» Sorry guys its an urban myth, bummer huh? Here's what urbanlegends.com has to say:
Don't bet on it. No such study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (check for yourself).
A search of the thousands of international medical journal articles contained in the Medline database turned up zero items on this topic and zero items authored by "Dr. Karen Weatherby," who presumably does not even exist.
If the story seems to smack of tabloid journalism, it's because that's precisely what it is. It began circulating via email in March or April 2000, not long after a similar article appeared in the consistently misinformative Weekly World News (nor is this the first time we've run into laughable rumors traceable to that source). Link: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa072600a.htm
