Interesting Facts

Your heart is about the size of your two hands clasped together

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Heart beats 1,00,000 times a day

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Your heart is a coordinated machine. The RIGHT side pumps blood in your lungs, while the LEFT side pumps it back into your body

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Each minute your heart pumps 5.6 lts of blood

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You control your heart health through diet, exercise and managing your stress

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The heart does the most physical work of any muscle during the day.

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A woman's heart beats faster than a man's

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Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for our heart

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Vegetarians are 19% less likely to die from heart disease, a study a study found.

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Human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body; it's in the middle

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Vitamins are available in two forms: water soluble and fat soluble.

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The fat soluble vitamins are A, D, E and K. Rest of the vitamins are water soluble. They accumulate within the body and are not needed on a daily basis.

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Vitamin C helps in enhancing immunity, absorbing Iron, healing wounds and provides antioxidant to the body.

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Vitamin C has proved to be useful in breaking down some kinds of oxidized fats.

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28 essential vitamins and minerals play key roles in the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate, and fat as well as in the structure of the human body.

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Good eating habits can strengthen immune defenses.

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The micro-nutrients in your diet consist of food components that don’t provide energy yet are essential for the healthy functioning of your cells and tissues.

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Manganese helps with energy production, and helps metabolize macro-nutrients, protein, carbohydrate, and fat.

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Chloride helps with the regulation of both water and electrolytes in the cells, and helps maintain the correct PH. Chloride is required for the absorption of vitamin B12 and iron.

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Iron helps with the production of red blood cells and lymphocytes.

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Iodine is needed for the thyroid gland to develop and function properly. Also, it is involved with the metabolizing of fats, and promotes energy.

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Magnesium helps the heart to maintain a normal rhythm. Also, it helps with the conversion of glucose into energy, and metabolizes the micronutrients calcium and vitamin C.

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Copper stimulates the immune system, which in turn fights infections, repair injured tissues, and promotes healing.

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Selenium is an antioxidant. It is known to protect vitamin E.

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Selenium makes sure the heart gets enough oxygen, and protects the body against the effects of arsenic, cadmium and mercury.

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Low Selenium is tied to a higher incidence of cancer.

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Chromium helps in keeping insulin at its optimal level.

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Zinc helps heal wounds, keeps skin healthy and fights infections.

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Feelings of panic, fear, and uneasiness

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Problem in sleeping

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Cold or sweaty hands or feet

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Shortness of breath

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Heart palpitations

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Dry mouth

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Nausea

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Muscle tension

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SYMPTOMS OF ANXIETY ; Dizziness

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When cells shrink due to exposure to stress hormones, they disconnect from each other, which contributes to depression.

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Chronic stress decreases the body’s immune system’s response to infection and can affect a person’s response to immunizations

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Stress can alter blood sugar levels, which can cause mood swings, fatigue, hyperglycemia, and metabolic syndrome, a major risk factor for heart attack and diabetes.

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Chronic stress floods the brain with powerful hormones that are meant for short-term emergency situations. Chronic exposure can damage, shrink, and kill brain cells.

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Stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, liver cirrhosis, and suicide.

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Stress can make acne worse. Researchers say stress-related inflammation rather than a rise is sebum (the oily substance in skin) is to blame.

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The term “stress” derives from the Latin stringere (to draw tight).

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On an average we blink 15000 times in a day. Thats equal to half an hour of sleep !

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We see with our brains and not our eyes. Our eyes just function like cameras

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The retina contains 125 million rods and 7 million cones. The rods are responsible for seeing shades of gray where as the cones are responsible to see the colors . One would have thought the opposite !

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Nerve impulses travel at the speed of 400 km/hr !

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A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr !

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Our eyes can process 10 million color surfaces

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There are more than 300,000 capillaries in the lungs and if they were joined together they can cover the distance between two corners of America.

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The average person produces so much saliva that he can fill two swimming pools in a lifetime.

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The red blood cells move so fast that they can circulate internally and come back to the same position in just 60 seconds.

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Most human babies are born with blue eyes but after getting exposed to UV radiations the eyes change their color !

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The muscles that control eyes contract at least 100,000 times a day. This is like excersing your legs on a 50 mile long walk !

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Do you ever wonder why the stomach does not digest itself ? This is because the stomach can create cells even before they are destroyed !

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The brain uses 20 % of the oxygen that is generated in the body even when it forms only 2 % of the body's mass !

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Our kidneys have 1 million filters which filter 1.3 liters of blood per minute !

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The ovaries contain 500,000 eggs but only 400 of them get a chance to produce life !

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You can't tickle yourself ! After reading this you would surely try and tickle yourself !

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The amount of sperms men produce per day can populate the entire planet in 6 months !

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Your bones are stronger than concrete!

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Dreaming quite often actually means you have a great IQ !

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When you go to bed you are about 1 cm shorter than when you got up because the cartilage in your spine compresses by about 1 cm through the day.

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Your heart beats 101,000 times in a day and it beats 3 billion times in a lifetime pumping 400 million liters of blood

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On an average people can hold their breath for 1 minute. David Merlini holds a world record of 21 minutes and 29 seconds.

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Men lose 40 hair strands per day and women lose 60 hair strands per day.

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On an average we blink 15000 times in a day. Thats equal to half an hour of sleep !

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We see with our brains and not our eyes. Our eyes just function like cameras

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The retina contains 125 million rods and 7 million cones. The rods are responsible for seeing shades of gray where as the cones are responsible to see the colors . One would have thought the opposite !

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Nerve impulses travel at the speed of 400 km/hr !

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A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr !

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Our eyes can process 10 million color surfaces

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There are more than 300,000 capillaries in the lungs and if they were joined together they can cover the distance between two corners of America.

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A Zinc deficiency causes hair loss, and fatigue.

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