Health and Medical Trivia

  • One puff on a cigarette delivers over 4,000 different chemicals into your body.
  • Anorexia is an eating disorder in which a person eats almost nothing and is severely underweight. Yet most people with the disease still believe they look fat.
  • Breast-fed babies whose mothers smoke are exposed to nicotine through their milk, often up to half a cigarette's worth a day.
  • Recent research suggests that people who smoke are over 50% more likely than non-smokers to have serious relationship problems, including a greater likelihood of suffering from anxiety and depression.
  • Your fingernails grow almost four times as fast as your toenails.
  • The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells
  • The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!
  • It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
  • The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease.
  • The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.
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