10 Facts Related to Health

Some interesting but realistic facts about your overall health and well-being.

1. Getting in your fruits and veggies can help the body produce its own form of Aspirin. After a study done by the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, participants who ate fruit and  vegetables containing benzoic acid, could produce their own salicylic acid. This is the main ingredient in aspirin that makes aspirin an anti-inflammatory pain reliever. 
2. Colds are not caused by being wet or cold. They are caused by viruses, that have nothing to  do with cold temperatures. However, in cold temperatures, people are more inclined to spend time together indoors, thereby more easily transmitting the virus from one person to another.
3. Watching yourself in a mirror while running on a treadmill, will make your workout go faster.
4. The myth that spinach is extremely rich in iron, is the result of a printing error. Many decades ago, a table indicating nutritional values of certain food types, put the decimal point, indicating the iron content of spinach, one position too far to the right, thereby increasing its supposed iron content tenfold. Despite the mistake being rectified 70 years ago, public perception still has not followed suit.
5. Three quarters of all the food we eat on this planet come from eight types of grains : maize, rice, wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, millet and rye. 
6. Your kitchen sink is dirtier than your bathroom sink. There are approximately 500,000 bacteria lurking around your drain alone. Over 50 million bacteria in a single colony can live on one sponge.
7. The rat and the mouse are far more dangerous to humans than any other animals. They carry at least 20 pathogens that cause different diseases. It is estimated that they have caused the deaths of more people in the last thousand years than all wars in the world put together.
8. Using a diary for weight-loss purposes can double a person’s weight loss efforts.
9. Sexologists can determine a woman’s orgasm history, solely by the way she walks.
10. Walking either in water, against the wind, or wearing a backpack burns approximately 50 more calories an hour.