There are people among us with known allergies to various food components. Eating out means gambling with life for these people. Yet, they keep doing it and trusting the waiter and the chef to take care the served food is without the fatal allergens.
Every now and then we read and hear about allergy caused tragedies. The most recent one - the death of a 22 year old israeli allergic to milk , on a trip in Colombia. News like this leave me hurting inside and speechless.
I remember well when my father (no allergies) was offered to work for a while after retirement. He consulted his family doctor who was not happy about it because of the daily commute involved. 'But I don't drive, just sit on the bus chair', he said. 'Well, that's it', she replied. 'You sit, and sitting is bad for your high blood pressure'.
His work was mostly physical , albeit of a light nature. She was not worried by that, only about his daily commute to and fro work.
Go figure! Millions sit in cars and drive for hours, and she made a fuss over less than a two hours commute (40 min to, 40 min. fro)! She was referring, however, to an existing health condition (high blood pressure) of a person at a certain age (retirement age) when things might deteriorate and become a kind of gambling with life (she did use the phrase 'don't gamble with your life').
We tend to philosophically say 'All of life is a gamble'. Still, by taking the right measures, we can minimize, avoid, prevent - in fact, control - to a certain extent, the gambling side of life.