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[+] 64 points 7 months ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Driving a car. Not necessarily your own life expectancy. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffic-injuries

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    Poor diet and exercise. Absolute top above everything else. Heart disease is the number one killer worldwide, and heart disease can be prevented in most people by a clean diet AND exercise. You need to do both, more of one doesn't make up for lack of the other.

    (Well, aside from doing objectively dangerous things, like using dangerous drugs, going insanely fast on a motorcycle, or playing Russian roulette every day.)

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Strange. Why is everyone posting all of my plans for the next 5 years?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Physical idleness, overeating, smoking, drinking. You can dodge a lot of the risks just by never getting fat, staying active and being moderate/sparing with food, drink, and drugs.

    Gluttony and sloth. I would also say wrath, being mad all the time is bad not just for those around you but also hard on your own body.

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  • [+] 12 points 7 months ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    I'm old enough that I get the colonoscopy done as routine care. The doctor I went to said that in her opinion, the starting age for those needs to be rolled back to about 30 and many people should have 5 year interval not 10. Because a lot of what ends up being cancer can just be removed easily and never turn into anything if caught early.

    I don't eat much junk and try to get enough fiber, so far so good. But I do think plastics in the environment are hard to avoid and problematic, and agree with that doctor. I go every 5 not 10.

    Drinking I do, one drink couple times a week. Gave up most of my diet coke drinking though, iced green tea unsweetened is also no calorie some caffeine and oh so refreshing, has been a good replacement.

    Everyone dies. I just want to feel good and healthy as long as possible. Good habits aren't really about living LONGER so much, they are about feeling good while alive.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I like riding my motorcycle

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    What do you ride? I see your sail boat, you got a picture of your bike too?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Hell yeah brutther I'm riding a Yamaha Super Tenere, gave up the liter bike after thinking OP's same question, here's a picture on some trails I had no business being on with those tires.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I'd say 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Getting tangled up in that whole stress trap is so innocuous that many people don't appreciate how bad it is to push it all to the point that an affluent household is 2 paychecks away from destitution. It's just some cultural thing that keeps people awake at night and to even address it with candor is verboten

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Smoking, drinking, and obesity

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)
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    Eating the normal highly processed foods (here in the USA) and parallel with that, not exercising

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Wingsuit flying.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There was some "research" done on this. https://xkcd.com/369/

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    smoking, drinking, cars (pollution etc)

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Riding a motorcycle, especially without proper gear.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Expecting, or pursuing the establishment of, human rights as a subjugate group or "subordinate" class.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Telling other people what they should NOT do.

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