- Did you walk, drink water, or breathe today?
Wow, you're a risk taker!
This might shock you, but some of the most common things
that we do on a daily basis
are actually the things that are most likely to kill us,
and because we do these things so often,
we let our guard down,
which means that simple things like breathing
could actually end your life.
These are 10 things you do every day that can kil you.
Number one is sleeping,
for the record, I hope this doesn't ruin
your ability to sleep in.
Now, I know what most of you are thinking:
sleeping is amazing.
You get to dream, rest up, and snuggle, snuggle, snuggle.
But it's true, there are a number of ways
that being asleep can kill you.
First are the obvious ones.
Like if you're operating a vehicle when sleep occurs
or sleepwalking into very dangerous situations.
But the less obvious one is the alarming statistic
that 450 people die every year from falling out of bed.
Imagine just for one second
that you're dreaming about flying
with your new robot best friend,
and the next, you're dead on the floor.
And newborn infants are especially at risk while sleeping
due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS,
which usually occurs while the little ones
are snoozing peacefully in their cribs.
When you lay down tonight for your precious sleep,
just remember to tuck yourself in real tight
and try not to roll around too much.
Number two is waking.
Of course walking is healthy and whatnot,
but sometimes it's also death waiting to happen.
In 2011, there were over 4,430 pedestrian deaths
in the United States alone,
hundreds more than previous years,
and that number is estimated to be even higher now.
Research shows that distracted walking is the culprit,
such as while texting,
which sent over 1500 people to the hospital each year
just in the state of Ohio alone.
Additional ways walking can kill you include
falling into open manholes,
which can actually suffocate you with toxic gases
and the effects of weather.
But if you're really unlucky,
you can be smacked out of existence
by an out of control vehicle while walking on the sidewalk,
or ended expectedly by a piece of falling debris.
Oh, but Matt, that would never happen,
that's like piano's falling on cartoon characteristics,
that's not real life.
It is, for instance, in Russia,
100 people die every year while being outside
due to falling icicles,
nature's murder tool that stabs you
and then melts away with no traces.
Enjoy your walk tomorrow.
Number three is buying snacks from vending machines.
Death can also be delicious.
Have you ever seen that little image
on the side of a vending machine
of that cartoon figure being crushed
by a similar looking machine?
Have you ever wondered why?
Well, it turns out that since many machines are top heavy,
they only need to be tipped over a small amount
before falling completely.
But even with the little warning sticker
that shows the stick man
in the process of being brutally squished,
13 people die every year from being crushed to death
while trying to get a snack.
And if you aren't crushed to death instantly
when the machine topples on you,
remember there's a massive wave of embarrassment
and grief to deal with
as you lie trapped under the heavy snack-filled dispenser.
Then there's the recovery afterwards, which also sucks.
Just think about that next time
before you take sweet revenge
on the company vending machine
for refusing to fully drop your cheese puffs.
Number for is playing with kids.
Locking up ammunition is key, especially in America,
because kids often think guns are toys,
and statistically, at least once a week,
a young child shoots someone with a gun.
Maybe it's your gun
or maybe they got it at a friend's house,
but either way, these injuries and deaths
can be avoided.
Other common methods of death by childish fun
include accidents while playing running games,
choking on toys such as plastic food at tea parties,
and having the amazing sand castle
you built as a family collapse on you.
And yeah, that last one has happened.
Playing hide and seek with your kids
can also lead them to getting into places
they generally shouldn't be.
Creative young hiders like unorthodox hiding places
that adults would never this to look in,
like the cupboard under the sink,
where all the household chemicals are stored.
And then there's something really radical
like the freezer, washing machine or dryer.
Oh, this laundry's really loud today.
Kids have very little awareness
of their own mortality or yours for that matter,
so be careful.
Number five is wearing a scarf.
On September 14th, 1927, dancer Isadora Duncan
was cruising along,
sitting in the passenger seat of a sports car
as it departed down a long, nice country road.
Enjoying the rushing air from the topless vehicle
while she was in France,
things quickly went bad for Isadora
when the extravagant
and unnecessarily long scarf she was wearing
caught in the wheel spokes in the car's rear axle.
Suddenly tightening, the scarf strangled her
and launched her backwards by he neck,
not only breaking it
but sending her flying out of the vehicle
and onto the road where the impact killed her immediately.
Pretty horrifying for someone expecting
to just relax on a leisurely drive.
Wearing scarves around any sort of rotary machinery
or car has strangled many people to death,
including things like wheels,
bikes, or even escalators.
Now, although her case was an anomaly,
it doesn't mean it can't happen to you.
Just stay away from moving stuff.
Number six is drinking water.
Refreshing yourself with a cold glass of water
can kill you in a number of different ways.
First, drinking ice water actually slows your heart rate.
The temperature messes with nerves in your body
that mistakenly attempt to protect you
by slowing your heart.
Additionally, there are a number of chemicals
in both tap water and bottled water
that can do serious internal damage
if you expose yourself to a lot of it.
And finally, drinking too much water
can actually kill you,
so be careful how many cups you have.
An example from 2007 was when 28-year-old Jennifer Strange
died in California after competing
in a water drinking contest
and suffered water intoxication.
A study done by the America Chemistry Society
found that drinking just six liters of water
could kill someone that weighs 165 pounds or less.
When too much water is ingested,
the kidney's simply can't keep up
with flushing it out,
and it starts to get absorbed by the cells,
which swell up.
If too many cells in your brain swell up, you die.
Just a little bit.
Number seven are elevators.
Some of y'all are about to gain a phobia.
Whether it's an elevator, an escalator,
or even just going up plain old stairs,
going up to another floor is more dangerous
than you might think.
Let's start with escalators,
the moving steps that injure more than 2100 children
and 2600 seniors every year.
Then there are elevators which are over 20 times
safer than escalators,
but still aren't the safest way
to get to the next floor,
considering that it's a heavy, enclosed box on a rope
that hoists you up many stories inside a narrow shaft.
Reports show that 26 people lose their lives in elevators
just in the United States every year.
Oh, and if you're an elevator worker, be extra careful.
Elevator workers who fall down shafts,
get hit by counterweights,
or get caught and maimed in the mechanisms,
account for another 14 deaths that happen every year.
As for the stairs, over 12,000 people die
every year in the United States
due to falling down them.
It seems like no matter how you get
from one floor to another,
you'd best watch your step 'cause you might die.
Number eight is filling a prescription.
According to the Institute of Medicine,
an estimated 44,000 people die annually
in the United States due to medical errors.
Over 7,000 of these preventable deaths
are attributed to prescriptions
being issued with sloppy handwriting,
leading some patients to get medications
that either react negatively
with the medication they're already taking,
or might contain a chemical that they're allergic to.
And don't forget, your doctor's human,
so he might just be having an off day,
or could simply make an error in judgment
with your diagnosis.
That could easily send you back to the hospital
after using your prescription
with even more issues that you had before.
This is a good time to point out
that you should always talk in detail to your pharmacist
or doctor about what drugs you're taking.
These guys don't just sell you drugs,
they just happen to know a thing or two about them, too.
Plus, doing your own research on prescribed drugs
doesn't hurt either.
In fact, it could save your life.
Number nine is breathing.
(rapid breathing)
Okay, take a second and take a deep breath,
and you could have died.
Yep, even breathing can bring the reaper
sooner that you would like to know.
While the air outside can be full of toxins
like smoke, exhaust from vehicles and pollution,
it's actually the air inside your home
that can cause you the most damage.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency,
the air in people's homes
can be two to five times more polluted
than the air outside.
This is because of things like plants,
cleaning products, paint, and decomposing garbage
in our garbage cans
putting volatile, organic compounds in our air.
These compounds can deal damage to our kidneys,
liver, and central nervous system,
and have been linked to certain cancers.
So open your windows
and let in some of that less polluted air
so that it can circulate through your home
whenever you can.
And also vacuum; I saw your place, your carpet's nasty.
And number 10 is being sedentary.
According to studies,
over 5.3 million people die each and every year
from being sedentary: 5.3 million!
Sedentary means staying in one place, barely moving
unless absolutely necessary.
Being still for long periods of time
can lead to cardiovascular disease and even cancer.
In fact, doing nothing at all
has a bigger risk of giving you a heart attack
than smoking does.
With the latest advancements in technology
and entertainment,
people have less and less reasons
to actually get up and put in physical effort
into their daily lives.
Ironically, I just ordered dinner,
I should probably go for a walk,
although that could kill me too.
Fitness and running around to hunt
is no longer an evolutionary requirement to survive
like our ancestors.
Now, since nothing is easy, and Netflix is a thing,
fitness is something you have to focus on
along with a good diet,
because if you don't,
it can have seriously disastrous effects on your body.
So I'm going to save your life right now
and tell you that if you've been binging on my videos
and haven't moved for a while, stand up.
Stand up right now, stretch a little bit,
do a little bit of this,
maybe just like that, it could save your life.
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