some facts of our body

amy · #1 Thursday, July 26, 2007

1. Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men.

2. The human brain has about 100,000,000, 000 (100 billion) neurons.

3. From ! all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.

4. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

5. Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.

6. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

7. A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.

8.In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.

9.Your brain is 80% water.

10.Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

11.Two million red blood cells die every second.

12.There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

13.Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.

14. In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.

15. Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.

16. The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.

17. The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.

18. Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.

19. A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 lit! ers.

20.Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.

21. Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.

22. If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.

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