Body Facts

The risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week.  German researchers observed that the risk of a heart attack is 33 percent higher on Monday than on any other day, possibly because of the stress of starting the work week. Our body always remembers and anticipates stressful events. So, even though the participants ... Read More »

Our eyes grow so little that they are perceived not to grow. An infant’s eyes are about 19 mm and will grow to 24-25 mm in adulthood. This slight growth may be cause for many to believe that our eyes are the same size from birth.   Read More »

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. Read More »

A normal person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks. Read More »

Bone is five times stronger than steel. Read More »

Air is not completely clean, the food we eat may have insignificant amounts of toxic, the products that we use on our skin and hair are also toxic. Water removes the dangerous toxins that are added into our body. Read More »

You grow by about 8mm (O.3in) every night when you are asleep, but shrink to your former height the following day. Read More »

The body’s largest organ is the skin. In an adult man it covers about 1.9m2 (20 square feet), a woman has about 1.6m2 (17 square feet). Read More »

Each kidney contains some 1 million individual filters. Read More »

Koala fingerprints are similar to human fingerprints, even with an electron microscope, it can be quite difficult to distinguish between the two. Read More »