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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Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
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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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Brain scans show that people who view photos of a beloved experience an activation of the caudate - the part of the brain involving cravings.
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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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