STRANGELY ODD BUT MEDICAL FACTS

STRANGELY ODD BUT MEDICAL FACTS

• A passionate kiss uses 6.4 calories of energy

• During a kiss, as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged (beware)

• By age of 60,  most people have lost half of their taste buds

• You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on eachword in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations

• Laughing just twice a day can lower your blood pressure

• An adult heart weighs about 10 ounces

• It takes an interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech

•  A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s  due to having a smaller area to pump blood to.

•  The short term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long

• Every time you sneeze it reaches speeds of over 100mph, which is why people struggle to keep their eyes open when they sneeze.

• Everyone has a unique smell, except for identical twins.

• In 1972, a group of scientists reported that you could cure the common cold by freezing the big toe.

• People who have never been married are seven and a half times more likely than married people to be admitted to a psychiatric facility

• women have a better sense of smell than men and continue to have a better sense of smell throughout their lives.

• Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates

• Americans spend an estimated $500 million each year on allergy treatments

• Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.

• Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

• Brain surgery is done with the patient still awake. The brain has no nerves therefore it has no sensation. The person is put to sleep to open the skull but after that, the person wakes up to see the operation be completed

• Your hearing is less sharp if you eat too much

• Your brain is more active at night than during the day.

• The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes.

• An average person can go as many as 11 days without water. That’s assuming a mean temperature of 60degrees Fahrenheit

• Her curvy hips makes her smarter..( Smart women grow curvy hips! University of Pittsburg and University of California studied about 16,000 women and reported the following in 2007: curvy hips indicate smart women who will deliver intelligent children! Women should have fat in their hips, rather than their waist, because hip fat is usually high on omega-3 fatty acids (fat that develop the brain), while waist fat is high on omega-6 fats that do not develop the brain.)

• In the time it took you to read this, you have inhaled enough air to fill a swimming pool, you have blinked over 100 times and your heart has beaten over 1000 times.