Your Amazing Body

No.1 What Percentage of Your DNA Do You Share With a Banana?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 1 What percentage of your DNA do you share with a banana? Humans share about 50% of their DNA with bananas. Your DNA is about: 99.5% the same as any other human 97% the same as a chimpanzee 90% the same as a cat (our common ancestor... Read more...
No.2 How Many Cells Does Your Body Create Every Second?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 2 How many cells does your body create every second? Your body produces 25 million new cells each second. So every 5 minutes, you produce more cells than there are people in the world! It gets even more astounding. Our bodies contain trillions of... Read more...
No.3 How Many Miles of Blood Vessels Are There in the Average Human Body?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 3 How many miles of blood vessels are there in the average human body? The 60,000 miles of blood vessels inside the average human body, called the vascular system, would circumnavigate Earth two and a half times! These blood vessels are vulnerable to... Read more...
No.4 How Many Hairs Do We Have On Our Body Compared to a Chimpanzee?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 4 How many hairs do we have on our bodies compared to a chimpanzee? We have the same amount of hair on our bodies as a chimpanzee. But most are so fine that they are invisible. Hair colour helps determine how dense the... Read more...
No.5 How Many People Are Colour Blind When They Are Born?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 5 How many people are colour blind when they are born? Almost all babies are colour blind when they are born, so for the first week or so they only see black and white. But in as little as a week they begin... Read more...
No.6 How Much Heat Does the Human Body Give Off Every 30 Minutes?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 6 How much heat does the human body give off every 30 minutes? Enough to bring 4 pints (1.87 litres) of water to the boil. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, drinking just five glasses of water daily decreases the risk... Read more...
No.7 How Much Urine Does Your Bladder Hold?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 7 How much urine, on average, does your bladder hold? About 500 ml (two cups or a can of soft drink) – somewhat more for a man. But the urge to urinate is triggered when the bladder contains about 200ml. You make about... Read more...
No.8 How Long Does Blood Take to Travel Through the Vascular System?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 8   How long does blood take to travel through the vascular (circulatory) system? Blood takes just 20 seconds to circulate throughout your entire vascular system – arteries and veins! And only eight seconds for it to go the brain and back. Your... Read more...
No.9 How Many Sperm Cells Does The Average Man Create in a Minute?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 9   How many sperm cells does the average man create in a minute? A man makes about 1,500 sperm cells a second, 90,000 a minute, and up to 300 million a day. Each sperm, produced by the testes, takes about seventy-two days... Read more...
No. 10 How Many Senses Do You Have?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 10   How many senses do you have? We are told we have five senses – sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell. But consider these, which scientists now rate as separate senses. Proprioception:  Close your eyes and touch your nose. You ‘automatically’ know... Read more...
No.11 How Fast Do Nerve Impulses Travel To and From the Brain?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 11   How fast do nerve impulses travel to and from the brain? Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. That’s faster than a Formula 1 racing car. Within the brain, the impulses... Read more...
No.12 How Many Different Hormones Do You Have?
YOUR AMAZING BODY How much do you know about your amazing body? You are more remarkable than you ever imagined! And some of these amazing answers will help you live longer and age more slowly. 15 INTERESTING FACTS AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES IN DAILY PARTS YOUR AMAZING BODY NO. 12   How fast do nerve impulses travel to and from the brain? Nerve impulses travel to and from the brain at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. That’s faster than a Formula 1 racing car. Within the brain, the impulses... Read more...