Fun Fitness Facts – I

Fun Fitness Facts – I
1. You would need to drink a quart of milk every day for three to four months to drink as much blood as your heart pumps in one hour.
2. Your heart is about the size of your fist and weighs about as much as a softball.
3. In the course of a lifetime, the resting heart will have pumped enough blood to fill 13 supertankers.
4. The pink under your fingernails is the blood in your capillaries.
5. Your heart is the strongest muscle of your body and beats about 100,000 times in one day, in an average adult.
6. We need light in order to see. Animals that live in deep caves or in the great depths of the ocean where there is no light are often blind or have no eyes at all.
7. A person breathes 7 quarts of air every minute.
8. Almost half the human body’s weight is made from one of three types of muscle tissue.
9. The human nervous system can relay messages to the brain at speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Your brain receives 100 million nerve messages each second from your senses.
10. In one day, some 4000 children and teenagers take up smoking.