Health and Medical Trivia

  • Loneliness can literally make one sick - causing cardiovascular problems and viral infections resulting in increased chances of death.
  • An average person must burn about 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat.
  • The best way to tell if one has bad breath is to lick one's wrist; and smell it when the saliva dries up.
  • From 2013, Internet addiction will be classified as a real mental disorder.
  • "Kleine-Levin Syndrome" is a disorder that causes people to sleep for weeks at a time. They wake up only to eat.
  • While our vision is the quickest sense we have, our sense of smell is the most delayed.
  • 25% of a human's bones are in the feet.
  • A disease called "Exercise-Induced Anaphylaxis" literally causes people to be allergic to exercise.
  • Putting sugar on a wound or cut will greatly reduce pain and speed up the healing process.
  • Humans are the only mammals that can't swallow and breathe at the same time.
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