Grilled Food, 5 Healthy Things That Could Kill You

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Oh, you think you're soooo smart choosing blackened and grilled over crispy and fried? Guess what? Those char marks on your grilled chicken have been linked to heterocyclic amines (HCAs), a known carcinogen that forms when meat is cooked at high temperatures. Instead of ditching the summer BBQs, minimize your HCA intake by removing the skin on grilled chicken or cooking ribs, chicken, or beef low and slow (low-temperature, slow-cooking), the way real barbecue is made.

Source: Cosmopolitan Magazine

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Before you pop in your daily dose of "healthy pills," get this: vitamins A and E have been linked to increased mortality, including cancer and heart failure. These vitamins contain high levels of antioxidants, which may actually weaken our immune system.

Source: Cosmopolitan Magazine

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.)

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

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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

Grilled Food

Vitamins