Amazing Human Body

30 Nov Amazing Human Body

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You may have said it or even heard people say, ‘the human body is amazing!’ This is undoubted whether your looking at how the body is made up or just fascinated buy what is going on inside. So for this blog post I thought I would share with you some amazing human body facts.

Amazing parts of the body:

• The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle (muscle of the jaw for chewing)
• Muscles normally account for 40% of one’s body weight
• There are 230 joints in the body
• There are 206 bones inside the body
• Your body is 70% water
• Your brain sends messages at the rate of 240 mph (386.23 km/h)
• Here are 10 million nerve cells in your brain
• The femur/thigh bone is the longest bone in our body

Amazing functions inside the human body:

• You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown
• The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle (muscle of the jaw for chewing)
• Sleeping less than 7 hours each night reduces your life expectancy
• You can go without eating for weeks without succumbing, but eleven days is tops for going without sleep
• Your bones, pound for pound, are 4 times stronger than concrete
• The human body consists of over 600 muscles
• You use 200 muscles to take one step

Its crazy to think that is only a few facts but there is no doubt about the human body is amazing and what goes on inside it is incredible. So now your equipped with some interesting facts about the human body, what you choose to do with it is up to you!