|
Amazing facts about health & body ( Part- II )
|
|
|
By:
|
asha
|
|
Mood:
|
Happy
|
|
Date:
|
01/22/2008 06:10:17
|
|
Music:
|
None
|
|
|
- A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on
average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
- A women from Berlin Germany
has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
- A world record 328 pound ovarian cyst was removed from a
woman in Galveston, Texas, in 1905.
- A yawn usually lasts for approximately six
seconds.
- About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when
they are exposed to light.
- According to the American Institute of Stress, job
stress approximately costs the U.S. industry over $300
billion dollars per year.
- After twenty-seven years, Betty Rubble made her debut as
a Flintstones Vitamin in 1996.
- Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles
per hour when a person sneezes.
- Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both
epileptic.
- An adult esophagus can range from 10 to 14 inches in
length and is one inch in diameter.
- An average adult produces about half a litre of
flatulent gas per day, resulting in an average of about fourteen
occurrences of flatulence a day.
- Approximately 1-2 calorie are burned a minute while
watching T.V.
- Approximately 25,000 workers died during the building of
the Panama Canal and approximately 20,000
of them contracted malaria and yellow fever.
- Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of
eighteen. - At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States
are attributed to smoking.
- At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a
person's emotions, Babies that are exposed to cats and dogs in their first
year of life have a lower chance of developing allergies when they grow
older.
- Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is
approximately six to eight weeks old.
- Being lactose intolerant can cause chronic flatulence.
- Between 12%-15% of the population is left-handed.
- Between 1997-2002, there was an increase of 228% in
cosmetic procedures in the United
States.
- Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making
your feces a brownish, green colour.
- Brain damage will only occur if a fever goes above 107.6
degrees farenheit.
- By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average
person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
- Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15
minutes.
- Children grow faster in the springtime than any other
season during the year.
|
|
|
|
MEMBERS COMMENTS
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
