1. For every pound of fat gained, you add seven miles of new blood vessels.
New tissue needs blood supply, so your vascular system expands to
accommodate it. This also means your heart must work harder to pump
blood through the new network, which may reduce oxygenation and nutrient
replenishment in other tissues. Lose a pound? Your body will break down
and reabsorb the unneeded blood vessels from the previous tissue.
2. Muscle tissue is three times more efficient at burning calories than fat.
This is why possessing more muscle should be a training goal for most
people. More muscle = more calories burned = less fat = being more fit
looking. Simple goals and simple math.
3. You are taller in the morning than in the evening.
When you crawl out of the sack in the morning you are at your tallest.
On average, you are approximately one half inch taller when you wake in
the morning, thanks to excess fluid between within your spinal discs.
While you are sleeping, these fluids replenish. During the day your body
has to deal with the stress of standing, so the discs become compressed
and the fluid seeps out. This results in you losing a small amount of
extra height.
4. Your stomach manufactures a new lining every three days to avoid digesting itself.
As a part of the digestive process, your stomach secretes hydrochloric
acid (HA). HA is a powerful corrosive compound also used to treat
various metals. The HA your stomach secretes is also powerful, but
mucous lining the stomach wall keeps it within the digestive system. As a
result it breaks down the food you consume, but not your own stomach.
5. Your body produces enough heat in only thirty minutes to boil a half-gallon of water.
Your body is the epitome of a study on the laws of thermodynamics. You
produce heat from all that is going on – exercise, metabolizing food,
maintaining homeostasis – and as you sweat, exhale, excrete, and urinate
(lovely thoughts, all of them).
6. Human bone is as strong as granite, relative to supporting resistance.
Would you believe a matchbox-size chunk of bone can support 18,000
pounds? Compared to concrete, human bone is four times greater in
support strength.
7. Your skin is an organ.
Just like the liver,
heart, and kidneys, your outer covering is an organ. An average man has
enough skin on his body to cover approximately twenty square feet. For
an average woman it is approximately seventeen square feet.
Approximately 12% of your weight is from your skin. And, your skin
replaces 45,000 cells in only a few seconds. It’s constantly growing
new skin and shedding old skin.
8. By the age of eighteen your brain stops growing.
From that age forward it begins to lose more than 1,000 brain cells
every day. Only two percent of your body weight is occupied by your gray
matter, but is uses up to 20% of your overall energy output (it needs
carbohydrates). Your brain works continuously and never rests, even when
you’re asleep. Aside from producing REM dreams, your brain works
overtime to replenish its ability to function normally during your
daytime waking hours.
9. There are more than 600 individual skeletal muscles and 206 bones in your body.
If all 600 muscles contracted and pulled in the same direction, you
could lift over twenty tons of resistance. Additionally, the adult
skeleton is composed of 206 bones, but at birth an infant skeleton
contains approximately 350 bones. Over time, some of the 350 bones fuse
together and eventually grow to the 206 adult figure.
10. You need
to consume a quart of water each day for four months to equate to the
amount of blood your heart pumps in one hour.
Additionally, over a
lifetime, at your normal (resting) heart rate you will have pumped
enough blood to fill thirteen oil super tankers. To further expound on
this fact, on average, your heart beats 40,000,000 times per year. Doing
the math, over your lifetime (both men and women averaged), that
results in 2,600,000,000 heartbeats (two billion, six hundred million).
This does not even factor in your increased heartbeats due to your love
of exercise.
Written by: Comr Chris Uche Legacy
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