Here are some health facts that you probably never knew about. Some may be shocking, others may make you think twice about grabbing a cup of coffee or even drinking a glass of orange juice for breakfast.
1. If you are driving and talking on the phone, you are more impaired than someone who has a .08 blood alcohol level.
2. Banging you head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour!
3. In some parts of the world, parents protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.
4. ‘Gymnasium’ comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means ‘to exercise naked.’
5. There are thousands of chemicals in a cup of coffee. Only 26 have been tested and are known to cause cancer in rats.
6. The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
7. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.
8. There are more bacteria in our mouths, than there are people in the world.
9. By FDA standards, one cup of orange juice is allowed to contain 10 fruit fly eggs, but only 2 maggots.
10. Apples are more efficient than caffeine when it comes to keeping people up in the morning.
11. Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges.
12. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
13. It is possible to go blind from smoking too heavily.
14. On average, right handed people live longer than left handed people.
15. You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than in the evening!
16. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that’s the weight of about 6 elephants.
17. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb! EEEEEWWWW!!
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