Wednesday, July 22, 2009

DID U KNOW...

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.


Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds(90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.



The human brain is 80% water.
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side


If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.



Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.

The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing.

Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

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