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Accidents often happen in what should be the safest of places. Remember when Health24 blogger Dinx broke her arm while attending a therapeutic water-aerobics class to help her recover from a back operation?

But a supervised swimming pool is not the only place you can have an unexpected accident – did you know that supermarkets can be fraught with peril? Read about supermarket disasters.

Here are 15 rules you should stick to if you want to stay safe and healthy. And on a more sobering note, read about these dumb ways to die.

Dinx also gives some smart tips and tricks on how to avoid being scammed on the Internet.

Why not start your own health blog?

(Joanne Hart, Health24, August 2009)

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