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Obesity Facts
According to the CDC, these are the facts about Obesity in USA


 * Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 34% (2007-2008)
 * Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are overweight (and not obese): 34% (2007-2008) - Source: Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Extreme Obesity Among Adults: United States, Trends 1976–1980 Through 2007–2008
 * Percent of adolescents age 12-19 years who are obese: 18% (2007-2008)
 * Percent of children age 6-11 years who are obese: 20% (2007-2008)
 * Percent of children age 2-5 years who are obese: 10% (2007-2008)

Other Facts

 * That the average red blood cell lives for 120 days!


 * That there are 2.5 trillion (give or take) of red blood cells in your body at any moment!


 * Considering all the tissues and cells in your body, 25 million new cells are being produced each second!


 * A red blood cell can circumnavigate your body in under 20 seconds!


 * Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day! and in n a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.


 * Nerve Impulses travel at over 400 km/hr (250 mi/hr)!


 * That our lungs inhale over two million litres of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court!


 * 50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, all while you have been reading this sentence!


 * Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.


 * In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.


 * The structural plan of a whale's, a dog's, a bird's and a man's 'arm' are exactly the same.


 * The world`s first test-tube twins were born in June 1981.


 * There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.


 * Most people blink about 25 times a minute.


 * One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together. ...[Did you know|more]


 * Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.


 * Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 90 miles per hour.


 * Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.


 * Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.


 * You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown.


 * You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.


 * Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
 * The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.


 * The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.


 * Every person has a unique tongue print.


 * The average human's heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime.


 * The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.


 * You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.


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


 * A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.


 * If you were freeze-dried, 10% of your body weight would be from the microorganisms on your body.


 * According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.


 * Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.


 * When you eat meat and drink milk in the same meal, your body does not absorb any of the milk's calcium. It is best to have 2 hours between the milk and meat intake.


 * Only humans and horses have hymens.


 * The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.


 * Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.