Interestings Health Facts
Here are some interesting health facts:
- Women have a better sense of smell than me
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- Each person has about 4 pounds of bacteria living inside of his/her body.
- A human record of staying awake is 11 days.
- The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
- Women blink about twice as often as men.
- The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
- You have no sense of smell when you’re sleeping.
- When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
- A sneeze can travel up to 100 mph.
- Cussing could be good for your health because it is cathartic.
- Dogs can sense cancer and low blood sugar.
- Sex burns about 360 calories per hour.
- By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.
- Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
- One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.
- Scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine.
- A man’s beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
- The body replaces 1 billion cells ever hour.
- The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.
- Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound – over a thousand feet per second!
- After age 30, the brain begins to lose about 50,000 neurons per day – shrinking the brain .25% each year.
- Panophobia is the fear of everything.
- Motorists who talk on cell phones are more impaired than drunk drivers with blood-alcohol levels exceeding .08!
- Most lipstick contains fish scales.
- Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.
- Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different!
- If your stomach didn’t produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
- If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, and fail to receive medical attention, you still have a 50% chance of survival.
- Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!
- Scientists say the higher your I.Q. The more you dream.
- It is not possible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Kissing can reduce tooth decay.
- About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.
- Lack of sleep can reduce your ability to fight infections.
- The first contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
- Listening to music is good for digestion.
- There are about 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
- If your liver stopped working, you’d die within 24 hours.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.