The worst things you can do to your body

Filed in archive Miscellany on August 30, 2005

Forbes gives us another list - showing the worst things you can do to your body:

In a 1993 study published in The Journal of the american medical association, Drs. J. Michael McGinnis and William H. Foege examined the leading causes of nongenetic factors that contribute to death in the U.S., and they determined that they were nearly all linked to lifestyle and behavioral choices. These include tobacco and alcohol and illicit drug use, as well as poor diet and unprotected sex, among other factors. In other words, the majority of deaths stem from doing stupid things to ourselves.

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