Interesting Fun Facts about Health

Facts about health and wellness

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Here is a list of 22 interesting facts about healthy living and dieting. How much of this do you know??

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Che Guevara suffered from asthma!
Children are poisoned most frequently by eating harmful plants.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
City dwellers have longer, thicker, denser nose hairs than country folks do.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds!
Contrary to popular belief, hair does not grow back darker and thicker after it has been shaved.
Contrary to popular beliefs, chocolate does not cause acne.
Crushed cockroaches can be applied to a stinging wound to help relieve the pain.
Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.
During a typical human life span, the human heart will beat approximately 2.5 billion times.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
During menstruation, the sensitivity of a woman's middle finger is reduced.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Each nostril of a human being register smell in a different way. Smells that are made from the right nostril are more pleasant than the left.
Each year, 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.
English novelist Arnold Bennet drank a glass of water in a Paris Hotel to prove it was safe. He died two months later of Typhoid!
Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of mucous.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Every three seconds, a new baby is born.
Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

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