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Reading in dim light won't damage your eyes, you don't need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs won't make the hair grow back faster. 在昏暗的灯光下看书不会伤害眼睛；每天也不必喝八杯水来保持健康；剃掉腿毛也不会让它长得更快。 These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal. 这些老生常谈在《英国医学杂志》的一篇论文中被列入七项“医学误区”。 Two U.S. researchers, Aaron Carroll and Rachel Vreeman, took seven common beliefs and searched the archives for evidence to support them. 阿伦·卡罗尔和雷切尔·弗里曼是来自美国的两位研究人员，他们选定了七个普遍共识，搜寻了大量卷宗来寻找支持它们的证据。 Despite frequent mentions in the popular press of the need to drink eight glasses of water, they found no scientific basis for the claim. The other six "myths" are: 尽管大众媒体经常提到每天要喝八杯水，但对这一说法他们并没有找到科学依据。其他六个“误区”是： Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight 在昏暗的灯光下看书会毁坏视力 The majority of eye experts believed it was unlikely to do any permanent damage, but it might make you squint, blink more and have trouble focusing, the researchers said. | 
