These fun fitness facts remind me of this scene from Jerry Maguire.
Try and read them without hearing this little voice inside your head!
2. Your heart is about the size of your fist and
weighs about as much as a softball.
3. In the course of a lifetime, the resting heart will
have pumped enough blood to fill 13 supertankers.
4. The pink under your fingernails is
the blood in your capillaries.
5. Your heart is the strongest muscle of your body and beats about
100,000 times in one day, in an average adult.
6. We need light in order to see. Animals that
live in deep caves or in the great depths of the ocean where there is no
light are often blind or have no eyes at all.
7. A person breathes 7 quarts of air every
minute.
8. Almost half the
human body's weight is made from one of three types of muscle tissue.
9. The human nervous system can relay messages
to the brain at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Your brain
receives 100 million nerve messages each second from your senses.
10. In one day, some 4000 children and
teenagers take up smoking.
11.
Underwater swimming is the only time you should hold your breathe while
exercising.
12. Your
brain weight about 3 pounds, is a pinkish gray color and is about the
size of a cauliflower.
13. Your
tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
14. The three bones of the middle ear are so
small all three could easily fit on your thumbnail.
15. If all 600 muscles in your body pulled in one
direction, you could lift 25 tons.
16. If the 300,000,000 tiny air sacs (alveoli)
in your lungs could be laid out flat, they would cover a home swimming
pool.
17. Tongue prints are as
unique as fingerprints.
18. If
you weight 100 pounds on earth, you will weigh about 264 pounds on
Jupiter.
19. There are
206 bones in the human body. One fourth of them are in your feet.
20. The human body has 45 miles of nerves.
