Health Facts

Tags: Heart, Lifespan, Mammal, Health, Interesting, Longevity

Fact Page: The lifespan of mammals is about 1 and a half billion heartbeats.
Date Added: 2012-05-08 04:32:41
Fact Category: Animal Fact

Tags: Sleep, Tiredness, Drink, Wine, Alcohol, Body, Human Body, Health, Interesting

Fact Page: Staying awake for 17 hours is the same for your body as drinking 2 glasses of wine.
Date Added: 2012-04-24 13:03:01
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Food, McDonald's, Exercise, Health

Fact Page: You would have to walk for seven hours straight to burn off a Super Sized Coke, fry and Big Mac.
Date Added: 2012-04-01 19:51:53
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Warmth, Cold, Temperature, Body Temperature, Body, Human Body, Health, Hunger, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: If you are cold you are more likely to be hungry because you use energy to keep warm.
Date Added: 2012-03-07 00:30:46
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: High Heels, Women, Woman, Men, Men Vs Women, Male Vs Female, Lifestyle, Foot, Health, Human, Human Body, Body

Fact Page: Women have about four times as many foot problems as men; lifelong patterns of wearing high heels often are the culprit.
Date Added: 2012-03-03 08:36:00
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Stress, Heart, Love, Romance, Interesting, Fascinating, Health, Relationship

Fact Page: It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
Date Added: 2012-02-22 12:29:42
Fact Category: Health Fact

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
Fact Category: Health Fact

False teeth are often radioactive. Approximately 1 million Americans wear some form of denture; half of these dentures are made of a porcelain compound laced with minute amounts of uranium to stimulate fluorescence. Without the uranium additive, the dentures would be a dull green color when seen under artificial light.

Tags: Radioactive, Radioactivity, Uranium, Teeth, Denture, Dental, Oral, Dentist, Health, Strange

Fact Page: False teeth are often minutely radioactive.
Date Added: 2011-10-11 05:05:47
Fact Category: Weird Fact

Tags: Organ, Health, Spleen, Pelvis, Groin, Stomach, Kidney, Lung, Intestines, Liver, Gross, Human, Body

Fact Page: 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.
Date Added: 2011-10-08 11:28:23
Fact Category: Health Fact

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
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Smoking, Cigarette, Health, Chemical, Cancer

Fact Page: Cigarette smoke contains 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which cause cancer.
Date Added: 2011-10-07 13:51:52
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Chocolate, Kissing, Kiss, Passion, Heart, Brain, Health, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:56:22
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, Heart Disease, Heart, Health, Flavonoids, Food, Interesting

Fact Page: Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids which help reduced the risk of heart disease.
Date Added: 2011-10-05 10:54:31
Fact Category: Food and Drink Fact

Tags: Water, Food, Human, Body, People, Health

Fact Page: A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
Date Added: 2011-09-29 17:01:16
Fact Category: Health Fact

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
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Immunity, Immune System, Stress, Hormone, Epinephrine, Cortisol, Laughing, Laughter, Body, Health

Fact Page: The levels of two stress hormones, cortisol and epinephrine which suppress the body's immune system, will actually drop after a dose of laughter.
Date Added: 2011-09-28 07:17:08
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Heart, Body, Blood, Human, Human Body, Lifetime, Health

Fact Page: You heart will pump about 400 liters or about 800 quarts in its lifetime.
Date Added: 2011-06-20 15:41:58
Fact Category: Health Fact

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
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Muscle, Exercise, Work Out, Body Building, Health, Human, Body, Human Body

Fact Page: It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.
Date Added: 2011-02-03 08:54:02
Fact Category: Health Fact

Tags: Cancer, Lung, Lung Cancer, Marlboro, Tobacco, Smoking, Cigarette, Health, Company, Business

Fact Page: The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
Date Added: 2011-02-01 08:17:45
Fact Category: Business Fact