40 Facts about Health ←FACTSlides→
One of the worst tragedies regarding the World health crisis is that through poor lifestyle habits, most people actually invite the unsavory assortment of disabling diseases bent on killing them. Plagued with a pandemic of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, many seem to spend their last 10 or even 20 years dying rather than really living! Worse, these self-destructive habits have led to astronomical medical costs.
It doesn’t need to be this way. It can change. Not only for you personally and for those you love!
Most people want good health, but they are confused about where to find it. Did you know that the public indulges on the nearly 30,000 quick-fix health supplements available on the market? It’s a multi billion dollar industry. More than 150 million people take some form of supplement each year. While taking a vitamin pill might be helpful at times, it’s not a substitute for a healthy lifestyle. It’s not worth spending a fortune on something that doesn’t get to the core of the problem.
15 Amazing Facts About Health
- People who regularly eat dinner or breakfast in restaurants double their risk of becoming obese.
- Farting helps to reduce high blood pressure & is good for your health.
- Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes exercise on a stationary bicycle.
- Breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it feeds your body & mind with the necessary nutrients & energy to function throughout the day . Eating breakfast regularly will also keep weight off because it gets your metabolism going.
- Over 30 % of cancer could be prevented by avoiding tobacco & alcohol, having a healthy diet & physical activity.
- Mental disorders such as depression are among the 20 leading causes of disability worldwide.
- Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy.
- Every cigarette you smoke reduces your expected life span by 11 minutes.
- The average person loses about 80 hair a day-- & they end up everywhere from shower drains to pillows & coats.
- There are up to 1000 different types of good bacteria living in our skin. They help with our skin cell turnover & immunity.
- Each minutes your heart pumps 1.5 gallons of blood.
- A women 's average heartbeat is faster than a man's by almost 8 beats a minutes.
- 1 can of SODA a day increases your chances of getting Type 2 Diabetes by 22 %.
- Ginger can help reduce exercise- induced muscle pain by up to 25 % .
- On average, people who complain live longer, Releasing the tension increases immunity & boost their health.
8 Scary Health Facts
- It's not just coughs and sneezes that spread diseases. One single bacteria cell can multiply to become more than 8 million cells in less than 24 hours. Just imagine what's on the toilet door handle you just touched, the taps and even on other people's hands...
- Flies can't eat solid food. They vomit on food to make it soft before sucking it back up. Flies will eat anything from poo, to your roast dinner. Speaking of poo, a typical bowel movement can contain up to 100 billion potentially disease-causing organisms some of which end up in the air and on the toilet even after flushing - even if the lid is put down. When you're cleaning special attention should be paid to anything likely to be touched or contaminated with feces. This includes lavatory seats, flush handles, door handles, wash basins, taps, floors, tiling, light switches, potties, baby-changing mats etc.
- Airborn - Different viruses cause the common cold and flu, but both are spread through the air in tiny droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes. When you sneeze your body is getting rid of infected cells and an average sneeze will spread over 100,000 virus cells up to 30 feet. And, in case you were wondering, people suffering from a cold can spread the virus from two days before the symptoms of the illness start and up to four days afterwards. On average, adults catch two to three colds each year. School-age children can have twelve or more colds in a year.
- Do not use eyeshadow if you have an eye infection as this will aggravate the problem. You could also pass the bacteria on to the eyeshadow with the applicator or your finger. And pay attention to how those suave mall makeup artists apply their products on your face. You don't want to get used tools. Which reminds us, never use lipstick if you have a cold sore, it will aggrivate the cold sore but, more importantly, the infection will be on the lipstick and you could re-infect your mouth. Ok, one more thing, never share mascara as this is the most common way to pass on eye infections such as conjunctivitis.
- The wart virus is very contagious. The skin cells on the warts release thousands of viruses and touching the wart or skin cells on it releases the virus, which can then infect others. Similarly, 6-9 million Americans have toenail fungus. Protect your feet by keeping them clean and dry. Furthermore, a tiny flake of infected skin from a person with athlete's foot can fall off whilst showering. It may then be trodden on by others who can then develop the infection. Once a small patch of infection develops it typically spreads along the skin.
- High heels over 1.5 inches could lead to broken and twisted ankles as well as knee and backstrain. Pointed shoes could lead to bunions and hammer toes.
- Don't neglect your beard. If you do it will smell like a sweaty armpit. Dirty beards harbour the same smelly bacteria that live in smelly armpits. Human beards that aren't regularly maintained or groomed create the perfect environment for human lice.
- Make sure you brush and floss your teeth twice a day to avoid plaque. Plaque produces smelly gasses and bacteria which lead to bad breath and gum disease.
