5 Healthy Things That Can Actually Be Deadly

Yoga

Yoga is associated with a meditative, relaxing activity that is safe and relatively low-risk. Overstretching that causes muscles to tear, spasm, or become pulled can be very common within yoga practitioners. As early as 1972 there was a study from Oxford neurophysiologist W. Ritchie Russell that argued some yoga postures could even threaten to cause strokes in young and healthy people with no previous medical issues. The first yoga practitioners would usually be sitting in a squatted or kneeled position rather than strapped to an office chair all day. One theory is that those who work in jobs that require little to no movement will be more susceptible to injury when taking part in yoga because their body is shocked by the transition from an inactive state to a sudden overstretch, which can be very damaging and can even cause death.