunderstood a little. He said that if you eat healthy, you grow bigger, so if you eat bad food, you slowly get smaller...I was really scared I would eventually be microscopic, but luckily his mom was with us once and corrected him.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- My Mum told me she invented skipping and I believed her and told all my friends - still living that one downAnon
- We were told that the bread crust is more healthy than the centre.— Arnon
- One of my friends told me that when he was a kid he thought windmills were used to keep cows cool!— Julie