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You have no sense of smell when you're sleeping!
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time!
you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
Your brain is 80% water.
Your hair grows faster in the morning than at any other time of day.
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood each day!
Your heart rate can rise as much as 30% during a yawn.
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Your skeleton keeps growing until you are about 35, then you start to shrink.
Your skin is actually an organ.
A cat has detected his human’s breast cancer.
Carbohydrates, protein, fat, and alcohol have 4, 4, 9, and 7 calories per gram respectively.
You need to burn about 3500 calories to lose 1 pound of fat.
You don’t need to do cardio to lose weight. You only need a calorie deficit.
You can eat anything you want and still lose weight – but weight doesn’t always equal fat.
You can’t target fat loss. Fat loss is systemic.
Eating at night does not make you gain weight, overeating does.

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