Interesting Fun Facts about Health

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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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There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.
To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.
Up to the age of six or seven months a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. An adult cannot do this.
Vaccines contain formaldehyde, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), phenol (disinfectant / pesticide), and aluminum.
We blink 25 times a minute.
When a person dies, hearing is usually the last sense to go.
When you correct for weight differences, men are proportionately stronger than horses.
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too.
While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.
Whispering is more wearing on your voice than a normal speaking tone.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Women buy four out of every 10 condoms sold.
Women end up digesting most of the lipstick they apply.
Women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
Women who are romance novel readers are reported to make love 74% more often with their partners than women who do not read romance novels.
Womens'hearts beat faster than mens'.
World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!

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