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5 Healthy Things That Could Kill You

Before you get all smug about your devotion to yoga, brown rice and neti pots, find out how this so-called healthy stuff can actually hurt you

by Tiffanie Petett | 6 COMMENTS

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Yoga If all the tendon twisting, bone bending and muscle manipulating involved in yoga is any indication, yoga, as it turns out, can kill you. Whether it's back and neck trauma, blood clots, brain damage or even a stroke, yoga sent more than twice the number of people to the ER from 2001 to 2002. We're playing it safe and sticking to an all-Savasana (a.k.a. Lie-Down-and-Nap pose) practice for now.

Source: Cosmopolitan Magazine

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Unhealthy things that can't actually kill you: loaded chili cheese fries, whiskey and ginger on the rocks, a 72-hour Netflix binge.

Unhealthy things that can actually kill you: shark baiting, crystal meth, sawed-off shotguns, vodka (for breakfast, lunch, and dinner).

These are things we pretty much know intuitively, and we also know what's good for us. Right? Wrong. Brace yourselves for a slap in the face -- these five so-called healthy activities can be very, very bad for you. (It shocked the living greens out of us, too.)