Health Facts

There are certain things everyone seems to know about health and our bodies. Here are some interesting health facts about the human body and its parts.

• During a sneeze, all of your bodily functions momentarily stop, even your heart.

• Someone dies of tobacco use approximately every 6 seconds.

• The flu kills about 36,000 people each year in the US.
  

  About 10% of the world’s population is left-handed.

• Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.

• Smokers can lose 1/3 of their everyday memory.

• 28% of kids between ages 2 and 5 have at least one tooth cavity thanks to soda drinks and sweets.

• Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.

• There are 5 million scent receptors located within a human beings nose.

• Approximately 100 million people in the U.S. have some sort of chronic disease.

• The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades.

• By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.

• Viruses are about 100 times smaller in size than bacteria.

• The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

• Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath.

• Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.

• Kissing can aid in reducing tooth decay.

• Drilling holes in the skull was common practice in the early days of brain surgery.

• 37 million bacteria are added to the room every hour a new person comes in.

• People that have any form of gum disease are put at twice the risk to have a stroke or heart attack.

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