Amazing Health Facts you didn’t Know!

The following are some amazing facts about your health, exercise, weight loss, or medication that you never knew!

  • There are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment. To maintain this number, about two and a half million new ones need to be produced every second by your bone marrow. That’s like a new population of the city of Toronto every second.
  • The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
  • Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second. That’s a little less than the population of Canada – every second !
  • Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).
  • A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
  • A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
  • Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
  • Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
  • Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
  • Pap smear for cervical cancer is the single best cancer screening procedure
  • Lifetime risk of an American man developing an invasive cancer is 45%
  • Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
  • Most poisonings involve medicines, vitamins, home-care products, illegal drugs, plants and metals such as mercury.
  • The five types of poison exposures include ingestion through the mouth, inhalation through the nose or mouth, through the eyes (ocular), through the skin (dermal) or through stings or bites (parenteral).
  • It is estimated that 70,000 children under 15 develop type 1 diabetes each year (200 children a day).
  • There are about 250 million people with diabetes in the world
  • Is kissing good for your health? Apparently so, the extra saliva that is exchanged reduces decay of teeth by keeping your mouths clean.
  • Can you lose calories by merely kissing? Apparently so, you lose 26 calories if you kiss for a minute and 260 if you did it for 10 minutes.
  • Each year about 56 million people die around the world.
  • 20,000 people in the world die daily due to cancer
  • Cancer of the Lung, Prostate and Stomach are the most commonly diagnosed cancers in men
  • Relative risk of a smoker developing lung cancer is 23 times higher than that of a non-smoker.
  • Heart disease is still the no.1 Killer in the world.