7 Weird Ways to Die Young!
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What advice would you give to a non married, pessimistic pop star who has recently lost weight and lowered their cholesterol level by taking vitamin supplements?
Easy - stay in bed until after lunch of course!
We all know lots of tips about staying healthy and get advice from every TV chat show and billboard. But check out these weird facts if you want to (or want not to ) die young!
Here’s how to make sure you die at an early age - hint… the more of these tips you follow the better (or worse, depends how you look at it).
- Remain pessimistic at all times. A 70-year long study of personality traits shows that pessimism is a risk factor for early death, especially among men. Pessimism can also be linked to increased risk for sudden death from accidents or violence. Compared with individuals with a more cheerful and optimistic outlook, pessimists were more likely to die from accidents and violence (including suicide). A pessimistic way of seeing the world in which people catastrophize about bad events, predicts untimely death decades later. So cheer up - you’ll be dead soon!
- Eat too many vitamins. Scientists at Copenhagen University found that people taking supplements which contained vitamins A and E and beta carotene were found to have a five per cent greater risk of dying than those who were not taking them. The research analysed the results of several studies involving over 180,000 people into the benefits of vitamins A, E, and C, along with beta carotene and selenium. Another Big Mac anyone?
- Become a famous popstar. Rock and pop stars are more than twice as likely as the rest of the population to die an early death. The findings are based on more than 1,050 North American and European musicians and singers who shot to fame between 1956 and 1999. All the musicians studied were featured in the All Time Top 1,000 albums, selected in 2000. The albums chosen covered rock, punk, rap, R&B, electronica and new age genres. How long the pop stars survived once they had achieved chart success and become famous was compared with the expected longevity of the general population. In all, 100 stars died early between 1956 and 2005. The average age of death was 42 for North American stars and 35 for European stars. When compared with the rest of the population in the U.K. and the U.S., rock and pop stars were about twice as likely to die early and even more likely to do so within five years of becoming famous.
- Lose weight too quickly. Overweight people who are otherwise healthy may increase their risk of dying by intentionally losing weight, according to provocative research involving twins in Finland. The research found that those who were overweight who lost weight on purpose were about 86 percent more likely to die for any reason over the next 18 years compared with those whose weight remained stable. Chocolate cake - yes please !
- Watch your diet too closely. Although a high cholesterol level is bad for you - bizarrely enough, a low cholesterol is worse. A huge study in Austria showed that high cholesterol was predictive of death from coronary heart disease but low cholesterol results in increased all-cause mortality. Low cholesterol showed significant associations with death from cancer, liver diseases, and mental diseases.
- Stay single. People who don’t get married are much more likely to die young. A large research study showed some amazing findings. The researchers found that never-married people, compared with their married peers, are five times more likely to die of infectious disease, twice as likely to die in accidents, homicides, or suicides and nearly forty percent more likely to die of heart disease
- Get up too early in the morning. It’s official (hurray) - rising before 5 a.m. is very bad for your health. A study conducted in Japan has found that early risers have a higher risk of medical conditions that can lead to heart attack and stroke. People who habitually rose before 5 a.m. had 1.7 times greater risk of high blood pressure and were twice as likely to develop hardening of the arteries as those who got up 2 to 3 hours later, researchers found.
So - what should you do with this information if you want a long life? It’s a no brainer really - stay in bed all day with your partner, eating junk food and slobbing out while avoiding vitamins or healthy stuff at all costs. Stay cheerful and don’t be seduced by a large deal from the recording industry. Stick to all that and you’ll live forever…. how cool a life would that be?
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