Many doctors have clarified this matter on their Facebook pages. Dr Pirat Lokapattana, an internal medicine specialist at Vajira Hospital, an avid health blogger and winner of the best health blog at the Thailand Blog Awards 2010, said that there was no research to back up this claim. While lime contains antioxidants such as flavonoid and limonoid, the concentration is not enough to kill cancer cells.
To use the lime and soda concoction as a cancer cure is not the only health myth circulating the cyberworld. Here are two more health myths that we see often on Facebook, and here is what doctors and experts have to say about them: