What You Never Knew Could Kill You

pocketpig II SG

was looking for a online version for the book but couldn't, so i type this personally.
this is taken from david french's "Everything is bad for you : An A-Z Guide to What You Never Knew Could Kill You"

this book can be found in MPH bookstore

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Bread
Sliced bread doesn't deserve its great reputation. If you're sensitive to gluten, eating bread can give you headaches or loss of coordination. Scientists from the U.S. and Australia have theorized that the refined starches in bread could increase insulin levels, which might make your eyeballs too long and lead to shortsightedness.

Carrots
Having good night vision may not be worth it: smokers who eat carrots increase their chances of lung cancer.

Cheeses, Soft
The spoonfuls of fat and thousands of calories may not be the only threat lurking in that Brie (Brand). The bacterium listeria monocytogenes can contaminate soft cheeses ( even if theyre refridgerated), causing flu-like symptons. When the bacterium infects pregnant women, it can lead to miscarriages or mental and physical damage to their fetuses.

Charcoal Grills
Those funny-looking hot dogs your brother-in-law always brings arent the only danger at the family barbeque. In 1996, ninteen people in the U.S. died of poisoning by carbon monoxide from charcoal grills.

Chocolate, Eating
Eating chocolate is bad for you(surprise, surprise): its low in fiber and high in calories, fat, and sugar.

Chocolate, Not eating
Chocolate contains antioxidant flavonoids that may help protect arteries and prevent heart disease- so not eating it is bad for you.(If youre premenstrual, not eating chocolate can also be bad for anyone near you.)

Cholesterol, Too Little
Have a hamburger. The death rate doubles for people with too little cholesterol.

Cholesterol, Too much
Put that hamburger down. The death rate doubles for people with too much cholesterol.

Coffee, Drinking
Drinking coffee can make anxiety and panic disorders worse, and its been shown to harm the aorta. It also increases your risk of miscarriages and developing carpal tunnel syndrome. Drinking unfiltered coffee can increase cholesterol levels. Smokers who drinks coffee increase their risk of lung cancer. How has our society survived this long?

Coffee, Not Drinking
People who dont drink are more likely to contract Parkinsons are more likely to contract Parkinsons disease and, especially if they smoke, cancer of the bladder.

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i personally think each individual react differently to different kinds of foods, and not everyone suffers or die from eating them.

enough for today, time for rest

pocketpig II SG

Coffee, Not Drinking
People who dont drink are more likely to contract Parkinsons disease and, especially if they smoke, cancer of the bladder.

Diets
A high-protein diet with lots of red meat can give you heart disease. Low-carbohydrate diets may lead to ketosis, which can cause bad breath, nausea, and a nasty taste in the mouth. And low-fat diets can give you a whole variety of health problems.

Dish Cloths
More proof that CLEANLINESS is bad for you:the cloths you use to dry dishes can serve as breeding grounds for the organisms that causes salmonella, campylobacter, and viral infections.

Dollar bills
Bill gates probably wouldnt agree, but money is bad for you. A study found that one dollar bill in fourteen was contaminated by microbes that could cause serious illness, while 90 percent carried germs, including the notorious flesh eating bug.

Drinking
For young people, drinking can lead to violence(90 percent of all rapes on college campuses involve alcohol) or serious accidents (alcohol-related accidents are the leading causes of death amonmg fifteen-to-twenty-four-year-olds). Children born to drinking mothers can suffer from fetal alcohol syndromes, whose symptoms include low birthrate, distorted facial features, stunted growth, and mental retardation that may be irreversible. In a study of accidents in wilderness area, alcohol played a significant role in one-half of all fatalities. Alcohol abusers are at particular risk of developing conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome and hypertension. Even moderate drinking may make you more likely to suffer brain atrophy, which is associated with reduced neurological and cognitive function. Now put that traffic cone back where you got it.

Drinking, Not
Great Excuse of the Day: if you dont drink, youre more likely to get diabetes, heart disease, and cancer(if its red wine that youre not drinking) than people who do. Not drinking may also make you more likely than moderate drinkers to suffer white matter infarcts, which are associated with reduced neurological and cognitive function.

Drinks, Hot
Drinking hot beverages increase your risk of esophageal cancer. If you think reaching for something iced gets you off the hook, though, youre wrong.

Cancer:Abnormal cell growth
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typing 135 pages of the book is going to kill me, last post Razz

theTelepath SG

damned if you and Damned if you dont

FireIce SG

we shd juz all go commit suicide rite?
or we'll die if we eat
no eat oso die of hunger.....

pocketpig II SG

don’t feel paranoid yet, what i typed is only a drop in the ocean, there is also sections for pregnancy, vehicles, hardware and such. Food is what i extracted for this forum.

ace84 SG

wao xia lah….is this real ?? so frightening man..eat wat den die wat style….lololx …scary~~ better dun eat n meditate on incense liao :X

Estee SG

moral of the story – chi le hui si, bu chi ye hui si, na jiu chi le zai shuo bah~~

the Bear SG

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

A case in point is Japan, where mothers went and disinfected the hell out of everything their babies would come into contact with.. this went on until the child was in their teens.. then the child went out like normal people and fell ill... their immune systems were so geared to living in an almost sterile condition, they were pretty much useless in the face of ordinary life.

Know what your allegies are and then avoid them... avoiding everything because they may cause you harm will end up killing you...

pocketpig II SG

i want to dedicate these to the posters

dedicated to theTelepath

Air-Conditioning
Next time its a hundred degrees outside and youre sitting smugly in your nice, cool office, keep this in mind: pollution in an air-conditioned room is likely to be two to five times as great in the air outdoors.

Air
Thanks to the pollution that cars and industries generate, this entry could be about you! Sixty-two million Americans live in areas whose air contains such high levels of major pollutants.

FireIce will find this useful

Anxiety
If you worry, you should worry. Anxiety can double your risk of asthma, arthritis, headaches, ulcers and heart disease, as well as making middle-aged men more likely to die of strokes.

estee can share this with FireIce

Fear
If youre scared of surgery, skip this entry, because its not going to help. People who are afraid of surgery tend to have excessive bleeding during their operations, as well as infections and complications afterwards.

ace84

Incense
Does incense help you meditate? Not anymore, it wont. Incense fumes contain chemicals that are associated with lung, bladder, skin, and scrotal cancers, thus doing bad things to several of your chakras. Ommmmmm.

for theBear

Respiratory Infections
For the One-Damn-Thing-After-Another file: having a chronic respiratory infection can lead to atherosclerosis, heart attacks and strokes.