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Cigarettes, secondhand smoke, teeth, and extreme diets. Read these as everyday upkeep, not as a diagnosis or a treatment plan.
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People with anorexia nervosa died at about 5.9 times the rate of their peers. Long stretches of severe dieting made an eating disorder much more likely. Moving more is the safer side of weight control.
A U.S. study reported that people who kept smoking lived more than 10 years less, on average, than people who never smoked. Quitting before 40 avoided most of the extra risk of death from continuing.
About 600,000 deaths in 2004 were attributed to secondhand smoke, and roughly 3 in 10 of those deaths were children. Home is where people breathe it the longest.
A Japanese follow-up found slightly fewer deaths among people who used floss or an interdental brush. Older adults with few teeth left were on the higher-death side. That does not prove the floss caused the difference.