THINGS PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE ARE ACTUALLY QUITE DANGEROUS

DRINKING ALCOHOL AND TAKING TYLENOL

By themselves and in moderation these things are not that

dangerous, but put them together and get ready for a trip

to the hospital.

FIGHTING

This may sound silly, because who wouldn’t think that

fighting is dangerous? What people don’t realize, however,

is just how easy it is to never get up again. Every year

numerous people get hit the wrong way, or fall and smash

their head the wrong way, and that’s the end. You may want to

punch someone in the face but just know that you could

easily end up facing manslaughter charges.

TEXTING WHILE DRIVING

Ok, so you’re an ace driver, but it’s not even necessarily

that you are going to make more mistakes while texting.

It’s how you are going to react to other people’s mistakes.

DRIVING

As if texting while driving isn’t bad enough, driving itself is

already one of the most dangerous things you do on a

daily basis. We know you’re afraid of flying but you have

no idea how much safer it is. Every time you get in a

car your chance of dying skyrockets.

LEAVING A TOOTHACHE UNTREATED

Although it’s usually an easy fix, if you don’t get it looked at

it has the potential to turn into an infection that can even

affect your brain.

NOT GETTING VACCINATED

A significant proportion of our increased life expectancy has

to do with the fact that we have vaccines against diseases

that used to ravage entire societies. Believing the fraudulent

and disproved study about getting autism from vaccines

is not only dangerous to you but also the people around you.

SUNBURNS

One sunburn drastically increases your chance of getting

skin cancer. In fact, even tanning increases your chances.

How? Tanning is your body reacting to your DNA being

affected by UV radiation, thus releasing more melanin. Basically,

the tan you have is your body trying to prevent itself from

being damaged any further. Furthermore, skin cancer is one

of the easiest cancers to prevent (yet it is incredibly lethal and

quick to kill if it is not caught). Also, dark skinned people are

not exempt. It may even be more dangerous because it becomes

harder to spot the cancer on the skin.

Basic advice – protect yourself.

THE CINNAMON CHALLENGE

Eating a spoonful of powdered cinnamon has the potential

to kill you. How? It absorbs all of the water in your mouth

which could end up blocking your airway when you can’t

swallow the cinnamon because you have no liquid in

your mouth to make swallowing possible. Capsaicin, one

of the ingredients in cinnamon (and an active ingredient in

chili peppers) is also a terrible thing to have in your

lungs and can complicated matters even further.

SITTING

Sitting for prolonged periods of time (like on long flights)

can lead to blood clots forming in your legs and then

circulating into your heart, causing a heart attack.

Furthermore, even over the long run sitting every day

(like at work) has been found to correlate with numerous

health problems in the same way as smoking and obesity.