Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Your Health IQ

True or False???

1. More than half the bones in the human body are in the hands and feet.
2. Bones are connected to bones by tendons.
3. The largest artery in your body is the aorta, which leads to the heart. It is almost the diameter of a garden hose.
4.Exercise helps your bones to grow and increase in density.
5. The heart is the size of an average adult foot.
6.You can detect water on an X-ray.
7. A newborn baby has 350 bones, but a fully-grown adult has only 206.
8. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
9. The beating sound of the heart is created by valves opening and closing.
10. There are no muscles in your pinkie fingers (the muscles that move them are in your hands and forearms).
11. Cup for cup, broccoli has twice as much Vitamin C as an orange and close to the calcium of milk.
12. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
13. The “red eyes” you see in photographs come from reflections off the back of your eyeball.

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