Interesting trivia

HERE are some remarkable and attention-grabbing bits of medical and general factoid that could enrich your cerebral armamentarium and protect your health and future.

Did you know that at least 99 percent of the food supplement hype is just that: hype, without genuine scientific basis, useless products that only serve one purpose: for the manufacturers/dealers to “rob” you of your hard-earned money. This includes alkaline water, fruit juices which they claim could cure a host of diseases from including cancer, stem cell therapy to bring back youth, bowel cleansing, chelation treatment, detoxifying therapy, cell-regeneration pills or potion, breast-enhancing or penis enlarging drugs, etc.

Arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) starts when a child is five or six years of age, and not after fifty.

Cholesterol and saturated fats (from pork, beef, eggs and other dairy products) have killed more people around the world than all the battles and wars combined.

Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

Proper diet and daily exercise are so effective many persons with high blood pressure and diabetes have been able to discontinue their medications and still effectively control their blood pressure and blood sugar, as long as they eat healthy and exercise every day.

Contrary to popular belief, fish do drown.

Dentists recommend that toothbrushes be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

The juice inside young coconuts, and other natural fluids, are undergoing laboratory investigation as possible substitute for blood plasma.

Eating coconut containing food items and coconut oil regularly increases blood cholesterol and triglycerides. Virgin olive oil and canola oil are healthier alternatives.

Donkeys are said to kill more people annually than plane crashes.

Eating brown rice, instead of the white variety, can help prevent and controls arthritis pains.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley’s gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

The plaques that cause blockage inside the arteries are as hard as teeth or bones.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother’s first flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.

The energy drinks on the market are unhealthy, even dangerous. Deaths have been reported by the US-FDA, and have banned some of them.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Apples, healthier than caffeine, are most efficient at waking you up in the morning.

Eating vegetables with every meal, among other healthy lifestyle practices, boost the immune system, protect us from diseases, and maximizes our longevity.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Dr. Robert C. Atkins, faithfully eating his own

famous Atkins’ Diet of very low carbohydrates and high-protein, high-fat, died of cardiomyopathy.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike

annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Secondhand cigarette smokes contains 4000 chemicals, 200 of them known poisons like benzene, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn’t like being seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was said to be afraid of mice.

Self-mediating with antibiotics, in the absence of a valid medical justification, is dangerous to the body, transforming the bacteria into antibiotic-resistant germs. Antibiotics should not be taken without a physician supervision.

Pearls melt in vinegar (acetic acid).

Instead of using toxic chemicals to clean our home and kitchen, using vinegar as cleaning agent is safer and good for ecology. Vinegar also removes calcium deposits and kills germs. And it is organic.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. Very sad, indeed.

Pinot Noir red wine has the highest level of resveratrol, the cardio-protective antioxidant from grape skin.

Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word “criminal.” The second was William Jefferson Clinton.

Cardiac surgeons use surgical loop magnifying lenses to do coronary bypass surgery (joining two

arteries with super fine sutures) on arteries as small as the size of round tooth picks.

Turtles can breathe through their butts.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world’s nuclear weapons combined.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

In general, people seem to fear spiders more than they do death.

Heart attack can cause sudden death in people without any obvious symptoms.

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump.

Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

A snail can sleep for three years.

The electric chair was said to be invented by a dentist. And the dental chair by an electrician? No way.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,

including their eyebrows and eyelashes as part of their ritual.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

“Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Eating five to six times a day is healthier for us … providing our body with stable and consistent level of blood sugar, without up and down swing of serum glucose, provided we do eat within our total calorie intake per day and not going  beyond it. If we are on a 2000-calories diet, we can eat 400 calories five times a day…

“Go,” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Consuming junk foods more than once a month, like the high-fat, high calorie hamburgers and French Fries in Fast Food restaurants, damage our DNA, especially among children, leading to increased risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and cancer.

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

One person in the United States dies of a heart attack every 60 seconds.

Processed foods (hotdogs, other meats or vegetables) could cause cancer and heart disease.

Soft drinks cause metabolic syndrome (a cluster of risk

factors that cause high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, etc), especially among children. Soft drinks, cola or uncola,

regular or diet, caffeinated or decaf, are all toxic to our body.

Take good care of your body. It’s the only one you’ve got! Life without it is impossible.

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