FACTS HEALTH
1.
Polio vaccine was invented by Albert Bruce Sabin on 26-8-1906.
2.
If Hemoglobin is less it is called anemia.
3.
If Hemoglobin is more it
is called Polycythemia
4.
Hemoglobin F is in small
children.
5.
Hemoglobin F is produced in liver.
6.
Hemoglobin A is in elders.
7.
Hemoglobin A is produced in bone marrow.
8.
When Hemoglobin F changes into Hemoglobin A, the deficiency
changes that take place in biological reactions is called thalassemia.
9.
Alpha thalassemia cannot carry more oxygen.
10.
Beta thalassemia causes abnormal shapes, sizes..to RBC.
11.
For blood clotting platelets are needed.
12.
Platelets are called thrombocytes.
13.
Platelets are
1,50,000 to 3,50,000 in Cu. Mm
14.
If platelets count decreases the disease is called purpura.
15.
When we breathe
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ITEM
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IN
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OUT
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Nitrogen
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79%
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79%
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Oxygen
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21%
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17%
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Carbon
dioxide
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0.03%
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4%
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Water
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400
Cu.Cms
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16.
Blood can be preserved for 4 months.
17.
To preserve 100 ml blood
600 mg sodium citrate salt is added.
18.
In every cc blood there will be 5000 to 9000 WBC.
19.
In every cc blood there will be 5 million RBC cells.
20.
WBC life time 120 days.
21.
Calcium Oxalate, calcium Phosphate solidify to form as stones in
kidneys.
22.
Brain stops growing in size when we are 15 years old.
23.
Men are more prone to get colour blindness than women.
24.
The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood every year.
25.
For complete digestion it takes 48 hours.
26.
There are 206 bones in the human body.
27.
Two normal kidneys contain
2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood every day.
28.
Smoking is
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Loathsome to the eye
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Hateful to the nose
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Harmful to the brain
and
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Dangerous to the lungs.
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29.
There are 22 bones in skull.
30.
1/5th of oxygen is used up in brain.
31.
Our nerves transmit messages at
300 feet per second.
32.
The adult skin covers 20 sq.feet.
33.
Human body contains
enough
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Phosphorous to make 2000
matches
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Fat to make 7 bar soaps
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Iron to make one nail
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34.
In 24 hours an average adult can breathe 23,000 times.
35.
Each square inch of human skin consists of
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19 million cells
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60 hairs
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90 oil glands
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19 feet of blood vessels
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625sweat glands
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19000 sensory cells
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36.
There are 6000 muscles in our muscular system.
37.
Chemically the substance that is closest to human blood is sea
water.
38.
There are 3000 taste buds on our tongue.
39.
There are 200 different types of viruses that cause cold.
40.
Most humans can distinguish 10000 smells.
41.
1 gram fat = 9 calories
42.
Human brain 10 m watts.
43.
Human stomach can hold 1.1 litres of liquid.
44.
At birth our muscles are only one fortieth of their eventual size
and power.
45.
Human body consists of 60 trillion cells.
46.
An average of 400 million sperms are there in one ejaculation in
human sperm.
47.
Fridge will not kill bacteria but will not allow it to grow
more.
48.
Every word that we speak requires the use of 72 muscles.
49.
Hot drink is better on a hot day than cold drink.
50.
Man is the only animal that sleeps on its back.
51.
The lens of the eye
continues to grow throughout a peron’s life.
52.
Men have more blood than women. [1.5 gallons ,
0.875 gallons]
53.
Men have more hemoglobin than women. [ 4.6 to 6.2 X 106
RBC .
4.2 to 5.4 X 106]
54.
80% of body’s heat escapes through the head.
55.
The vocal cards are shorter and thinner in women and children.
This gives high pitch to voice and less effort to talk.
56.
The skin of human adult weighs 6 pounds = 6 x 45.4 gms = 272.4
gms.
57.
How heart beats is a mystery.
58.
Vit. C cannot be created in our body.
59.
It cannot be stored up in small amounts.
60.
In our eye there are 70, 00,000 cons and 12, 00, 00,000 rods.
61.
Cons receive the colours and rods the light rays.
62.
People stutter because the larynx, cheeks, tongue and lips have
lost their coordination.
63.
Proteins are made up of amino acids.
64.
There are 24 types of amino acids.
65.
Let any muscle work in our body carbonic acid is formed. These
molecules reach heart in 10 seconds.
66.
The rate of heart beat decreases, if the no. of carbonic acid
molecules reaching heart decreases.
67.
If RBC is removed from blood, there won’t be much difference
between it and milk.
68.
AIDS virus develops in WBC.
69.
Artificial blood is invented by Heme Austin.
70.
Spinach saves us from Vit. A, Vit. C and anemia.
71.
The cause of jaundice disease is extra secretion of bile by the
liver.
72.
Spleen is the graveyard of our body.
