Monday, 12 May 2014

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT YOUR BODY

Bones:

More than 200 bones are fit together to form your skeleton.
This frame gives your body strength and protects the soft parts inside.
Without a skeleton you can not stand.
Together your two hands contains more than one-quarter of the bones in your body..

Muscles: 

There are about 650 muscles in your body, mostly attached to bones. 
Every movement you make depends on muscles. You use about 200 different muscles Just

walking.You use about 15 muscles when you smile
Your tongue is a group of eight muscles that helps you eat & speak. 

Senses: 

Your senses of smell and taste works together, although your sense of Smell is 20,000 more sensitive than your sense of taste!
(To know how much your sense of smell affects what you taste, try blocking your nose, can you taste the different between a carrot and a cucumber? ) 

Eyes:

Your eyes are set apart , so each eye sees a slightly different picture and your brain puts them together 
(Try closing one eye and pointing at something , keep your finger still, look through the other eye are you still pointing at the same thing?) 
Do you know most people blink about 15 times in one minute?

Skin and hair :

Your hands are so sensitive to touch . 
Each fingertip contains about 100 touch receptor.
Your skin is elastic and it will pull back to its original shape. But as you get older , it become less elastic , so people develop wrinkles. 
Your hair grows from hair follicles in the skin. Round follicles produces straight hair , while oval follicles produces hair that curls . 
Hair grows on all parts of your skin , expect for the soles of your feet , the palm of your hand and your lips
Your hair grows about 0.4(1cm) in each month.
The roots are alive , but above the surface of your skin, the hair are dead. 

Brain Power:

Your brain is your body's control center it makes it possible for you to think and move. 
you use your brain to speak , see, hear, touch and taste things. it works all day and all night , even when you are asleep. 

Functions of the brain: 
* The front part of the brain is linked with personality 
* The top part deals with movement *Semi back side deals with touch 
* Sight is controlled right at the back(ogo) 
* The sides deals with hearing , smell and tastes * The Reddish area is linked with coordinations 
The brain us soft, like jelly . the bones of the skull protects its from bumps. 

LEFT OR RIGHT ?

In right - handed people the left side of their brain is responsible for facts, figures and languages. The right side controls the ability to draw and make music. But for the left - handed people this may be reversed.

No comments:

Post a Comment

FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR COMMENTS