Cynical Activities - F
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FIBER, NOT EATING
On the other hand, not eating enough dietary fiber may increase your risk of cancer, heart disease, and obesity; and pregnant diabetics who consume too little fiber may need more insulin. Take your pick. |
FIREWORKS
Fireworks injure 8,500 people in the United States each year. Approximately 40 percent of these are children, which means at least 60 percent should have known better. |
FISHING
Women who eat sport fish from sources such as the Great Lakes, where there is contamination by polychlortnated biphenyls and persistent chlorinated pesticides, are less likely to be successful in becoming pregnant If you like fish and don't like children, we guess this could be good news. |
FLOWER SHOPS
Next time she complains that you don't bring her flowers anymore, tell her it's because it's just too much of a risk. Flower shops have high concentrations of molds, which can give you a stuffy nose, eye irritation, and wheezing. Prolonged exposure can lead to more severe reactions such as fever, shortness of breath, or mold infections in the lungs so if you decide to buy her that bouquet after all, don't linger over your choice. |
FLOWERS
And giving someone flowers isn't necessarily a nice thing to do anyway, at least if they're in the hospital. Flowers in surgical wards increase the chances of patients being infected by a bacterium that develops in the water when the flowers rot in hot weather. |
FOLIC ACID, NOT TAKING
Women who don't take enough folio acid before and during pregnancy may be at greater risk of having children with childhood leukemia or spinal cord defects such as spina bifida. Considering what percentage of pregnancies are planned in advance, this information isn't quite as useful as it sounds, but we thought you'd like to know anyway. |
FOLIC ACID, TAKING
And here's the part they don't tell you on the vitamin bottle: folic acid can be double trouble. Women who take folic acid supplements during pregnancy double their chances of having twins, which are more likely to be premature, have low birthweights, and suffer from cerebral palsy. |
FOOD
Contaminated food makes seventy-five million people sick and kills five thousand in the United States every year. You can avoid this by eating those unidentified vacuum-packed substances they give to astronauts, but most people who do this are scary individuals who live in bunkers and wait for the mother ship to come for them. |
FOOD, ETHNIC
Many popular ethnic foods, including all your favorites, sweet and sour pork with egg fried rice, crispy duck, lasagna, chicken tikka masala with pilaf rice, vegetable biryani, Tex-Mex food with sour cream and cheese, chicken enchiladas, contain unhealthy levels of fat. So stick with the traditional American health foods, like a Big Mac. |
FOOD, IRRADIATED
There's a reason why nature doesn't normally irradiate things. Actually, there are a lot of reasons. According to Public Citizen, irradiation destroys vitamins, nutrients, and essential fatty acids; kills beneficial microorganisms; forms carcinogens in certain foods; creates free radicals that make the body more susceptible to cancer, diabetes, heart disease, liver damage, muscular breakdown, and other serious health problems; and (at least in laboratory animals) causes chromosomal damage, immune and reproductive problems, kidney damage, tumors, internal bleeding, low birthweight, and nutritional muscular dystrophy. Looks like you'd be better off going hungry. |
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