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Insurers increasingly mandate helmets at events and facilities. Yet millions choose not to wear one and suffer no ill consequence during a lifetime of riding. Most traumatic brain injuries result from falling or being tossed off a horse, but some happen while on the ground (like being kicked in the head).Most injuries happen in younger and less experienced riders many occur when working with a young horse.You’re four times more likely to die while riding if you don’t have a helmet.

Head injuries make up 23 percent of riding injuries resulting in Emergency Room visits.

Here are nuggets from several research projects aimed at riding and hurting your head: Likewise, evidence overwhelmingly supports wearing a helmet to protect oneself from head injury while horse riding. Society chooses tan over pale nearly every time. But there are lots of tans folks out there.

People get skin cancer and die from frequenting tanning booths and eschewing sunscreen. This year, the World Health Organization added tanning booths to the list of the most dangerous forms of cancer-causing radiation.

Culture and vanity vie against common sense and science in plenty of our personal decisions.