Body Facts About Health

Your fingernails grow faster in summer.

The inventor of Vaseline ate a spoonful of the stuff every morning!

A lot of lovemaking can unblock a stuffy nose. Sex is a natural antihistamine. It can help combat asthma and hay fever.

Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.

Dehydration is a common but often overlooked cause of daytime fatigue, affecting circulation and oxygen delivery to the brain.

Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S. population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 2004.

If you're typical, you can guess someone's sex with 95% accuracy just by smelling their breath.

On average, someone in the US suffers a stroke every 40 seconds; someone dies every 3 minutes and 14 seconds from stroke.

If you're over 100 years old, there's an 80% chance you're a woman.

Although men ARE more likely to suffer heart attacks, women are more likely to die within a year from having a heart attack.

One or two alcohol drinks a day can be anti-inflammatory.

Babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

Japan's Okinawa Island has more than 450 people living above the age of 100, and is known as the healthiest place on Earth.

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Malaysians protect their babies from disease by bathing them in beer.

While 7 men in 100 have some form of color blindness, only 1 woman in 1,000 suffers from it.

The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.