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#1 - Texting While You Walk/Drive

Texting while you’re taking a walk or driving might not affect your health in any way, but it can certainly be deadly if you don’t pay enough attention to your surroundings. A recent study has shown that people who are crossing an intersection while texting were around four times less likely to look before traversing, which increases the risk of being hit by a vehicle, especially if the driver is texting as well. To summarize – texting is dangerous while you’re performing tasks that demand your maximum concentration.

#2 – Sitting in Front...

#1 Ablutophobia

Ablutophobia is the fear of washing, bathing or cleaning. It is a situational specific phobia and tends to be more common in children and women than in men. It is a relatively uncommon phobia but is serious because in the most extreme can lead to a complete fear of all types of washing. The cause of the phobia can vary but usually involves some traumatic childhood incident involving water and bathing and it can surface much later in life, sometimes in to adulthood. Left unchecked, sufferers can go weeks or months without washing, which can lead to skin infections,...

You may have heard the saying that “laughter is the best medicine.” Well, research has shown time and time again that laughter is great for your health – but that’s just one of seven reasons why you should laugh more…

Reason 1 – Strong Medicine for Mind & Body

Laughter is an amazing source of physical and emotional healing. Physically, laughter improves deep breathing, blood flow and boosts your immunity. Emotionally, finding the humor in even the most difficult things we face can be a powerful step to bringing some light into what can often seem a depressing situation...

#1 – Eating Noisily

At some point in your life, you’ve probably had to endure the noisy eater who manages to eat his food in a manner not dissimilar to a pig slurping on its swill. Oblivious to his fellow diners, he munches, crunches, slurps and swallows the food set before him for all to hear while you try to enjoy your own. But you can’t. Of course, you’d love to politely point out his immensely annoying eating habits but you know you’re not going to. Oh no, you’re going to suffer in silence until he finishes every last morsel on place plate. Arghh!

#2 – Not Thanking You...