Learn some tips and trivia and other health issues and understand how the human body works.

General Topic

1. Human milk is easier for babies to digest than other milk
2. Breastfed children are less likely to be obese later in life.
3. For moms, breastfeeding reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancer and osteoporosis.
4. Mothers who breastfeed lose more weight than those that do not.
5. Breastfeeding helps the uterus shrink to its pre-pregnancy state.
6. Employees who smoke are 50% more likely to be hospitalized, have 2 times more job-related accidents, and have absenteeism rates approximately 50% higher than non-smokers.
7. People who smoked an average of 1 or more packs of cigarettes per day had 118% higher medical expenses than non-smokers.
8. Studies show that people on fad diets fail to reach their weight loss goals. What’s more, those that do are more likely to put the weight back on.
9. The number of fat cells in your body remains the same throughout adulthood.
10. Over the course of a year, about 10% of those fat cells die. Unfortunately, our bodies are quick to replace them.
11. Only proper eating habits and regular exercise are effective at shrinking those fat cells to keep you trim and lean.
12. Liposuction doesn’t lower your risk of obesity related health problems. The surgery only removes fat from beneath the skin, not from around vital organs where it poses the most danger.
13. Obesity is more inheritable than schizophrenia, high blood pressure, and alcoholism.
14. Trans Fatty Acids (TFA’s) increase belly and body fat, increase bad cholesterol, levels diabetes risk, trigger inflammation, cause metabolic dysfunction and weaken immunity.
15. Studies show that a 20 minute nap can help improve alertness, boost your mood and also increase productivity.
16. In a 6 year study of Greek adults, researchers found that those who took naps at least 3 times a week had a 37% lower risk of heart related death.
17. Headaches are known medically as “Cephalagia”
18. Headaches are commonly caused by mild dehydration.
19. Headaches can also occur as migraine headache, cluster headache or sinus headaches.
20. Studies show that a typical worker’s desk has hundreds of times more bacteria than a public toilet seat. Toilet seats have an average of 49 germs per sq. inch, while an office desktop can have as much as 21,000 per sq. inch.
21. A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
22. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you’ll feel thirsty. If it’s reduced by 10%, you’ll die.
23. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath
24. Women blink nearly twice as much as men
25. More people are allergic to cow’s milk than any other food
26. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open
27. 259200 people die every day
28. An average person takes in 21,600 breaths per day. Our body requires 88 pounds of oxygen per day. Sighing or yawning is a sign that you are not getting enough oxygen.
29. Dream lately? Scientists say the higher your IQ, the more you dream.
30. Benefits of quitting the habit of smoking:- Your breath smells better- Your stained teeth get whiter- The odor in your clothes and hair goes away- Yellow fingers and nails disappear- Food tastes better- Sense of smell returns to normal- You’re no longer out of breath

Heart and Brain

1. The human brain is made up of about 70% fat.
2. Recent studies indicate a 32% higher risk of heart attack or heart disease death linked to an increased Trans Fatty Acids (TFA) consumption.
3. Even small consumptions of Trans Fatty Acids’s (TFA) 2% of total energy intake is consistently linked to coronary heart disease.
4. Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day.
5. Although brain is responsible for registering pain in the body, the brain itself has no pain receptors and feels no pain.
6. The human brain is estimated to hold more than 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica
7. The image of a light bulb above the head when you have an idea is right on point. The brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt light bulb.
8. More electrical impulses are generated in one day by a single human brain than by all the telephones in the world
9. There are over 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the brain. Stretched out, they would circle the earth more than 4 times
10. The human brain is estimated to produce 70,000 different thoughts on an average day.

Mouth, Eyes, Nose and Ears

1. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
2. 1.7 litres of saliva is produced each day
3. The less you salivate, the more susceptible you are to tooth decay. Saliva helps prevent harmful bacteria from thriving.
4. By the time you reach age 60, you have a 25% chance of losing all your teeth.
5. The reason why food and drinks taste bad after you brush your teeth is because a chemical in toothpaste, SLS affects the taste receptors on your tongue. It dulls the receptors that recognize sweetness and enhances the receptors that recognize bitterness. This drastically alters the taste of most foods, especially sweet and bitter ones   

 Hair and Fingernails

1. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. If the average man never shaved, his beard would grow to over 30 feet in his lifetime.
2. Each day you lose between 6-100 strands of hair, unless you are already bald.
3. Women’s hair is half the diameter of men’s hair which is why men have coarser hair than women
4. Hair and nails do not continue to grow after death. The reason they appear longer is because the skin dehydrates, it pulls back from the nail bed and scalp
5. Fingernails grow 4 times faster than toe nails, and the nails that are used most frequently grow the fastest.
6. Human hair is indestructible. Human hair decays at an extremely slow rate and cannot be destroyed by cold, change of climate, water or other natural forces, and is resistant to many acids and corrosive chemicals.
7. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Skin

1. If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds

Hands and Feet

1. Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
2. Human foot is a biological miracle: strong, flexible and built to support hundreds of tons of pressure and withstand the tremendous forces of everyday living.
3. About 10% to 11% of the world’s population is left-handed
4. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Muscles and Bones

1. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.