Fun Health Facts

Here is a list of some funny and interesting facts concerning Health, enjoy!

• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad in first class. 

• Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.

• In Bahrain, a male gynecologist can only examine a woman's private parts through a mirror.

• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

• In the 1800's, people believed that gin could cure stomach problems.

• McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food heavy users.

• Americans ate eight million more orders of french fries and almost six million more hamburgers this year compared to last.

• Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.

• US tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.

• 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

• Sex is the safest tranquilizer in the world. It is 10 times more effective than valium!

• Consuming chocolate was once considered a sin during the 16th and 17th century.

• Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the American Civil War.

• Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.

• The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.

• Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that your brain produces when you fall in love.

• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

• Heroin used to be a cough medicine for children. A German company (Bayer) registered heroin as a trademark.

• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. (Ironic, no?)

• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.

• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. (ARE YOU SERIOUS!!)

• An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

• There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

• Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.