Let’s Play: What Scares You Most?

Swimming in the ocean and getting eaten by a shark?
Getting on an airplane, and it crashing down in flames?
Skydiving, and perhaps the parachute doesn’t open?
Being in a room filled with spiders, or even just one?
Eating a bacon covered donut, or whatever is your favorite?

Which one should you be most afraid of?

You guessed it, the donut (or any unhealthy food options in general).

Number of shark fatalities in United States per year on average – 6 to 8
Number of airplane fatalities per year in US – 349 in 2020, the last time a commercial airline carrying passengers crashed with fatalities was in 2001.
Number of skydiving fatalities on average about 15 people yearly.
Number of spider bite fatalities yearly – on average 7 in the USA.
Number of deaths due to unhealthy food choices – 678,000 yearly in the USA.

If you are like me and hundreds of other Americans and have had not the best food choices over the years, I urge you go get a screening done. Just because you feel fine and are what you consider a normal weight category doesn’t mean you are in perfect health. It is better to detect high cholesterol early so hopefully you can correct with diet and exercise; and that goes for anything, the sooner you discover health issues the easier and cheaper they are to correct. So, pick a day, call the doctor, put it on your calendar and go!

Resources:

https://petpedia.co/shark-attack-statistics/#:~:text=In%20contrast%2C%20an%20unprovoked%20attack,of%20six%20fatalities%20a%20year.