Health Facts
Coughs clock in at about 60 mph.
The average person expels flatulence 14 times each day.
When a person weighing 150 lbs jogs 3 miles, the cumulative impact on each foot is greater than 150 tons.
After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before anyone notices you are balding.
A simple, moderately severe sunburn damages the blood vessels extensively.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself.
Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair.
By 60 years of age, 60-percent of men and 40-percent of women will snore.
Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest.
Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
A new baby usually deprives each of it’s parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year.
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
Earwax production is necessary for good ear health.
Eight hours in a smoky bar breathing second-hand smoke is the equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes.
In 2016, approximately 16.6% of the adults in the US were smokers. In 2005, approximately 20.9% of the adults in the US were smokers.
Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
Epilepsy affects about 2.5 million people in the US.
When tests for speed and accuracy are given, people who stay awake continuously for 20-25 hours have similar problems as people who have a blood alcohol level of 0.10%.
Fevers are controlled by the part of the brain called the hypothalamus.
An estimated 20.5 million people in the US older than 40 years have a cataract in either eye. It is estimated that 30.1 million people will have cataracts by 2020.
Aphasia is the name of speech and language problems caused by brain injury.
Approximately 160 million people in the US wear glasses or contact lenses.
Every year 27 million people in the US benefit from pain relief, sedation and unconsciousness from anesthetics.
About 30 million people (10% of the population) in the US have functionally significant hearing loss.
The average (median) amount of sleep each day by university students was 7.75 hrs (in 1969); 7.13 hrs (in 1979), 6.75 hrs (in 1989); 6.65 hrs (in 2001).
Bipolar disorder, a serious brain disease that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, and functioning, affects approximately 2.3 million adults in the U.S. or about 1.2% of the population.
Depression occurs in 2% of elementary school-aged children and 4-8% of adolescents.
About 100 million Americans need eye glasses.
As many as one in five Americans will be affected by a mental illness sometime in their lives.
12.5 billion aspirin tablets, gelcaps and caplets are consumed each year in the US.
A 19-year-old man died after smoking 100 cigarettes and a 21-year-old man was seriously poisoned after smoking 80 cigarettes during a "smoking contest".
Americans spend $11 billion each year for glasses and contact lenses.
A severe lack of vitamin A can result in night blindness, the inability to see in low light conditions.