10 Absurd Things Women's Magazines Claim Are Going To Kill You

Yoga

Practicing yoga alone can be risky, as some accidents are due to the clumsiness of the individual. SelfMagazine tried to strike fear into their readers by sharing the account of a woman who slipped out of bed and fell on the floor while practicing yoga at home. She managed to drag her body to the phone and call for help, but it was later discovered that she had torn her left carotid, which resulted in a clot forming and traveling to her brain. Feeling betrayed by yoga, this woman quit the practice for a year but was eventually brave enough to return.

A neurologist says that it is possible to treat one of the carotid artery's layers by simply extending the neck a looking towards the sky. It is unlikely that it will happen, but it is also unwise to accuse a form of exercise as the cause of this accident.

Water Fountains

magazine published a story of a woman who, days after graduating from college, collapsed in a bookstore. She explains that she caught giardia - an infection in the small intestine - from drinking water from a fountain on her graduation day. Giardia is usually sorted out with a course of antibiotics, but the woman's doctor discovered that she had an immune deficiency and was lacking white blood cells.