The
20 health and fitness facts you didn’t want to know
By
SGT Rob Orr
I’m
sure many Defence members could list 20 reasons for performing
some form of exercise and most would know some health and fitnessrelated
facts.
So let’s look at 20 health and fitness facts that perhaps you
do not (or do not want to) know.
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Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase bacteria in
your ear by 700 times.
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The average human foot has about 20,000 sweat glands and can
sweat up to a half cup of liquid per day.
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To burn off one plain M&M, you need to walk the full length
of a football field.
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The purring of a cat is at the frequency commonly used in electrotherapy
to assist in pain relief and healing.
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Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10th of a calorie.
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Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do.
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The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Buddhist monk.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people
in the world.
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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
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If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours
due to her proportions.
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If you are 12 kilos overweight, you have nearly 5000 extra miles
of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.
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Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William
Semple.
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Every seven minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class
pulls a hamstring.
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It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop, even your heart.
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Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
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Strawberries have more vitamin C in them than oranges.
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In an average lifetime of 70 years, the total resting time of
the heart between beats is estimated to be about 40 years.
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In a lifetime, the average meat-eater consumes the equivalent
of 760 chickens, 20 pigs, 29 sheep, five cows and half a trawler-load
of fish.