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.
Dieters who sleep more take off more fat that those who sleep less.
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On average, women have always lived longer than men.
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Wearing tight pants can lead to impotence in men.
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Although men ARE more likely to suffer heart attacks, women are more likely to die within a year from having a heart attack.
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Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.
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Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
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The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.
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Your ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't.
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Every year your body replaces 98% of your atoms.
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There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles.
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The human brain has the capacity to store everything that you experience.
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On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
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It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
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The lifespan of a tastebud is ten days.
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According to one report, it would take 800 marijuana joints to kill a person - but the cause of death would be carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average, which is roughly the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.
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