I found these extremely interesting facts about all around health and I thought I'd share them.
Did you Know...
-The average adult has 100 billion brain cells, that is if we laid them end-to-end it would be 200 million miles long (from here to the sun and back). We lose 85,000 of these every day.
-A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than lack of food.
It takes 10 days to die from not sleeping, while starvation takes a few weeks.
-On average, it takes a person 2 hours of NON STOP walking (3mph) to burn off the calories and sugar from a 12 oz. can of Coke.
-There are more overweight people than underweight people in the world.
-1,000,000 Americans are living with HIV and 25% of them are unaware of their infection.
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Mariana,
I feel your blog to be very intresting; I love the fact that it is related to health, one of my favorite subjects, I to have a huge passion for health, or just the human body overall.
The facts you have given us are very intriguing, I hope to read many more of this fun and educational facts.
When I read the fact in your blog about there are more overweight people than average people in the US. That just goes to show you that America definitely the health crisis. I actually think it is fair to say crisis to. Obesity is infact an epidemic. I am interested to see how this new administration in the white house handles the issue, if they do.
The fact that I found interesting, yet disturbing is the fact that one third of the world's population suffers from Tuberculosis. Its hard to believe that 8,000 people die from Tuberculosis a day. I did some extra research and discovered that the infectious disease spreads the air via aerosol droplets which are expelled in a cough or sneeze. Also, to prevent the disease from permeating, people with TB are identified and treated as well as children being vaccinated to protect them from TB. As far as treatment goes, I read that antibiotics are used to kill the bacteria.
Mariana, I was really surprised by the facts that you found out. It's astonishing that it takes 2 hours of non stop walking to lose the calories of a 12 oz. coke. That's unbelievable. I really like all your posts since it is a topic that intrigues everyone.It's a really good idea to open the eyes of people. I hope you will come up with more cool facts like this. :)
These statistics are ridiculous. It truly is sad that there are more overweight people in our country than underweight people. The fact that it takes 2 hours of nonstop walking to burn off 1 can of coke is disgusting and it really doesn't make eating or drinking things like that worth it. It makes sense that people would die before not sleeping than not eating because personally, I can't function at all if I haven't slept but when I haven't eaten, I'm just a little frustrated.
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