- In one square inch of skin lies four yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, three million cells and three yards of blood vessels.
- In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost one ton of weight one yard off the ground.
- Your liver performs over 500 different functions.
- Your heart beats 40 million times per year.
- Your heart beats 3,000 million times in the average lifetime and pumps 40 million gallons of blood.
- Your blood travels 60,000 miles per day.
- Placed end to end, all your body’s blood vessels would measure about 62,000 miles.
- Your brain sends messages at 240 mph.
- About 400 gallons of blood flows through your kidney’s daily.
- 50,000 cells in your body die every 6 seconds and 50,000 new cells are born.
You can see that it is very important that your body is given the best fuel (nutrients) available for those new cells to survive and be healthy. From this information you can see that your body is fearfully and wonderfully made. You can do something to help maintain that wonderful Body.
As you probably know, we are facing many health issues today! Good health is a choice, your choice. You only have one life so protect it.
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