Health Facts

Your fingernails grow faster in summer.

Your brain is 80% water.

It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower one's blood pressure!

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

You can overdose on caffeine.

False teeth are often minutely radioactive.

Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.

People who drink coffee are less likely to commit suicide than people who don't.

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

The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.

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.

According to Harris Interactive, 70% of men and 57% of women shower daily.

Kissing an infection-free partner is good for your teeth!

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.

Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids that help reduce the risk of heart disease.

There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee. Of these, only 26 have been tested, and half caused cancer in rats.

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

Within 2 hours of standing in daylight, milk loses between half and two-thirds of its vitamin B content.

Every cigarette smoked cuts at least five minutes of life on average, which is roughly the time it takes to smoke one cigarette.

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

Men are twice as likely to be binge drinkers than women.

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