How Risky Is It?

12/14/2007

I think there's a little child in all of us and we all too often forget to let the child out to play.
Donna A. Favors

In this health conscious age we are all tempted from time to time to take shortcuts in our health routines. Real Simple magazine (December 2007; www.realsimple.com) has spelled out the relative risk of various common shortcuts by rating them on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 indicating there may be serious health consequences to this choice (the article, "How Risky Is It?" spells out the logic behind each rating):

5 - Wearing disposable contact lenses longer than recommended
1 - Going to bed without brushing your teeth
4 - Popping one of your husband's sleeping pills
2 - Going barefoot in the gym shower
5 - Not finishing a course of antibiotics
1 - Trying on pierced earrings in the store
2 - Eating food past its expiration date
5 - Eating unwashed fruit
1 - Waiting a few years between physicals
3 - Swallowing an extra pill if a headache won't go away

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