Few Facts of Life

[Andreea]

1. Children who bathe every day and wash their hands more than five times are 25 per cent more likely to have asthma.

The tracking of 14,000 children by the Institute of Child Health at Bristol University has revealed that those children who bathe every day and wash their hands more than five times are 25 per cent more likely to have asthma than less clean children, perhaps because the children are exposed to fewer infections and are left more vulnerable and sensitive to allergens.

2. Those with the highest consumption of apples were less than half as likely to develop lung cancer.

A study of about 10,000 people in Finland, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, reports that those with the highest consumption of apples were less than half as likely to develop lung cancer as those who ate few or no apples. This could possibly be due to the antioxidant flavonoids in apples.


3. Eating tomato products more than twice a week reduced the risk of prostrate cancer by up to 34 per cent.

Lycopene, derived in the diet from tomatoes, can have health benefits. One large study has shown that those with high levels of lycopene had half the risk of a heart attack and another has shown that eating tomato products more than twice a week, as opposed to never, reduced the risk of prostrate cancer by up to 34 per cent. Processed tomatoes appears to offer the most benefit (tomato sauce, puree and ketchup, but with tomato juice showing little or no benefit). Lycopene is also found in watermelon, pink grapefruit and apricots.

4. Kiwi is the most nutritionally dense of the commonly eaten fruit.

Kiwi is the most 'nutritionally dense' of the commonly eaten fruit - scoring high for Vitamin C and E, magnesium, potassium, fibre, serotonin, arginine (used to treat impotence) and nutrients recommended to combat cancer and heart disease.

5. Electromagnetic fields.

Scientists from the UK's National Radiological Protection Board have shown that electromagnetic fields can damage short-term memory in mice and lengthen the time taken to learn tasks. Humans are subjected to electromagnetic fields (at lower levels but for longer periods) from televisions, computers, electrical appliances and power lines.

6. The sleep-regulating hormone melatonin is destroyed in the body by even 15 minutes of light.

The sleep-regulating hormone melatonin is destroyed in the body by even 15 minutes of light, according to a study led by David Klein at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda. "If you get up in the middle of the night, better leave the light off," recommends the New Scientist summary.

7. Humans have inherited a taste for spicy food because spices kill bacteria. Garlic, onion, allspice and oregano kill 100 per cent of bacteria.

Paul Sharman of Cornell University argues that humans have inherited a taste for spicy food because spices kill bacteria. Garlic, onion, allspice and oregano kill 100 per cent of bacteria; Thyme, cinnamon, tarragon and cumin can kill about 80 per cent, with capsicums, chillies and other peppers killing slightly less.

8. Jolting the body.

Dr Michael Weintraub, a clinical professor of neurology at New York Medical College, has evidence that sports which jolt the body, such as long distance running and high-impact aerobics, lead to inner ear damage, with hearing loss at high frequencies, ringing in the ear, dizziness, motion sickness and loss of balance. The daily jolting may displace tiny granules in the inner ear which stimulate the hair fronds that pass sound impulses along the nerves to the brain. The ear damage seems to occur within a few years of starting the exercise, and in one case within less than a year.

[Leonid]

Very interesting and cognitive!

Thank you

[Andreea]

There are 100 trillion cells in a human body.

Each cell contains a small part of DNA. If we were to unfold and stretch out the DNA from one cell it would be 2 meters long.

If we were to unfold and stretch out the DNA from all the cells in a human body the length will be more than 600 times the distance from Earth to Sun.

In order to write the full code of the human genome, one has to type approximately 60 words per hour, 8 hours per day for approximately 50 years.

Living cells have been found in a body that has been dead for 4 months - keep in mind the idea of cloning!


Enjoy!

[Preciouslife1]

LIFE IS BACKWARDS

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.
What do you get in the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards.

You should die first, you know, start out dead, get it out of the way.

You wake up in a an old age home, feeling better every day.

You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink like a fish, party your ass off, and screw anything that moves - you've only got a few years left, so why not?!?

Then you get ready for High School. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities.

You become a baby. Then, you spend your last 9 months floating peacefully with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, larger quarters everyday, and then you finish off as an orgasm!

[Leonid]

Originally Posted by Preciouslife1

LIFE IS BACKWARDS

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.
What do you get in the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards.

You should die first, you know, start out dead, get it out of the way.

You wake up in a an old age home, feeling better every day.

You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You drink like a fish, party your ass off, and screw anything that moves - you've only got a few years left, so why not?!?

Then you get ready for High School. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities.

You become a baby. Then, you spend your last 9 months floating peacefully with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, larger quarters everyday, and then you finish off as an orgasm!

Sounds good! I like it)

Hey this is George Carlin..quote me next time!

thx for those facts lawl ty vry much lawl

[Elf]

Wow, very nice and interesting!!!

[Leonid]

Welcome to the board!)

Originally Posted by Elf

Wow, very nice and interesting!!!