--- title: Growing, skin, hair and food — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Growing, skin, hair and food», a lesson of the myths course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The party is over, there is cake on the ceiling, and Mum groans: "No more sweets, they're bouncing off the walls on all that sugar!" Every grow --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / Growing, skin, hair and food # Growing, skin, hair and food Lesson 6 of the myths course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/0/) — The party is over, there is cake on the ceiling, and Mum groans: "No more sweets, they're bouncing off the walls on all that sugar!" Every grown-up in the room nods. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/1/) — But scientists tested it: some children got sugar, others a sugar-free drink, and not even their parents knew who had which. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/2/) — Their behaviour came out the same, and it was the party, not the sugar, that made everyone wild. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/3/) — Body myths spread because something looks true: veins look blue, so "blood is blue"; stubble feels rough, so "shaving makes hair thicker"; skin shrinks after death, so "hair keeps growing". - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/4/) — And sometimes the strange claim wins: eat mountains of carrots and your skin really can turn a bit orange, and you really are a little taller in the morning than at bedtime. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/5/) — So the trick is not to laugh at everything or believe everything, but to ask: what is really going on, and how could I check it? - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/6/) — Careful studies, where neither children nor parents knew who had sugar, found sugar did not make children hyperactive (wildly overactive); excitement at parties is the more likely cause, and the secret mattered, because parents who think a child had sugar tend to notice wilder behaviour. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/7/) — Spots come mainly from hormones, skin and genes; one chocolate bar will not cause a breakout, though very sugary diets may matter for some people. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/8/) — Shaving does not change how thick, dark or fast hair grows; cut hair just has a blunt tip that feels coarser. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/9/) — Hair and nails do not grow after death; the skin dries and shrinks, so they only look longer. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/10/) — Blood is always red: bright red with oxygen and darker red without; veins look blue because of the way skin scatters light. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/11/) — Eating huge amounts of carrots really can turn the skin slightly orange; it is called carotenaemia, it is harmless and it fades. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/12/) — Each hair root grows one hair, so pulling out a grey hair does not make two grow back. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/13/) — The slogan that breakfast is "the most important meal" was spread partly by cereal advertising; breakfast helps many children concentrate, but scientists debate how special it is. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/14/) — Frozen vegetables are frozen soon after picking and keep their vitamins well; they can be as healthy as fresh ones that have travelled for days. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/15/) — Growth hormone is released during deep sleep, and you are slightly taller in the morning because your spine stretches out while you lie flat. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/16/) — When everyone blames one thing, like sugar, it is worth checking whether something else, like a party, happens at the same time. - ← previous: [Moving, swimming and sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/5-moving-swimming-and-sport/) - next →: [Pets and farm animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/) - ↑ back to [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/)