Encyclopedia Paranoiaca Author:Henry Beard, Christopher Cerf A comprehensive, informative, and utterly debilitating compendium of surprising ways you might die a horrible death at any moment?all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life?from master humorists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.Did you know bananas are radioactive, carrots cause blindness, and too many candlelight din... more »ners can lead to cancer? Bottled water is a veritable petri dish of biohazards, and cherries contain arsenic. Nearly 10,000 people are sent to the emergency room because of escalator accidents and despite what you?ve heard, farmers? markets may actually be less safe than grocery stores. In Encyclopedia Paranoiaca, Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf show us that the things that we consider healthy may actually be harmful and stuff we thought was harmless is anything but?drinking straws, flip flops, skinny jeans, even a day at the beach. Encyclopedia Paranoiaca is a comprehensive field guide to things you absolutely, positively must not eat, drink, wear, take, grow, make, buy, use, or do, including an awful lot of toxic, lethal, horrible stuff that you thought was safe, good, or healthy; the shocking number of really bad people who are out to get you; and a whole host of hidden threats and looming dooms that make global warming and planetary plagues look like a walk in the park (with its high risk of skin cancer, broken bones, bee stings, allergic seizures, animal attacks, criminal assaults, and lightning strikes).« less