Interesting human facts in beauty health

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Ann Ruthenburg

HELLO there everyone, I hope you are doing good. I know the heat is affecting many of us, but this is the way of the season right..hot, hot, hot. Thank God for the periodic drizzle here and there.

The other day I was going through some interesting human facts that I thought were interesting to know in beauty health and all things body. Read and get educated.

Quote: “At birth we have over 300 bones. As we grow up, some of the bones begin to fuse together as a result an adult has only 206 bones.”

10 percent of human dry weight comes from bacteria. So not all bacteria is bad for you. 80 head hairs are likely to fall every day. I guess it has been reduced because in school we were told 150 hair on our heads fell everyday. That’s a lot of hair. 80 percent of the brain is water. Imagine that! Approximately 75 percent of human waste is made of water. So if you are constipated – drink more water.

Body fat is not particularly hazardous to health until the level of total body fat reaches 35 percent for men and 40 percent for women. For those people wanting to get rid of all their fat, you are wrong. But on the other hand, for those who have more fat than body structure, you too are wrong. Eating Breakfast helps to burn five percent to 20 percent of calories throughout the day. So those of you trying to lose weight by avoiding breakfast are actually missing out on the biggest weight loss aid.

A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, one to 1.5cm per month and 12 to 15cm per year. This confirms what I always say that every body’s hair grows. The problem is not the growth, but maintaining the length.

A hard working adult sweats up to four gallons per day. I wonder what they are replacing it with, since many people refuse to drink at least 1.5litres to two litres of water a day. A person will die from lack of sleep sooner than they will from starvation, which usually takes a few weeks.

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime. Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.

Crying alleviates stress and allows humans to decrease feelings of anger and sadness. So we should allow ourselves and others to cry within reason …it is healthy. Fingernails contain keratin and they seem to be strongest component in the human body. Fingernails grow fastest on the hand that you write with and on the longest fingers. On average, nails grow about one-tenth of an inch each month. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. Human hair is made up of a body protein called keratin and it grows out of an opening of the skin called Follicle. It makes sense then to use hair products that have Keratin in them. Humans have more facial muscles than any other animal on earth – 22 on each side of the face.

Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days. In an average person, it takes 8 seconds for food to travel down the food pipe, 3-5 hours in the small intestine and three to four days in the large intestine. It can take your finger and toenails 1/2 a year to grow an entirely new nail (from base to tip).It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it.

Loneliness is physically painful. Mmmmmm shame! Male hairs are denser and grow faster than females. Melanin, a pigment present in the skin is responsible for the colour of the skin in a person. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. Men produce about 10 million new sperm daily (approximately enough to repopulate the entire planet in 6 months). The average life span of a sperm is about 36 hours. The female body is capable of giving birth to 35 children in one lifetime.

Straight hair lies flat because it is round and grows out of round follicles. Redheads have the least dense hair, averaging about 86 000 follicles. Blonds average 146 000 follicles. People with black hair tend to have about 110 000 follicles, while those with brown hair are right on

The average person has about 100 000 scalp hairs. The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you’ll have a bad dream. The feet account for one quarter of all the human body’s bones. The human body takes six hours to digest a high fat meal and it takes two hours for a carbohydrate meal. Vitamin C and E fights against Dementia. Vitamin E protects the brain cells from damage caused by alcohol consumption. We are about 70 percent water. When you look at an object, the image of that object appears upside down on your retina. However,

You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. Why doesn’t your stomach digest itself? That’s because your stomach cells are created faster than they can be destroyed. Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. You burn more calories while sleeping than you do when watching television. So stop watching TV till late and rather go to sleep on time.

You can go without eating for weeks without succumbing, but eleven days is tops for going without sleep. Your bones are composed of 31 percent water. Your bones, pound for pound, are four times stronger than concrete.

No wonder it takes a lot to break them. Well, that is it from me this week, I hope you are a little more educated on your body parts kikiki. Until next week, God bless!

Anastasia can be found at Kutz & Kurlies Hair Salon in Meikles Store or messaged on 0733285730. Or follow her Blog (annruthenburg.blogspot.com), or email on [email protected]

 

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