Interesting Body Facts!
• 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with :new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!
• In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard off the ground.
• Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.
• In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
• The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.
• The world's first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.
• There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
• In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
• Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
• Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. :
• Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.
• Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
• Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
• You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
• Every two thousand frowns :creates one wrinkle.
• The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
• The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• The average human's heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime.
• The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in :their lifetime.
• You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
• The average human body contains enough Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
• Among the first known "dentists" of the world were the Etruscans.
• In 700 BC they carved false teeth from the teeth of various mammals and produced partial bridgework good enough to eat with.
• A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
• If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body.
• According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.
• Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life. :
• When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.
• Only humans and horses have hymens.
• The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
• Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. :
• One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world's telephones put together. THE TYANA TABLOID : 2 APRIL 2000
• We have a a whole pharmacy within us. We can create any drug inside us.
• If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles
• Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly - we ,make a skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!
(From Deepak Chopra's, Magical Mind Magical Body')Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails?
• Babies are born with 300 bones - adults have 206
• Eyelashes last about 150 days
• The heart circulates your blood through your body about 1,000 times each day
• You make about half a quart (500ml) of spit each day
• The smallest bone in your body is in your ears
• Your blood has the same amount of salt in it as the ocean does
• A sneeze blows air out of your nose at 100 miles per hour
• You are taller in the morning than you are at night
• Humans are the only animals that cry when upset
• Many more boys are color blind than girls are
• Children have more taste buds than adults
• Your lungs are the only organs in your body that float
• Food spends up to 6 hours in the stomach being digested
• Your eyeballs are actually part of your brain
• Bones are 4 times stronger than concrete
• The largest muscle in your body is the one you are sitting on