Tuesday 8 May 2012

[www.keralites.net] Amazing Medical Facts of the Body-Part-1

 

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body part-1
1. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net The average red blood cell lives for 120 days.
2. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net 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.
3. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net 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 !
4. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds.
5. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (25 mi/hr).
6. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net A sneeze generates a wind of 166 km/hr (100 mi/hr), and a cough moves out at 100 km/hr (60 mi/hr).
7. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net Our heart beats around 100,00 times every day.
8. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
9. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net Our eyes can distinguish up to one million colour surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
10. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net Our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
11. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
12. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph
13. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
14. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net We are about 70 percent water.
15. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net We make one litre of saliva a day.
16. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
17. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
18. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
19. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net It is believed that the main purpose of eyebrows is to keep sweat out of the eyes.
20. Fun & Info @ Keralites.net A person can expect to breathe in about 40 pounds of dust over his/her lifetime.
Sources:Medindia.net
 
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