Fascinating Health

Facts

• The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
• On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes.
• On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).
• If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
• A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
• Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
• A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
• The first human sex change took place in 1950 when Danish doctor Christian Hamburger operated on New Yorker George Jargensen, who became Christine Jargensen.
• Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.
• On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.
• Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
• We actually do not see with our eyes - we see with our brains. The eyes basically are the cameras of the brain. One-quarter of the brain is used to control the eyes.
• Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, suggested that a woman could enlarge her bust line by singing loudly and often.
• The muscle that lets your eye blink is the fastest muscle in your body. It allows you to blink 5 times a second. On average, you blink 15 000 times a day. Women blink twice as much as men.