Face The Facts

Our heart beats 100,000 times a day, 35 million times a year, and 2.5 billion times a lifetime (oh my goodness, does that mean that we'll die after our heart beats 2.5 billion times?????). Nah, I think that's for the average person.


If you avoid consuming any fats, you will short-circuit your body's system for transporting vitamins through the body and regulating cholestrol levels. With a lack of fat-soluble vitamins (A,D,E,K), the body cannot suitably absorb calcium, hormone production may be negatively affected and blood may have difficulty forming and clotting properly.

An average adult's skin spans 21 square feet, weighs nine pounds, and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.

You are taller in the morning by a very slight margin. Between the 24 vertebrae of the backbone are little discs of cartilage. During sleep, the excess fluid between the discs are replenished. After you wake up, your body is on average 1 centimetre taller. That's a good reason to sleep in school =)

The avergae human body contains enough:
1. Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog
2. Carbon to make 900 pencils
3. Potassium to fire a toy cannon
4. Fat to make 7 bars of soap
5. Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads
6. Water to fill a ten-gallon tank

About 2 million blood cells die every second, with the same number born at the same time. Within a tiny droplet of blood lies around 5 million red blood cells, 300,000 platelets and 10,000 white blood cells. One red blood cell takes around 1 minute to circle the whole body and makes an estimated 250,000 round trips before returning to the blood marrow to die.