10 Absurd Things Women's Magazines Claim Are Going To Kill You

Water Fountains

magazine published a story of a woman who, days after graduating from college, collapsed in a bookstore. She explains that she caught giardia - an infection in the small intestine - from drinking water from a fountain on her graduation day. Giardia is usually sorted out with a course of antibiotics, but the woman's doctor discovered that she had an immune deficiency and was lacking white blood cells.