50 Health Facts

50 Intersesting Health Facts

1. Dogs can sense cancer and low blood sugar.

2. Excessive cleanliness is bad for your health. A little bit of germs helps your body’s immune system.

3. The risk of getting a heart attack is higher on Mondays and during three days after your doctor diagnoses you with the flu or another respiratory disease.

4. Cussing could be good for your health because it is cathartic.

5. Washing your nose with salt water can help you avoid a lot of allergy symptoms.

6. People who enter their home through the back door by the kitchen eat 15% more than those who enter through the front door.

7. A lack of animal protein is bad for your brain.

8. Social Networking (facebook) is good for your memory.

9. The newest and most expensive drugs are not necessarily the healthiest.

10. People who eat at least 5 walnuts a week live on average 7 years longer because walnuts ability to prevent heart disease.

11. Almonds, avocado and rucola stimulate sexual desire and increase fertility.

12. A sneeze can travel up to 100 mph.

13. Each person has about 4 pounds of bacteria living inside of his/her body.

14. Overweight people spend an average of $485 more to clothing, $828 more for additional seating in an airplane and to $36 more on gasoline, than skinny people.

15. Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toenails.

16. Deep breathing gives you similar benefits as aerobics.

17. Smokers are four times more likely to complain about a feeling tired in the morning than non-smokers, and are 70% more likely to have hearing problems.

18. A human record of staying awake is 11 days.

19. Babies are born without kneecaps. They develop at around 2-6 year of age.

20. Your kitchen sink is dirtier than your bathtub.

21. Four out of five doctors don’t get enough exercise.

22. If you keep a food diary than you chances of being successful at losing weigh doubles.

23. Cigarette smoke that attaches itself you the smokers’hair and clothes and then spreads around the room increases the risk of cancer in children and pets.

24. Vitamins DO NOT protect from cancer and heart disease.

25. 25% of your bones are located in your feet.

26. Women blink about twice as often as men.

27. A toothbrush that is 6 feet within a toilet can get toilet bacteria from flushing.

28. About 400 different microbes live in the human body.

29. A person farts about 12 times a day.

30. Common pest such a roach, flea, and termite can be found inside most people’s bodies.

31. A human heart beats about 2.5 billion.

32. Smells received by the right nostril are registered more pleasant than from the left.

33. The body replaces 1 billion cells ever hour.

34. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

35. In Mesopotamia, a doctor was executed for the death of his patient.

36. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

37. During birth a human has about 300 bones in his/her body. As an adult it shrinks down to 206.

38. Some countries like Nepal use cow dung for medical purposes.

39. In the average lifetime a person will breathe in about 44 pounds of dust.

40. It is almost impossible to sneeze with your mouth opened.

41. Nearly 80 percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen at home.

42. Only 1% of bacteria cause disease.

43. Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second!

44. Only 1/20 babies are born on their due date.

45. Human sweat is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.

46. The average human body contains enough iron to make a small nail.

47. The male fetus is capable of attaining an erection during the last trimester.

48. People blink 25 times a minute.

49.You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping! 

50.When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.

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