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6 Habits You Didn't Know Were Keeping You Alive

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
October 28, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 11:02
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Putting your kids in daycare with other germ-infested kids may have kept them from getting diseases like Leukemia - what that means is hyper-attentive mothers insisting you go through a space-age quarantine process before viewing their little cherub may be doing more young'uns harm than good.

And using your cell phone may be preventing Alzheimers.   4 more subtle habits keeping you alive at Cracked.

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