Health Facts

    Health Facts

    Regularly updated list of health and body facts. Learn things about your body and health that you didn't know. Featuring a range of topics, including the human body, medical science, and psychology.

    If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
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    By weight, Bone is five times stronger than steel.
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    It is possible for you to survive even after the removal of the spleen, the stomach, one kidney, one lung, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, and almost every organ from the pelvic and groin area.
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    20 minutes after smoking a cigarette, blood pressure drops to normal.
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    Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) stillbirths and premature labor.
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    Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
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    Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
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    A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
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    A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
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    One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.
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    Gin is a mild diuretic which helps the body get rid of excessive fluid. Thus, it can reduce problems such as menstrual bloating.
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    It has been shown that caffeine causes headaches when stopped suddenly and can cause morning headaches that are relieved by a dose of caffeine.
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    The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
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    Scientists estimate that laughing 100 times is equivalent to a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine.
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    On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes from stroke.
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    After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
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    10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
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    The brain can stay alive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen. After that cells begin die.
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