Health Facts

Tags: Woman, Sense of Smell, Nose

Fact Page: Women have a better sense of smell than men.
Date Added: 2011-01-06 13:36:49
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Tags: Sex, Calorie, Fat, Weight

Fact Page: Sex burns about 360 calories per hour.
Date Added: 2011-05-29 09:57:18
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Tags: Cell, Health, Human Body, Human, Female Egg, Female, Male, Sperm, Interesting

Fact Page: The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
Date Added: 2011-02-01 13:52:26
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Tags: DNA, Health, Human, Human Body, Body, Interesting, Strange, Weird, Science

Fact Page: If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Date Added: 2012-01-15 05:11:07
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Tags: Health, Calorie, Calories, Weight, Exercise, Weird, Strange

Fact Page: Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
Date Added: 2011-10-10 21:16:14
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Tags: Blood, Blood Pressure, Heart, Health, Cigarette, Smoking

Fact Page: 20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
Date Added: 2011-10-07 14:01:17
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Tags: Smoking, Wrinkle, Skin, Health, Cigarette

Fact Page: Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
Date Added: 2011-10-07 13:55:46
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Tags: Human, Body, Hair, Average, Interesting

Fact Page: A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
Date Added: 2011-10-01 17:22:24
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Dr. Van Straten, M. The Benefits of Booze. The Express (London), July 23, 2002, Features, p. 35.

Tags: Inflammation, Alcohol, Drink, Health

Fact Page: One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.
Date Added: 2011-09-29 10:55:15
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Tags: Caffeine, Coffee, Tea, Headache, Addiction

Fact Page: It has been shown that caffeine causes headaches when stopped suddenly and can cause morning headaches that are relieved by a dose of caffeine.
Date Added: 2011-09-28 07:18:32
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Tags: Rowing Machine, Exercise, Scientist, Statistical, Laugh, Laughing

Fact Page: Scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine.
Date Added: 2011-09-28 07:15:46
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Tags: Death, United States, USA, Stroke, Sad, Health, Average, Statistic, Statistical

Fact Page: On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
Date Added: 2011-09-01 17:02:39
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Tags: Brain, Human, Aging, Age

Fact Page: After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
Date Added: 2011-08-17 08:32:33
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Tags: Brain, Oxygen

Fact Page: The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
Date Added: 2011-08-17 08:31:10
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When a woman has sex, she produces amounts of the hormone estrogen, which gives a shine to the hair and a smoothness to the skin. Increased blood flow means a flush of the cheek and even a pout of the lips. And because sex also increases the production of collagen, having sex can ward off age spots and sagging. Some even call sex the real fountain of youth.

Tags: Sex, Woman, Aging, Collagen, Estrogen, Hormone, Attraction, Human

Fact Page: Having sex can make a woman look younger and more attractive due to the release of estrogen and collagen.
Date Added: 2011-06-25 10:36:47
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Tags: Human, Brain, Energy, Light Bulb, Body, Human Body

Fact Page: The human brain uses approximately as much energy as a 10 watt light bulb.
Date Added: 2011-06-19 10:43:12
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Each cell in the human body contains 46 chromosomes (or 46 DNA molecules). If you lined up those DNA molecules end to end, a single cell would contain six feet of DNA! If the human body is made of about 100 trillion cells, each of which contains six feet of DNA, our bodies contain more than a billion miles of DNA!

Tags: Body, Human, Human Body, DNA, Science, Health, People

Fact Page: The human body contains over a billion miles of DNA.
Date Added: 2011-06-07 19:44:40
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Tags: Finger, Lips, Skin, Sensitivity

Fact Page: The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your fingertips.
Date Added: 2011-05-18 21:20:10
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Tags: Pain, Sound, Hearing, Ear, Human

Fact Page: Pain occurs when sounds are above 130 db.
Date Added: 2011-04-26 09:37:18
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Tags: Fatigue, Sleep, Tiredness, Water, Interesting, Health

Fact Page: Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Date Added: 2011-04-19 02:41:04
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Tags: African-American, HIV, AIDS, Health, Illness, United States, USA, America, Black, Population

Fact Page: Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.
Date Added: 2011-04-09 16:10:16
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Tags: Sex, Orgasm, Blue, Brain, Human, Interesting

Fact Page: Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
Date Added: 2011-04-05 07:32:14
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Tags: Sperm, Sex, Human Body, Body

Fact Page: The average sperm cell swims at 8 inches per hour.
Date Added: 2011-04-02 10:17:53
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