Some interesting Physical Health Facts

• Because of today’s alarming obesity rates, this generation of children will be the first to live shorter lives than their parents. Scary!
• 1/3 of all cancers are preventable.
• Smokers can lose 1/3 of their everyday memory.
• 33% of those who drink four or more caffeinated beverages, such as soda or coffee, daily are put at a higher risk for sleep apnea
• Stress causes or complicates 90% of all diseases.
• There is an iPhone app that can actually fix back pain.
• Just adding movement into your daily routine can increase your level of fitness. Being sedentary is dangerous!
• On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than left-handed people.

• The adult human heart weighs about 10 oz.
• Out of the 206 bones in the human adult’s body, 106 are in the hands and feet.
• The amount of teenage cosmetic surgeries has nearly doubled in the USA between the years 1996 and 1998.
• During a sneeze, all of your bodily functions momentarily stop, even your heart.
• Over 40 million Americans have “chronic halitosis,” which is a condition causing bad breath that never goes away.
• There are 5 million scent receptors located within a human beings nose.
• Very high amounts of stress can actually stunt a person’s growth.
• Reading in dim light will not damage your eyes.
• Eating a meal with strong aromas will cause you to get fuller faster.
• The body’s largest tissue is skeletal muscle, which accounts for approximately 45% of body weight in men and 36% in women.
• Every single muscle fiber is thinner than a human hair strand, and can hold up to 1,000 times its own weight.
• There are at least six universal facial expressions. They are: happiness, sadness, disgust, fear, anger and surprise.
• The brain operates on about the same amount of power needed to light a 10-watt light bulb
• Every 36 hours the lining of a humans stomach is replaced.
• The approximate length of a human esophagus is 25 centimeters.
• A person that blushes easily is known as a erythrophobe.
• The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
• Electric eels were used in the first forms of electric shock therapy.
• The human liver performs over 500 functions.
• Every year, the human heart will beat approximately 35 million times.
• The human body can produce anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every day.
• 80% of the brain is water.